Often in the weekend papers somewhere there is a story that in one way or another involves the self-hatred of the habitual smartphone social media scroller (doom-scrolling)... and a (frustrated) desire to do something to alleviate the hold this has on their everyday life.
As an owner of a dumb-phone (it manages calls & texts, but no internet access), there is, let me tell you an 'answer':
dump you smartphone & use your laptop to access the internet (which removes the 'ease')!
@ChrisMayLA6 Only problem is folks who can’t afford a laptop and use their phone instead.
@tartanroots @ChrisMayLA6 Laptops are often cheaper than modern smartphones, so there would be a financial benefit to move to laptops as well.
If you look at a used computer website, or other online market place for used equipment, you can get an old laptop for 50-200 GBP, at least in sweden. Compare that with the price of a smartphone.
Yes, we're on the same page & another shaded area of the venn
@ChrisMayLA6 @tartanroots This is the truth! It seems to me that privacy is a question that frequently lends itself to cooperation, or at least aligntment, between libertarians and the grass roots left/greens.
Nationalists and incumbent left and right (typically socialist or center/right) seem to be very happy about dismantling surveillance.
The key question then becomes... if the grass roots green, reds or libertarians should ever become incumbents, will they then quickly drop any ideas
@ChrisMayLA6 @tartanroots about dismantling the modern surveillance state?
For instance... the swedish nationalists where at the beginning very anti-EU. Then they became mainstream, and their EU politician suddenly received life time pensions and made them millionaires. All of a sudden, they are pro-EU.