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Re: Disabling answering the phone.

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On Wed, 17 Apr 2024, Sylvia Else wrote:

> On 13/04/2024 7:44 pm, D wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, 12 Apr 2024, John McCue wrote:
>> 
>>> Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>> 
>>>> 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 Über taxis so I pay about 
>> 3x the price with a regular taxi, and I also miss the wireless sharing 
>> functionality.
>> 
>> But in many cases it is possible to Stallman yourself an Übertaxi.
>
> Increasingly many things just assume you have a smart phone, and that you 
> want to use it to control your purchase. The Tesla Powerwall 2 is one such.
>
> As originally supplied it also had a web interface to which one could connect 
> directly, and which could be used to exert some control over it, but Tesla 
> have increasingly locked that down, and now it's pretty much smartphone or 
> nothing.
>
> Sylvia.
>

I know, I ran into that trap once, and ever since, I always make sure in 
the rare cases when I buy a new gadget, that I can control it without a 
smart phone.

In emergencies, it is possible to install an android emulator on my laptop 
and use it, but it is very cumbersome and the thought of having a GB-level 
VM just to use some bad service or gadget make me sick, so I seldom do it.

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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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