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   Anon Opin (anon_opin@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Feb-2026 00:06:02 JST Anon Opin

   Not everyone can afford a smartphone. Stop making it the primary, and sometimes the only, interface for day to day services. It's like when companies move their customer facing information onto Discord. It's shit. Fucking stop it.

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     Zenobia Żaczek (zenia@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 01-Feb-2026 00:06:01 JST Zenobia Żaczek

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     @anon_opin the poor people I know have no laptops, but they all have smartphones. In fact, it is their only personal computer.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 01-Feb-2026 00:06:01 JST Rich Felker

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     • Zenobia Żaczek

     @zenia @anon_opin Yeah, garbage Androids are basically free, and it's nearly impossible to get a "non-smart" phone anymore. The same conclusions apply but "can't afford" isn't the reason.

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     Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒 (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Sunday, 01-Feb-2026 00:36:13 JST Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒

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     @anon_opin And with the current pricing crisis surrounding memory and flash storage, it's only going to get worse.

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     Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Sunday, 01-Feb-2026 06:31:18 JST Jessamyn

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     • Zenobia Żaczek

     @dalias @anon_opin @zenia I work in a public library and there's a handful of people I see regularly who don't have smart phones including our library director. And they just use the libraries free computers. I think it's really important to have multiple ways of interacting with companies and governments that aren't just limited to smartphone apps.