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I do believe I'd rather fucking walk than have this.

Or just rip out the circuitry and hook up the wires to a power source with something like an ESP8266 or - for the real Luddites - a rheostat.

Then again walking is quite healthy and if you have a train station nearby, why not. Writing this from a train going between the Netherlands and Sweden, a trip I make regularly. Quicker and cheaper than driving and I get to hack away while going places.

I don't own a car or need one so yes that.

Right-to-repair should cover hackability to cut microphone and antennae wires

Would you stop having smartphones? Because "they" do the same thing as revealed in news reports recently.

I certainly lowered my usage, removed ie all Meta apps (or linkedin) long before it became Meta, and no looking back.

Happy to remove any app that I don't like, fuck usability and convenience, I have some good respect towards myself and I know how to live well without phone. Are we really that retarded that threat to keep away from the phone is supposed to be something scary? When quality life happens often exactly due to lack of it in our hands.

No and anything like that is turned off and it's iOS so I trust that they don't do anything behind my back like that.

I also have no social media on my phone, everything is locked down and all the privacy options are enabled.

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