Yes, or streaming them yourself. I stream and can monitor the chat feed on my phone and tweak things about the stream like the title, settings etc.
Mobile phones, anyone else who doesn't need one?
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Yes, or streaming them yourself. I stream and can monitor the chat feed on my phone and tweak things about the stream like the title, settings etc.
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I do perfectly fine without one.Coming from the opposite side, don't you find it worrying how you feel you are unable to cope without your mobile phone?
I mean how did we all manage to survive before hand? we should have been extinct by now
If you managed this long without one is unlikely you need one.
I'm old enough to remember when there where no mobile phones. I didn't find it "better". I find them useful. That said people can be obsessed with them. Doing a detox is good for you.
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The last phone I had was a Samsung S3 mini on O2, when I used it as a phone, sat there on a bus or where ever I couldn't even hear the person on the other end the signal was so bad.
For apps, well I just wasn't into them on FB and tinder while on my break sat on the toilet. Tinder on the toilet you say, swipe and wipe?
Yeah I just don't need one for everyday life, but as others have said, it would be handy if you're in need of emergency help, but that's a bit like paying for home insurance for years and not using it huh?
I don't have any home insurance, I just put £40 away into a rainy day isa account.
For apps, well I just wasn't into them on FB and tinder while on my break sat on the toilet. Tinder on the toilet you say, swipe and wipe?
Yeah I just don't need one for everyday life, but as others have said, it would be handy if you're in need of emergency help, but that's a bit like paying for home insurance for years and not using it huh?
I don't have any home insurance, I just put £40 away into a rainy day isa account.
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I was going to post that earlier, you beat me to it.
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Having bought vehicle SatNavs myself and experienced the joys of what they do to some people, I would have suggested better training in aerial navigation, rather than hoping technology will cover up his inadequacies.
To be honest he had been flying for 20 years up to that point.
We had gone down to Leicester from the Burton area and coming back he followed the wrong motorway and then after a while realised we were going West instead of North.
At that point he turned round and decided to fly North East to intersect with the motorway we should be following.
The next thing air control are trying to talk to him and he's poo'ing himself because you should never be lost in an aircraft (so he said).
He told me to keep pulling the mic in and out of the socket as though it was faulty and then he saw a power station he recognised, he was then able to tell them the mic was now fixed and he went into his best Pilot BS why he did the flight path he did
That story is nowhere near as good as the time we went up and his engine caught fire though.
I sent that into You've Been Framed but they didn't show it, too much swearing I think.
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Coming from the opposite side, don't you find it worrying how you feel you are unable to cope without your mobile phone?
I mean how did we all manage to survive before hand? we should have been extinct by now
it was extremely annoying. we had to agree a time and place you would meet at or even just agree a place and just wait until everyone turned up. alternatively you went one by one to each others homes then walked to the train station together. whereas now you can now just whatsapp and say i was in x and now we have moved onto y meet us there.
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Everyone of my pals lived in the same area and we all met up at 6pm at our old primary school, the half way walking point for us all.
Then I was the odd one out at 14 when my mum decided to move to a better area and I had to get a bus at the weekend to meet up with them.
Then I was the odd one out at 14 when my mum decided to move to a better area and I had to get a bus at the weekend to meet up with them.
Agreed, but if you broke down halfway between two of those phones, in torrential rain and at -2c,
I bet that you’d wish that you had a mobile phone then.
Coming from the opposite side, don't you find it worrying how you feel you are unable to cope without your mobile phone?
I mean how did we all manage to survive before hand? we should have been extinct by now
We all survived when we had to get up and push a button to switch channels on the TV,
but wasn’t it so much easier when remotes became available?
At first, probably yes.
Today, the UI on a lot of devices is unbelievably poor, confusing and inconsistent. I know loads of people who cannot for the life of them figure out how to use Sky, etc, and find modern remotes far too complex and confusing.
And I must say I sympathise. There is so much awful UI design in modern electronics and modern remotes aren't simple or easy for a lot of people.
I bought a phone recently specifically marketed at older people, claiming to be easy to use. Like **** it was. I could use it, but when I did I immediately noticed how buttons would do one thing in one place, and something completely different in another place, and there is absolutely no thought put into how to make these things consistent and obvious.
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Wasn't it better when we only had the 3-4 tv channel and it was easier to settle on one show, today we have so many channel that we spend most of the night channel hopping not watching anything.
Like having 200+ music CD's or DVD's and not knowing what to watch or listen to
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I still laugh about going to my grans on a Sunday and pushing the teletext buttons on the remote and my gran warning me not to break the TV.
UI/UX design these days is all about how stuff looks and rarely how it works.
There's so many obvious mistakes tho. Like the phone I mentioned. One level deep into the menu system the back button is the red hang up button (but the phone gives you no indication that this is so). Two levels deep, the back button is the context sensitive button just below the LCD display, and is labelled "Back" on the display. But that then means you have to read the display (a lot of people don't). After backing up to the first menu level, if you pressed that button again it would do something else (not exit the menu as you might expect).
Sometimes you have to press the green button to answer the call. Sometimes you don't, and pressing it will put you on speakerphone instead.
It's not a case of people just not being able to figure it out. With the right mindset you can figure it out, but you shouldn't have to. The UX designers sole job is to make the interface as simple, intuitive and (crucially) consistent as possible. Not having two different back buttons depending on where you are in the menu...
Like I said, this phone was marketed to older people, but the sole extent of their consideration was making the buttons bigger. The UX is a complete mess
Even the Sky UI is inconsistent. Sometimes you press "back up" to delete input, sometimes you press left arrow... (etc).
I dunno what it was like in the 90s but you can literally ask for a position, heading/altitude and/or speed check without having to explain yourself. Sometimes conditions can mean you can't rely on your sensors, etc. sounds more like a dangerous level of inexperience on your friend's part.
Though UK air space is a pretty horrid mess of controlled air space, service level and flight rules :s
Jesus Christ it's 2021..
This is like a discussion from the 00s
If your life is suitably weird/bland enough that you don't need a smartphone and all the convenience it brings you then GG for you.
You can't function in Swedish society without one, so much is linked to smart IDs and your phone number. So much so one of the first things they do as a refugee is buy you a top of the range s20 or alike to help the integration....
(May or may not be true)
This is like a discussion from the 00s
If your life is suitably weird/bland enough that you don't need a smartphone and all the convenience it brings you then GG for you.
You can't function in Swedish society without one, so much is linked to smart IDs and your phone number. So much so one of the first things they do as a refugee is buy you a top of the range s20 or alike to help the integration....
(May or may not be true)
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Is that the peoples problem or Swedish Governments?
If I were to be arrested today and asked for ID...I have nothing what to do?
If I were to be arrested today and asked for ID...I have nothing what to do?
Generally back then people used to have a good idea what schedule friends and family, etc. lived by, maybe more so than in today's connected world. Probably a lot of people's lives were simpler as well at least it seemed that way.
I remember a lot of the time we'd just go one by one to each person's home before heading on.