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hunter

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14. All those "usage areas" seem unpleasant...

Mon Dec 9, 2024, 09:11 PM

Dec 9

Swish payments, bank login, login to e-government, and access to medical records via Vårdguiden 1177.

Do I even want to know what a "Swish payment" is???

I'm very good at loosing or breaking personal electronics such as phones, cameras, laptops, etc., so they have to be cheap. Rugged slab type smart phones are not cheap.

My current flip phone was free, diverted from the e-waste bins. It replaced a flip phone I dropped in a fish pond. (All I had to do was transfer the sim card, which was not damaged.)

The phone previous to that, I lost. Or maybe it was stolen. Someone found it and even answered once when I called and then hung up. For whatever reason I guess they decided it would be better to throw it away than return it.

I had a slab-type smart phone before that which did not survive a long fall onto rocks.

Etc.

All my medical records before 2014 or so are apparently lost or inaccessible which actually makes me kind of happy. I feel no need to explain some of my scars to doctors, therapists, or anyone else.

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Can't afford a smartphone? That's going to cost you. [View all] Celerity Dec 9 OP

I despise every corporation in the world trying get me to install an app on my phone ... dawg Dec 9 #1

I dread this XanaDUer2 Dec 9 #2

won't cost me anything. saves me lots ShepKat Dec 9 #3

You are missing the point. Many things will become (many already have) app-ONLY. Here in Sweden, in order to use Celerity Dec 9 #4

Well, Sweden actually helps their poor sagetea Dec 9 #5

no point missed ShepKat Dec 9 #8

All those "usage areas" seem unpleasant... hunter Dec 9 #14

Swish is just a mobile payment system, like Venmo, Cash App, Apple Pay, etc Celerity Dec 9 #16

I am happy for the blessings these technologies brought you -- but please don't forget the rest of us cadoman Dec 9 #20

I have no control over the systemic roll-out and use of technology. I am leaving no one behind. Celerity Dec 10 #24

There are many downtowns where you literally cannot park legally without downloading an app bhikkhu Dec 9 #9

I do not have any cash apps or even an ATM or even a debit card. LeftInTX Dec 10 #48

I just ran into a side issue of this the other day. My fairly new (last year) 5G android niyad Dec 9 #6

Monitoring our bathroom use lame54 Dec 9 #7

Haves and have nots Johnny2X2X Dec 9 #10

It's really tough in some rural areas to get a reliable signal. I have a choice of one carrier. No allegorical oracle Dec 10 #38

Yes, the industry is focused on $ Johnny2X2X Dec 10 #39

lol. Very true...but if we get a bit more "modernized" may that will change. nt allegorical oracle Dec 10 #43

Probably why "We're not going back" wasn't the greatest of messages Wolver Dec 9 #11

I'd gladly go back to being able to use cash to pay for goods and services cadoman Dec 9 #19

My grocery store app saves me tons. I feel bad for those who don't use it. PeaceWave Dec 9 #12

cost of grocery store app jaxxon20 Dec 10 #32

This message was self-deleted by its author Mosby Dec 10 #36

It's the same with fast food apps, which I don't use. LeftInTX Dec 10 #44

You're never alone with your smart phone. CoopersDad Dec 9 #13

Something that needs to be addressed about smart phone use canetoad Dec 9 #15

The goal is to track everyone like cattle soandso Dec 9 #17

Yup, it basically pipelines everybody to a certain brand peregrinus Dec 10 #31

so glad awareness of this is being raised -- it is arguably worse than voter id laws cadoman Dec 9 #18

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Well, Hi Sunshine!! GP6971 Dec 10 #22

Haven't seen you for a couple of days. GP6971 Dec 10 #23

"They don't have the cash to drop $1k on a smartphone ..." mahatmakanejeeves Dec 10 #25

I think about this all the time with Safeway's 4U system Sympthsical Dec 10 #26

We Have That, Too ProfessorGAC Dec 10 #27

Yeah, I think Jewel and Safeway are both Albertson's Sympthsical Dec 10 #28

Jewel, Definitely... ProfessorGAC Dec 10 #33

I miss Jewel Sympthsical Dec 10 #34

Dominick's Long Gone ProfessorGAC Dec 10 #37

That's decent. I think our HEB may have done away with digital deals. Or they may have stopped advertising them in the LeftInTX Dec 10 #45

Our Stores... ProfessorGAC Dec 10 #47

Safeway used to be one of the moonscape Dec 10 #41

nothing a crowbar can't fix peregrinus Dec 10 #29

There won't be any more free "Obama phones" for the poor either. Clouds Passing Dec 10 #30

I hate it when websites close down and you have to use apps. milestogo Dec 10 #35

FB is soooo much easier to create and share events than updating websites! LeftInTX Dec 10 #46

There are a lot of 'excuses' GenThePerservering Dec 10 #40

In Paris they are free. Raine1967 Dec 10 #42