The main cruxes tend to be: having a wired connection to "the grid"/outside world. Not being fully independent. Adopting worldly & not practical practices.

Cell phones are practical. I've seen a few Amish with basic cell phones at farmer shows.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

yeah I remember awhile back. talking decade or so. that they were creeping in (cell phones) but there had not been an official ruling. Some had them but kept them outside of the house and such. I had actually saw one thing that said they would have like phonebooths at the intersection of several family farms and that was considered all right because they could share and would not be tempted to use it for poor reasons.

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[–] ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hahahah oh man my thought of what funny stuff those sorts might lead to mostly centered around kids at school getting in trouble, but this is way, way better. :)

On the darker side of things I was also concerned about people in abusive situations with hidden phones getting outed, which probably also happened. :(

(I am not a bright guy so I can't take credit for coming up with that on my own, I saw someone post about it on Mastodon.)

[–] DeepFriedDresden@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

By that thought process, wouldn't these people more likely to have their hidden phone discovered by spontaneous Amber Alerts? Those come with no warning, whereas the NAS did come with a heads up.

[–] explodicle@local106.com 4 points 2 years ago

You can turn those off entirely.

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[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

So is this another "look at what Biden did now..." headline over at Fux News?

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