From 12bea39e635a7617a7ef88487262f58aa7de6789 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Suleyman Farajli Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 01:19:54 +0400 Subject: markdown updated to follow a consistent style --- posts/nophone.md | 43 +++++++++++++++++-------------------------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) (limited to 'posts/nophone.md') diff --git a/posts/nophone.md b/posts/nophone.md index 60c103b..423e3ca 100644 --- a/posts/nophone.md +++ b/posts/nophone.md @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@ -Why I absolutely hate smartphones. ----------------------------------- +### 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  @@ -29,14 +28,13 @@ Now, let's talk about why - Privacy and Security Absolutely suck on "smart" phones. -Operating Systems ------------------ +### 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 +**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  @@ -57,13 +55,12 @@ 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  +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 ------------------- +### 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.   @@ -77,8 +74,7 @@ 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 ------------------------ +### 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  @@ -91,19 +87,18 @@ There is one program, however, that is worth talking about separately, and that 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! +- 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 +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! +> 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 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  @@ -113,31 +108,27 @@ 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 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 ------- +### 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 ------------------------ +### 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 -------------- +### 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. +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. -- cgit v1.2.3