Can phones be useful without hurting us?
>>108486189what is love?
>>108486189Only if their displays are made out of e-ink because blue light harms your eyesight and causes myopia
>>108486189hurt as in inflict pain? or damage in some wayI mean it's telecommunication over radio signals that we can't hear or perceive, I don't see how they could hurt us at all
>>108486271baby don't hurt me.
>>108486189If they used free software, maybe.
>>108486778don't hurt me
>>108486369>a chink put a blue led less than 10cm away from his eye for few hours>goes blind>???>BLUE LIGHT GIVE CANCERexplain your mental retardation to me please
>>108486830no more
>>108486189Yes. Just return to calling and SMS only.Problem solved.
>>108486369>>108486836the sun emits 1000x more blue light faggots. chinese are myopic cause they forced to sit in classroom all day
FWIW einstein would go off to a cabin without a telephone because the telephone was annoying and distractingwe don't even need mobile phones, let alone smartphones.
>carrying around a 24/7 attention grabbing casinop can be useful without hurting us?
>>108486189It just needs to be used as a computer for practical stuff. Email, calendar, weather, calls, texts, camera, maps (with businesses etc), encylopedia and (cloud) file management. People should have no or barely any interest in social media and games. Perhaps only retro style games and forums as the most advanced online activities. Our culture should also be that you just don't use your phone when you don't need it. But well, unfortunately we let tech olicharchs make us addicted and glued to them. I doubt, though, that how we interact with this technology right is not very tenable. It will change soon.
>>108487196blue light is scam created by glasses companies to sell another option to people who wants to see normaly
>>108486189Smartphones are getting enshitified for profit, both Apple & Google want all smartphones to be cash cows so they are milking it for all they can get out of them
landlines are unusable due to constant spam callsand dumbphones are unusable due to killing 2G service in many places.so all of this is irrelevent now. if you need a phone, you have no choice but to use a smartphone, unless you want to use a VOIP service.
They already were
>>108486189My phone is useful and doesn't hurt me but that's because I have self control. The problem is there are 8 billion other people on earth and most of them are retards with no self control so they ruin everything
>>108486189Anything that gives humanity too much power and freedom will end up being their demiseThat's just how we work
>unlimited access to unfiltered information We need to go back
Just get rid of social media
>>108486189If you delete all social media, software such as YouTube, get your news feed from unbiased/neutral source, delete baked in tracking software using ADB and purely just use the phone as a communication tool and web content viewer then yes.
>>108491439And what would you do for fun?
>>108486189No. No pain, no gain.
>>108491567Go outside
>>108491567You can install an ereader app and read a book if you must. Otherwise go outside or do something non digital.
>>108486189Disallowing posting anything from phones would solve the majority of the issues of the modern internet
>>108491948Free speech
>>108487487That battle was lost around 2010
>>108491439>social media>such as YouTube,
>>1084922324chan is social media
>>108486189Yes it's called keep it locked up at home and use it solely as a remote voice aid to flip switches for shit in your life and a mobile authenticator platform, and as backup internet / secondary communication unit in the event of emergencies / disasters.
>>108486189phone are finethe content is what does the damagewe need jail time for the executives who are hiring psychologists with the intent of addicting children
Keep it in a Faraday case when not in use.
>>108493144Basically this.I'm going with minimalist launcher, grayscale, no notifications, no social media and trying to create as much friction as possible.I'm tired of wasting my life on screens
>>108494183people on here say this and then spend 12+ hours on their computer lol :P
>>108492900Sure, if you are a zoomer
You can try these minimalist phones like LP or Mudita. They are not very engaging. And use the internet on the big devices like your pc, laptop or middle sized tablet
Yes. Soon we'll be able to run assistants locally. Then you'll be able to talk to it, if you happen to be a power user, like a true IA (well, sort of). It could be great. Imagine,>any thread on /g/ involving macfags, Pinko?>Yes. Currently there are 2 threads on 4chan's technology board where Mac and Apple-related subjects are being discussed. >good, good, call everyone a faggot and leave, please
>>108491948By that logic only a Solar Storm (in the way science fiction portrays it, not how it actually happens) could save us, then. And briefly.
>>108486189Phones are fine, those are pocket computers
>>108487196Yes, but naturally the blue goes away as the sun sets. But we have blue light all day and night long now
>>108500477doesn't the light literally need to be red and near the ground for it to not block melatonin? i don't think like, f.lux or some glasses are going to do the job T B H but maybe im wrong
>>108487196Sometimes I forget there's actual retards in the world.
>>108486189>Can phones be useful without hurting us?>Can swords be useful without hurting us?>Can books be useful without hurting us?>Can guns be useful without hurting us?The real question should be>Can humans be useful without hurting each other
>>108486189Still waiting on web3 to decentralize the www. Any day now.
