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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by pkrasimirov on Friday May 03 2024, @08:12AM (3 children)

    by pkrasimirov (3358) Subscriber Badge on Friday May 03 2024, @08:12AM (#1355696)

    I cannot pay for anything or find my way in the city without my phone and internet on it. I cannot work. I cannot be found or communicated with. No internet means being unavailable to other people who depend on me, and all these people will be very worried until I am back online.

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  • (Score: 2) by Nuke on Wednesday May 08 2024, @11:49AM (2 children)

    by Nuke (3162) on Wednesday May 08 2024, @11:49AM (#1356193)

    Maybe your life today, not mine. I would not allow myself to be dependent on one thing like that, and I only switch my phone on to make calls anyway.

    • (Score: 2) by Common Joe on Thursday May 09 2024, @07:59PM (1 child)

      by Common Joe (33) <{common.joe.0101} {at} {gmail.com}> on Thursday May 09 2024, @07:59PM (#1356370) Journal

      Since maps aren't really sold much anymore, how do you travel in other cities without a map app on a cell phone?

      Tangential Info: I have terrible skills finding my way around a city without a map (even the one I live in), but I used to navigate just fine without a cell phone for decades. I just always kept maps with me. And in the places I lived in, you never wanted to wonder into the wrong neighborhoods or you might not come back out again, so knowing where you were was definitely necessary.

      • (Score: 2) by Nuke on Friday May 10 2024, @09:12AM

        by Nuke (3162) on Friday May 10 2024, @09:12AM (#1356424)

        Since maps aren't really sold much anymore

        Plenty on sale in the UK, in particular the excellent "landscape" ones by Ordnance Survey and the spiral bound city street maps by Geographers. Apart from that, my car has a built-in GPS based navigator, and the car is old enough (2006) that it does not report to anyone where I am going.