This is a real cri de coeur
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<<"I don’t have a smartphone," is what I tell people and professionals nowadays. This allows me to cut the crap about companies insisting that I install their app or restaurants wishing that I scan a QR code to access their menu on a small screen.
"I don’t have a smartphone" is, according to my experience, the easiest explanation, the shortest way to force people to get their shit together and take the required actions to allow me to live without being glued to a small screen dependent on a huge American megacorporation.>>
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As he goes on to admit, it's very hard these days to "stay pure". But that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.
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richard <AT> deckzero <DOT> uk