Re: Disabling answering the phone.

On Sun, 14 Apr 2024, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

On Fri, 12 Apr 2024, John McCue wrote:

Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> wrote:

How did we get to the point where one has to do a web search just to be
able to answer the infernal device?

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No kidding!  Also I have a hard time hanging up the "smart"
phone.  These phones do not make using it as a phone easy.
I am not far from tossing it out the window and going to a
dumb phone.

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Do it! I haven't had a smartphone for about 5 years or so and I love it!
The highest price I pay is not being able to get ?ber taxis so I pay about
3x the price with a regular taxi

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I never started using a smartphone, and I recently ran into my

You are very strong with the force! Much respect.

first financial disadvantage resulting from that. I got a
Mastercard gift card as part of a promotion, which I'd made a
deliberate effort to obtain, and it turns out I need a smartphone
app to activate it. Old forum threads suggest that there used to be
a way to do it on their mastercardgift.com.au website, but that
seems to have gone because of course everyone has a smartphone now.
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To be fair, so far I've only established that it can't be used
online without setting it up in the app, I still need to find an
appropriate time and place to try using it in-store.

Well, if you won it as a reward, then I'm sure you can just ask your company to add it to your salary? The card they can just reuse the next time someone does something good. =)

But I'm still sticking to dumb phones. Only I stuffed up trying to
find a cheap 4G one with good reception - it won't talk to the
telco I use. Previous network-locked phones didn't care whether the
network they were locked to was accessed via an account with a
reseller using that phone network, but apparantly they've been
silently shifting the goalposts.

I've had a nokia 220 4g and a nokia 110 4g and both work great with 3g and 4g. Actually I turn off the 4g to save on battery. But maybe you tried those already?