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title: Featurephone Woes
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date: 2024-01-23
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- featurephone
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It's day 4 and some of the irritations are becoming apparent.
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Not being able to shut it up at night is bad.
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I may start storing it in another room, I'm not sure.
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My wife seems to think no featurephone ever had quiet hours:
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that was a smartphone thing.
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Maybe. But I don't like getting notification sounds
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at 11pm when there's a blip in Internet connectivity.
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KaiOS 3.0 is locked down hard.
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I can't sideload apps:
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the only way to test things out is on my device is to register a developer account,
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upload the app to their store,
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and then sign my phone up as a tester for the app.
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I'll do that, but I'm not happy about it.
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I did make an audiobook player, though!
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And it seems to work just dandy.
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So I've restored that function.
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There's a W3C standard for audiobook manifests,
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so in theory I can make an app where you just provide a URL to a standard-compliant manifest and blammo,
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you have that audiobook.
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Pretty easy,
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and I [i]love[/i] that the app development platform is just HTML and JavaScript.
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Every mobile OS should work this way. This is the right thing.
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Some of the things I thought would be problematic just aren't.
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The loss of the Signal app just doesn't matter:
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I'm using the desktop app,
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which I like better anyway,
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since our chats are more long-form.
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And it looks like my crew is dipping their toes back into IRC anyway,
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which is great,
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because it's an open standard,
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so I can develop an app for it.
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I need to deposit a check today.
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It looks like nobody's web page allows that:
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I must use a smartphone.
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That's... irritating.
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A couple of nice things have happened, too.
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Because texting is so much less convenient,
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I'm spending more time in voice calls with my kid,
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which I like quite a bit.
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It also didn't take long at all for me to lose the compulsion to "check my phone".
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It's totally gone,
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no withdrawl symptoms or anything.
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That may be worth all the other inconveniences.
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We'll see.
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