> People are always surprised when they hear me say I hate tech.

> People are always surprised when they hear me say I hate tech. Same. But it's not really that I hate tech: I hate that inferior, mediocre, device that the smartphone is. It's a spying device. It's got a minuscule pathetic screen (I rock an ultra-wide monitor at home). I drive more than most: I was finding my way across Europe before smartphones and I can still find my way without constantly needing a smartphone. My car's navi system (from 2013) does the job totally fine: just a map and GPS receiver and that's it. I very often don't take my phone with me: when I see people glued on their phone, endlessly doom-scrolling and taking selfies I just pitty them. But I'm not luddite: I've got a "homelab" which I uses daily (it serves family pictures, movies, files/backups, it hosts VMs, I use it to isolate AI agents etc.). A smartphone is not "tech": it's a mediocre piece of crap that spies on people. Worse: many have a smartphone but aren't comfortable speaking on the phone. It'd be a tragedy if it wasn't pathetically funny. And at home I keep hammering to my kid that smartphone are poison: opium for the unsuspecting masses. And as she sees me doing just fine without my smartphone, the point is getting across. Screw smartphones: just screw those mediocre turds.

Posted by TacticalCoder on Oct 5, 2026, 3:58 PM

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