Because this topic came up in c/technology and I was wondering.

Would this be feasible? How bad would it be to your social life?

I’m looking for these scenarios:

  1. No smartphone, but have a dumbphone and a computer

  2. No phone at all, but have a computer

  3. No smartphone, but have a dumbphone, no computer

  4. Nothing at all

  • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
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    1 month ago

    it’s not even about a smartphone, it’s about being allowed to access services with said smartphone.

    when the ticket machine was removed from a train station in rural sweden and replaced with a note on how to buy tickets online, it instantly locked three types of people out: people who don’t have a smartphone, people who don’t have a payment card, and tourists. because it required online verification, you basically needed a swedish phone number and id to buy tickets.

    this was about eight years ago, so smartphone penetration was lower, but i still think about the people i met at the train station while i desperately tried to order tickets over the phone and kept getting stuck in their automated phone tree. they were basically stuck there.