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[โ€“] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've tried living without a mobile phone.

It makes life needlessly difficult. Doing anything requires getting through layers of "why don't you have a phone"

I looked into getting a landline installed in my home. The guy at the phone store said land lines aren't a thing anymore and showed me the fucking modem they'd be using for my "land line"

Something is deeply wrong.

[โ€“] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I mean here you can still get an LTE box and connect old phones to them. Or ooma which is voip