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diff --git a/content/posts/nophone.md b/content/posts/nophone.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9592805 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/nophone.md @@ -0,0 +1,142 @@ +--- +title: "I dislike modern smartphones." +slug: "no-smart-phone" +created: 2024-09-25 +description: "Explaining why I prefer not to use a smartphone." +tags: [Technology] +draft: false +--- + + +### Why I absolutely hate smartphones. + +For the past few years, the question that I have been asked the most +is that "why don't you use a smartphone", but I've never really +answered any of those questions, even though, +I do have different reasons not to use one. + +The main point is that if you ever use any sort of properly +designed "normal" operating systems and hardware you can't really +go back and use garbage computer operating systems or phones +without getting disgusted. +With smartphones, it is even worse than toy-like computer OSes like windows +or mac, because with those systems you at least get some sort of +proper hardware components like a keyboard, +a monitor with "normal" screen ratio and so on. +But with phones, not only you get an operating system that is no better than +trash, but also some very cringe way to interact with the hardware. +(Yes, I am talking about sensor screens.) + +Now, let's talk about why + +- Operating systems +- Package Management +- User space applications +- Hardware +- Privacy and Security +Absolutely suck on "smart" phones. + +### Operating Systems +There are 2 main OSes for phones: iOS and Android, there are also some not widely used ones +like legacy Windows Phone and even some open-source ones, though here, I shall only talk about the +first 2 that I have mentioned, but that should also be somewhat relevant +to almost all the other phone OSes as well. + +**Android Sucks**! because, you can't even perform the most basic +computer functionalities +like compiling very simple software, writing scripts, and so on, you don't even have +the root access to the phone you "own", but the company that sold you that has full +access to the phone over the internet, that is basically like slavery with extra steps, lol. +Some people might say "Well, that is not a computer +you are not supposed to compile programs and write scripts!" I don't buy that argument +because, in reality, computers and phones are indeed the same thing, the way that they +function is the same, the way they connect with other computers is the same, +they use the same technologies to function (in fact, Android uses the Linux kernel). +The difference between properly written computer OSes and android is that +computer OSes care about the users while phones are trying to keep you under control. +It is also worth mentioning that I am not talking about the pure open source Android +project, I am talking about Android, on which companies put a load of garbage to make +it more "beneficial" for the company. + +With iPhones, it's the same thing except it is even worse, +it should be obvious why, apple! the single worst company +that has ever existed, Apple is trying so hard to keep you +inside of its garbage-like "ecosystem" by making it very hard +and even sometimes impossible to connect with hardware/software +other than Apple's, and all these ***morons*** will be like +> "BuT, DuuuuuDe, APpLE DeVIces WeRk WItH oTher AppLE DeViCes sO SMoOthLy" +Yeah, by making it impossible to work with basically everything else +and you have to have apple garbage all around you. + +### Package Management +Android and iOS do have some sort of package management, +on Android, it's Play store (But you can also install packages using .apk format) +on iOS, you have app store. +Google owns Play Store, and you have to have a google account to be able to use +Play Store (which on Android you basically also have to), on iOS, Apple owns +app store. +That might not seem like a huge deal, but it is. It basically means Google and Apple +have all the control of the programs uploaded to Play Store and app store respectively, +meaning that Google and Apple can block and even change the source code of some programs, +inject absolutely anything inside them. +Those companies need profit no matter what, meaning they would do anything to +get profit, even unethical stuff, and you are the one who let them do that to you. + +### User Space applications +By user space applications, I mean just the programs that people +install on smartphones. Frankly speaking, those programs are +just for normies who don't understand +technology and advances users are completely ignored. Phone programs +are graphical, thus they use more ram and cpu and most of the time they are +full of advertisements (Xiaomi Phones even have ads in the system's gallery). +They are not privacy-respecting, bloated, and kind of useless. +There is one program, however, that is worth talking about separately, and that is +"WhatsApp". It is the most widely used messaging application, though it has absolutely +nothing extraordinary and some stuff that is even worse than an average messaging program. +Here are some bad stuff about it: + +- WhatsApp is not private, **at all**! +- You have to have a smartphone and a phone number. + +Imagine a piece of software requires you to have a phone to be able to use it, +that is basically like saying that a $400 device is a dependency of that program, +this is absolutely *nuts*. I find it quite absurd +that people don't find it absurd. +> If a program as simple as a messaging app requires you to have +> a cell phone, you shouldn't even be using that, +> no matter how many people around you use it! + +### Hardware +Hardware of cellphones absolutely suck they are designed to be broken so easily you can +break them by accident, that is, of course, +to sell more of them, they are nothing like old classic solid Nokia phones +with buttons and stuff, instead you have only a screen and you touch on it +which is very very cringe. +I just want buttons to press, not touchscreens to touch. +Another thing is that you can't upgrade your RAM or your storage and you're supposed to use overpriced +services like iCloud or Google Drive. + +### Privacy and security +Privacy just doesn't exist on smartphones; that is just a matter of fact. +If you use an iPhone, all your photos are sent to Apple servers and can be hacked +(though not quite probable) since, they are not stored only on your local system +which makes it less secure as well, +On Android, people use Google Photos, which is basically as bad as iPhones. + +### Health +Phones are also bad for your health, I can't +tell you the specifics since I am not a doctor. +But it is common knowledge that phones are bad for you. + +### Good stuff about phones +The only good thing about a phone is its camera. +though many people take too many useless pictures +resulting in a mess of data. Nonetheless, cameras are very useful +but it is not worth it to use a smartphone just because of that. + +### Summing it up +Smartphones are useless pieces of garbage that are overpriced, not privacy respecting and +meant for normies who don't understand how technology +works, or at least how it should work, ***no offense***. +Even if you must use a smartphone, that doesn't change the fact that they are +bad for you. |