What sucks most about smartphones is how much everyone came to rely on them and expect you to have one which is turned on and working. Rent a bike? Need an app! Log in somewhere? Need 2FA. I just want to leave my phone turned off for a few days like in the good old days. There must be something wrong with the way we live.

There’s been something wrong with the way we live ever since the agricultural revolution by the latest.

If you need 2FA on desktop authme.levminer.com (shameless plug)

Use yubikey for 2fa and install yubioath desktop and get your totp tokens from there.

Won't help you with the bike tho

Ask for and purchase a drink from the bar? No no, you must download our app, order and pay for it via the app. Oh and there's a delivery charge to your table. Welcome to hell.

There's always a cost in wanting to live unlike the majority.

It sure is possible to live without a smartphone but damn hell it's an inconvenient one nowadays.

It's always the question on which battle you want to fight, but the fight against the smartphone will most likely be a very lonesome hill to die on.

I already gave up the fight against the American bro companies which is why I use a Google phone right now. LineageOS without any Google services was super cool in a way, but already that made me miss out on banking and location services for most apps that concluded my phone was hacked or a phoney hacker device.

In ever-expending part of the world you even need a smartphone and an app to do government/taxes/healthcare related things nowadays. I believe Estonia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...) is leading in this field although I don't live there and can't speak from my experience .

"Old rich" countries, like US, France, Germany etc. seems to be bit more resilient to trend (probably because they all have big, wealthy, influential and not-tech savy boomer class they fell need to constantly appease) but I suspect this change is coming to them as well within next ~5 years

Soon the smartphone/phone number will be new ID.

It fucking sucks