Comment on My phone just stays forever on silent with most emergency sounds off

JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The only phone you get is a landline, a plastic Garfield whose eye open when you pick up the handset. So it is written, so shall it be.

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It could be a mobile. But it only makes calls and it costs 10 cents a minute to the caller.

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  • f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    …which is fine, until the ninjers start calling in death threats on your Garfield phone.

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  • ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The original StarTac was 90s, no?

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• SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cory Doctorow explained in one of his articles that the Amish don’t avoid technology indiscriminately, they weigh the harm against the use. His example was that it’s bad when electronic communication replaces face-to-face contact, but it’s no good either if you can’t contact a vet when your cow falls ill.

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was like “wow what a reasoned take, I like cory doctorow for basically everything he says”. Then I read your username and almost did a spit take. Lol

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  • modus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Amish communities can have phones if they vote for it amongst themselves. The one I saw was a community landline. They had just one in a little shed along the driveway.

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    • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, my understanding is that typically a shopkeeper or someone like that might have an old-style cell dumbphone, without the Facebooks and stuff.

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      • modus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Damn. I wish I were Amish.

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• Spooge@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One week of no porn and you’d come crawling back.

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Back in the ‘90’s if you go for a walk in a wooded area in the park you could find pornographic magazines with half the pages glued together.

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    • Spooge@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I experienced that one multiple occasions.

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    • Heliumfart@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Next to the cn rail tracks… I learned so much from those pages.

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    • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In the aughts, my first introduction to bondage was an unlabeled dvd I found on the side of the road.

      Wasn’t even the first time I’d found porn that way.

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  • cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You… you think that wasn’t around back then?

    In the 90s you just waited longer for one pic.

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    Not to mention magazines found in the forrest.

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    • Spooge@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Scribble vision, baby.

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  • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    VHS Tapes :)

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  • ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You don’t think people would instead, you know, start hooking up instead?

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    • Rumo161@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think you misunderstand the point of porn entirely.

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    • Spooge@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not the people that use Lemmy, I can tell you that much.

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• DrWorm@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mennonites wild be the closest but that entirely depends on the community.

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