On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 02:34:32PM -0400, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > Once smart phones came out in the mid-2000s and the way people were > using them, I confirmed my initial decision not to join that culture. > I prefer to be "fully present" in public. You mean there are two of us? I thought I was the only one. Hi! (To be fair, I didn't join because I couldn't stand the idea of paying that much money monthly for something regardless of whether or not I use it. Once my land line went to VOIP in June 2013, which costs me only $1USD per month if I don't use it, it became impossible to imagine paying orders of magnitude more for a mobile device.) -- | Ian! D. Allen, BA-Psych, MMath-CompSci idallen [ at ] idallen [ dot ] ca Ottawa CANADA | Home: www.idallen.com Contact Improvisation Dance: www.contactimprov.ca | Former college professor of Free/Libre GNU+Linux @ teaching.idallen.com | Improve democracy www.fairvote.ca and defend digital freedom www.eff.org To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org