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hunter

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6. I can pretend my flip phone is a Star Trek communicator.

Reply to Intractable (Reply #4)

Tue Feb 24, 2026, 09:37 PM

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That's all the amusement I expect from my phone. Otherwise it's just a tool for talking and sending or receiving brief texts.

I don't want a device that sucks me into Big Brother's alternate reality of video shorts, advertising, AI slop, and doom scrolling.

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