• 0x0@lemmy.zip
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    3 hours ago

    A big problem is that people need smartphones for so much of modern life.

    Do you though? They’re convenient, for sure, but you can also use a dumbphone and a laptop.

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      50 minutes ago

      Yea, just gunna carry my laptop around with me everywhere. And that’s not even talking about all the nonsense on laptops that most people can’t deal with.

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      2 hours ago

      How the fuck would I access my bank then? All banks literally require their apps to access the account or sometimes even open the account, nevermind actually pay for anything or get a debit or credit card.

      >Inb4 some American downvotes because they forget the rest of the world exists

      We get it, Americans use cash in America, and they use magnetic stripe cards and cheques and all these other technologies that were phased out in rest of the world before I was even born, but that’s not really an argument to make on a global platform.

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        2 hours ago

        All banks literally require

        In your part of the world…

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          2 hours ago

          In most of the world that isn’t 1 country that starts with ‘United States’ and ends with ‘of America’