FWIW you’re talking to someone who doesn’t even have a credit score. You might see such things as a self-handicap, but I consider it an accomplishment that I’m very proud of.

This is because conservatives are technologically impaired.

To be fair, I don’t go around in public telling everyone “I don’t have a cell phone btw”. So I suppose we are easy to miss.

You and I must live in two different societies then. I work with at least two other individuals who also don’t have a cell phone (not just smart phone, but any cellular device), one of whom is also a millennial. My SIP number has never had any issues with online service auth.

If I were stuck in that position, then I would not hesitate to choose the postage method. That being an option does not comport with the assertion “if a person didn’t have a smart phone they literally can’t use it”.

I’m surprised to find somebody with some sense around here.

I have never used a block or mute feature on any site or any service in all my life. It is wild to me that people today actually use those features, let alone to constrict the ideas that they allow themselves to be exposed to.

I conducted a fun little experiment over at /c/[email protected] in which I posited the question: “If it were possible, how would you deprogram an extreme conservative?”. I then waited twenty hours before posting “If it were possible, how would you deprogram an extreme progressive?”. The difference in reception between the questions exposed the intense lib-left bias that is pervasive on Lemmy, a byproduct of people constantly walling themselves into self-made echochambers.

Laughs in no phone

The smart ones will be unaffected as nouveau, as distributed through package managers, remains unaffected.

And the really smart ones don’t even have nvidia hardware to begin with.

Specifically:

When you plug them into USB into your PC or MAC, they no longer appear as external drives.

For anyone else who’s confused at the title

A millennial not having a cell phone is such an unimaginable concept?

For whatever it’s worth, I do use SIP software telephony in order to make calls and receive texts, so in that way I do technically have a “phone”. But what I’m fundamentally rejecting here is the notion that I must be compelled to carry around a device in my pocket infested with proprietary malware.

As a percentage, what proportion of pregnancies do those scenarios comprise? What percentage of abortions are carried out simply as a form of birth control?

I have encountered various services

For example, some of these services would be… ?

Millennial, actually

The above being a rhetorical question, I just wanted to take a temperature of the room.

I have lived without a phone pretty much all my adult life. The experiment for me would be to get a phone and see what changes. In that way, I have answered it for myself and the answer is a clear “you don’t need a phone”.

I knew that anything from Lunduke wouldn’t be well received from ultra-left lemmy before I even opened this comments section.

You’re comment would have won me a swig in a game of “drink every time lemmy does XYZ”, assuming I were degenerate enough to imbibe alcohol.

Laughs in OpenPOWER

Not having endless hedonistic recreational sex in the first place? Is it really that difficult to remain abstinent?

Calendar

Non digital is sufficient. And if it must be digital for some reason, no you don’t specifically need to use a serf phone for that.

map

I get around just fine without proprietary tracking BS. Navit + Openstreetmaps pre-downloaded binary data + detachable USB GPS transceiver.

communication with partner

Softphones and SIP telephony are fine for this.

Sauce: I am a functioning adult who lives without a phone as a matter of principle.

Most of the population is choosing be enslaved by it. Buckle up.

Average people were only “thinking” about it for as long as it remained in the news cycle. Once the new cycle moved on, so did they.