flskafdslaf

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by flskafdslaf 3y ago
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by flskafdslaf 3y ago
I commend your caution, but if an adult with full faculties available to them has determined that smartphones and tablets have too many risks and downsides to be an effective tool, then what chance does a child have? Also - why the pre-dete
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by flskafdslaf 3y ago
>Because if their kids don't have screen time, and they get bored and complain What is fundamentally different about the world today, compared to 10 years ago (when widespread child usage of phones and tablets was vanishingly rare),
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by flskafdslaf 3y ago
That's fantastic, if your jam is investing in premium hardware and story-telling in video format. Personally, I can't think of a bigger waste of everyone's time than videoing my own life. Edit: I will take your point though,
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by flskafdslaf 3y ago
Tablets and smartphones are designed at every level to be devices for consuming (or being consumed by?) content. And if you do want to create things, they are terrible tools for that.
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by flskafdslaf 3y ago
My oldest is turning 5, and the answer is "not yet". But then neither my wife nor I carry a smartphone.
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by flskafdslaf 3y ago
Let them be creative in ways that don't need a computer? It's not the be-all and end-all.
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by flskafdslaf 3y ago
And now it's easy and we're drowning in endless webby and cloudy cruft.
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by flskafdslaf 3y ago
Makes you wonder how people read long novels before they had enough RAM!
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by flskafdslaf 3y ago
They are probably still right. How much of the computing resources we all now have access to do we actually need ?
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by flskafdslaf 3y ago
Can confirm. Gave up a smartphone in 2020 as part of a re-evaluation of my relationship with and dependence on technology, and the immediate peace was incredible.
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by flskafdslaf 3y ago
If I had no other way to navigate somewhere (which is possible!), I would rather pay for a dedicated satnav than put up with the downsides of a smartphone.
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by flskafdslaf 3y ago
Weird. Every job I've had has asked for my passport (UK) or work permit (US).
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by flskafdslaf 3y ago
The proposed solution ignores the $5 wrench attack.
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by flskafdslaf 3y ago
>If an employer asked to fingerprint me I'd tell them where to stick their scanner. They don't need to, because your employer probably asked you for a form of biometric ID.
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by flskafdslaf 3y ago
Firefox + uBlock Origin = no ads