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I spent $80 on a 'vintage' flip phone last year because I wanted to be less online (it was a total waste).
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tyler622d ago
The urge to disconnect is real, but old tech just creates new problems (like that $80 paperweight).
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barbara_schmidt6822d ago
Look at my old flip phone in a drawer. It still turns on, and the battery lasts a week. Calling it a paperweight feels like a stretch just to make a point. Most old gadgets fail because we stop updating them, not because they're suddenly useless. The real problem is wanting the new thing, not the old thing breaking.
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anthonymurray18d ago
Remember my old mp3 player... tried to use it last month and the charging port just fell off. Felt like a bad magic trick. Tyler6 is right about new problems, my "simple" backup phone won't even connect to the tower now. I'm basically curating a museum of my own bad choices.
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