I’m starting to head this direction, at least mobile-wise. I haven’t yet because trying to live life without a cell phone is just not pleasant, But the only thing I really use my cell phone for is Discord, Firefox, and the camera
Mobile gaming, which I primarily had got a phone in the first place for has gone down the tube, It seems like every mobile game can fit into one of 4 categories.
The live-action-style ones like Clash of Clans that you need money to progress in.
The simulation idlers Where you don’t actually do anything, You just upgrade every once in a while.
The match 3 clones where it disguises as a different game but the primary focus is matching,
The bleed you dry energy style games where every action you do costs some form of in-game energy. That takes real time to regenerate.
Used to be able to find puzzlers or simulation games that were outside of that genre, but you can’t really anymore. I’m still circulating the same 4 games from when I had an s9 8ish years ago.
Social media is thoroughly screwed. You can’t go on there without some sort of ideology being pushed at you or toxicity.
Voice-mails and messaging is hit or miss of whether or not it’s someone trying to scam you.
every application out there wants to harvest every bit of data about your life because almost no country has any type of actual regulation against the collection of personal data.
Every once in a while, I look back to see how feasible it would be to go without, but far too many services require a phone number. Any platform worth its salt uses some form of two-factor authentication, which generally is either text message or an app-based two-factor.
Hell, It’s hard enough finding a bank that doesn’t require a cell phone. I just dumped my last bank due to that reason. They reconsolidated into a slightly larger company, and when they did, that parent company decided that consumers shouldn’t have the ability to write their own checks. So if I wanted to write a check, I had to log into the phone app, and then select Send a check, wait four to six business days for the bank to actually send the check themselves, and then wait for the three to four days on top of that to actually receive payments. I closed the account as soon as I got confirmation my funds transfered
Indeed, they should have to figure something out though because I don’t see a future where people are carrying around such large devices all the time, who really wants to lug these things around? It’s miserable. I wanted the small, cool, well designed tech future, instead we got the future headed by a bunch of small minded dumbasses who just want you to have the most ad space available on your mobile device.
I suppose that I’ve never been big on mobile gaming to begin with makes it easier for me, and I prefer to do most of my browsing on an actual computer at home. I guess that is pretty old fashioned now though, but I honestly think it is so much healthier. No one is really engaged with the present anymore, everyone talks about what their device told them about what is going to happen tomorrow or whatever. I’m sure that’s by design as well because if people are all disengaged from the present they will not notice they are being totally robbed.
I’m starting to head this direction, at least mobile-wise. I haven’t yet because trying to live life without a cell phone is just not pleasant, But the only thing I really use my cell phone for is Discord, Firefox, and the camera
Mobile gaming, which I primarily had got a phone in the first place for has gone down the tube, It seems like every mobile game can fit into one of 4 categories.
Used to be able to find puzzlers or simulation games that were outside of that genre, but you can’t really anymore. I’m still circulating the same 4 games from when I had an s9 8ish years ago.
Social media is thoroughly screwed. You can’t go on there without some sort of ideology being pushed at you or toxicity.
Voice-mails and messaging is hit or miss of whether or not it’s someone trying to scam you.
every application out there wants to harvest every bit of data about your life because almost no country has any type of actual regulation against the collection of personal data.
Every once in a while, I look back to see how feasible it would be to go without, but far too many services require a phone number. Any platform worth its salt uses some form of two-factor authentication, which generally is either text message or an app-based two-factor.
Hell, It’s hard enough finding a bank that doesn’t require a cell phone. I just dumped my last bank due to that reason. They reconsolidated into a slightly larger company, and when they did, that parent company decided that consumers shouldn’t have the ability to write their own checks. So if I wanted to write a check, I had to log into the phone app, and then select Send a check, wait four to six business days for the bank to actually send the check themselves, and then wait for the three to four days on top of that to actually receive payments. I closed the account as soon as I got confirmation my funds transfered
Indeed, they should have to figure something out though because I don’t see a future where people are carrying around such large devices all the time, who really wants to lug these things around? It’s miserable. I wanted the small, cool, well designed tech future, instead we got the future headed by a bunch of small minded dumbasses who just want you to have the most ad space available on your mobile device.
I suppose that I’ve never been big on mobile gaming to begin with makes it easier for me, and I prefer to do most of my browsing on an actual computer at home. I guess that is pretty old fashioned now though, but I honestly think it is so much healthier. No one is really engaged with the present anymore, everyone talks about what their device told them about what is going to happen tomorrow or whatever. I’m sure that’s by design as well because if people are all disengaged from the present they will not notice they are being totally robbed.
For gaming on the go, I got an AYN Thor. Life changer. I even put YouTube onto it so it’s now essentially my entertainment device.