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[ approximately 160 seconds of mild ranting ]
This is only waffle
It rarely occurs to me that some people don't have laptops or home computers or even tablets; they use a phone for everything. I went to one of my local villages to ask the post-master what telephone network they personally use because I was having trouble with getting a signal. It turned out that my service provider was switching off 3G, by Government edict, and failed to adequately provide good coverage for 4G and 5G in its stead.
At that village shop they also have a cafe, which I fail to see as financially viable but that is by the by. Stereotypically there are two age groups who work in cafes, young people and semi-retired people (people who have not recognised their true monetary worth and people who just need some pin-money - yes, you are right, there are rarely semi-retired men working in cafes). I asked the two young people what network they use for data download.
'We just use the WiFi wherever we are,' they chorused.
I was stunned. Wait, what? There was something I wasn't understanding. Slowly it dawned on me that they were 'information scavengers' not caring for privacy and eschewing focused intent outside of self-publicity. I already knew that, I suppose. I just didn't want to. Like everyone else, if I don't keep myself involved in something I will just make another heuristic to later use to breeze past something I don't really have the time to dig through.
A couple of months ago, I recognised that there may actually be Open University undergraduates that only use their phone to access the OU website and even do their assignments, whole essays, on them. To me, accessing the internet and interacting only with a phone is like experiencing the world by looking through a keyhole. I have begun to recognise how mobile phones have impacted on people's capacity to communicate and socialise; short texts in response to emails is a giveaway.
Here is a fix for the uninitiated. Get a cheap second-hand laptop from Ebay for about sixty or seventy of your country's monetary units and buy a MiFi (a dongle that accepts SIM cards for another twenty units. Take the SIM out of your phone and put it into the MiFi and access the internet on a device that allows proper typing. My phone plan is eighteen GB money units for unlimited data, texts and talking per month. However, I have two SIMs because I will not allow myself to be constrained by technology and a blind, and I have to say, ovine, existence in a field that has been ploughed by others before me. That means one of my SIMs permanently lives in a MiFi and one SIM in my phone. Total cost per month 27GBP. Before we had mobile phones this would have been an intolerable amount to spend each month on a innovation that replaced something that was free in libraries; books. It could have been a fad and we might all have been salvageable but now the governments across the world have made it a locked-in necessity, for what? Chit-chat? Online porn? Anonymous abuse? Oh wait, I have it, never having to leave your house.
This is only waffle
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I am not on YouTube or social media
[ approximately 160 seconds of mild ranting ]
This is only waffle
It rarely occurs to me that some people don't have laptops or home computers or even tablets; they use a phone for everything. I went to one of my local villages to ask the post-master what telephone network they personally use because I was having trouble with getting a signal. It turned out that my service provider was switching off 3G, by Government edict, and failed to adequately provide good coverage for 4G and 5G in its stead.
At that village shop they also have a cafe, which I fail to see as financially viable but that is by the by. Stereotypically there are two age groups who work in cafes, young people and semi-retired people (people who have not recognised their true monetary worth and people who just need some pin-money - yes, you are right, there are rarely semi-retired men working in cafes). I asked the two young people what network they use for data download.
'We just use the WiFi wherever we are,' they chorused.
I was stunned. Wait, what? There was something I wasn't understanding. Slowly it dawned on me that they were 'information scavengers' not caring for privacy and eschewing focused intent outside of self-publicity. I already knew that, I suppose. I just didn't want to. Like everyone else, if I don't keep myself involved in something I will just make another heuristic to later use to breeze past something I don't really have the time to dig through.
A couple of months ago, I recognised that there may actually be Open University undergraduates that only use their phone to access the OU website and even do their assignments, whole essays, on them. To me, accessing the internet and interacting only with a phone is like experiencing the world by looking through a keyhole. I have begun to recognise how mobile phones have impacted on people's capacity to communicate and socialise; short texts in response to emails is a giveaway.
Here is a fix for the uninitiated. Get a cheap second-hand laptop from Ebay for about sixty or seventy of your country's monetary units and buy a MiFi (a dongle that accepts SIM cards for another twenty units. Take the SIM out of your phone and put it into the MiFi and access the internet on a device that allows proper typing. My phone plan is eighteen GB money units for unlimited data, texts and talking per month. However, I have two SIMs because I will not allow myself to be constrained by technology and a blind, and I have to say, ovine, existence in a field that has been ploughed by others before me. That means one of my SIMs permanently lives in a MiFi and one SIM in my phone. Total cost per month 27GBP. Before we had mobile phones this would have been an intolerable amount to spend each month on a innovation that replaced something that was free in libraries; books. It could have been a fad and we might all have been salvageable but now the governments across the world have made it a locked-in necessity, for what? Chit-chat? Online porn? Anonymous abuse? Oh wait, I have it, never having to leave your house.