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Re: Disabling answering the phone.

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D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Apr 2024, John McCue wrote:
>> Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> wrote:
>>> How did we get to the point where one has to do a web search just to be
>>> able to answer the infernal device?
>>
>> No kidding!  Also I have a hard time hanging up the "smart"
>> phone.  These phones do not make using it as a phone easy.
>> I am not far from tossing it out the window and going to a
>> dumb phone.
> 
> Do it! I haven't had a smartphone for about 5 years or so and I love it! 
> The highest price I pay is not being able to get ?ber taxis so I pay about 
> 3x the price with a regular taxi

I never started using a smartphone, and I recently ran into my
first financial disadvantage resulting from that. I got a
Mastercard gift card as part of a promotion, which I'd made a
deliberate effort to obtain, and it turns out I need a smartphone
app to activate it. Old forum threads suggest that there used to be
a way to do it on their mastercardgift.com.au website, but that
seems to have gone because of course everyone has a smartphone now.

To be fair, so far I've only established that it can't be used
online without setting it up in the app, I still need to find an
appropriate time and place to try using it in-store.

But I'm still sticking to dumb phones. Only I stuffed up trying to
find a cheap 4G one with good reception - it won't talk to the
telco I use. Previous network-locked phones didn't care whether the
network they were locked to was accessed via an account with a
reseller using that phone network, but apparantly they've been
silently shifting the goalposts.

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Disabling answering the phone. Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2024-04-08 12:06 +1000
  Re: Disabling answering the phone. Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> - 2024-04-08 16:14 +0200
  Re: Disabling answering the phone. Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> - 2024-04-08 15:13 +0000
    Re: Disabling answering the phone. Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-04-08 22:23 +0000
      Re: Disabling answering the phone. Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2024-04-09 08:32 +1000
        Re: Disabling answering the phone. Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> - 2024-04-12 07:49 -0300
  Re: Disabling answering the phone. Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2024-04-09 16:56 +0300
  Re: Disabling answering the phone. John McCue <jmccue@neutron.jmcunx.com> - 2024-04-12 21:20 +0000
    Re: Disabling answering the phone. D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-04-13 11:44 +0200
      Re: Disabling answering the phone. not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-04-14 09:27 +1000
        Re: Disabling answering the phone. D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-04-14 20:46 +0200
          Re: Disabling answering the phone. not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-04-15 08:43 +1000
            Re: Disabling answering the phone. D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-04-15 12:22 +0200
      Re: Disabling answering the phone. Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2024-04-17 13:13 +1000
        Re: Disabling answering the phone. D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-04-17 11:07 +0200

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