[hughrr]

I tried moving to a proper dumb phone, a Nokia 105, a few years back. I found out that it’s a massive social disadvantage, very isolating and means you have to carry more crap around all the time and keep more context in your head. It’s ten times more difficult to adapt to changes without information at hand. Experiment ended after three months and I’m glad it did.

I get the ideological thing here but realistically smart phones are a really really good bit of tech and I adore mine.

[FpUser]

Ouch. I do have smartphone but do not have data plan. Use it strictly as a phone, camera and offline GPS. It has close to zero social value to me. If I want to socialize I either talk to my friends on Skype from my PC or just visiting in person.

[Lamad123]

No music?

[FpUser]

I have dedicated systems at home and in the car. When I am out I do not play it.

[ph2082]

FM Radio ;).

[hughrr]

So you like listening to adverts ;)

[ya_throw]

> keep more context in your head.

That's the point. I call it "knowing what you need to be in control of your life".

> It's ten times more difficult to adapt to changes without information at hand.

I understand - for me, the argument goes that if I find myself needing to frantically google something, then I'm already on the wrong path. I accept this means that some lifestyles are not possible. Personally, I prefer it.

[hughrr]

The issue is your mind is a terrible place to keep context because it’s unreliable and untrustworthy. Things get in the wrong order, warp into different things and sometimes even completely disappear. Any level of complexity to handle and you need to offload some of the load somewhere else lest you screw up. I’m known to be incredibly reliable and organised and that’s only because of the knowledge of above.

It’s not about frantically googling stuff. Last weekend the trains here went to hell here in the UK and the information at hand by the staff on how to get home was completely wrong. I managed to source information from elsewhere and that made the difference between me getting home at 21:00 or 23:30. Similarly when plan A fails (oh crap the restaurant we were going to is gone) then you can adapt to a plan B quickly with a good outcome.