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NaughtyPickle · M
5G ... is the beginning of the end there will only be smart things not smart peoples
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@NaughtyPickle Oh dear! That is a very pessimistic outlook.
I don't know what "5G" allows being performed but I think the more serious matter is that more and more big commercial and official organisations are manipulating us all to their benefit into uniform ways of using them, with fewer and fewer choices; based on so-called "smart" phones and whatever background "bloatware" Microsoft, Google etc. enforce.
However, we can as far as possible, load only applications we need or want; and switch the thing off when we don't need it or should not use it.
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I am going to have to up-date (not up-grade, in my view) my PC from WIN-7 to WIN-10 - Goodness know what havoc that will wreak but I hope the installing allows me to omit or delete the needless and meretrious like games and Cortana.
My portable 'phone is staying as it is though. A basic, 3G rated, voice-first, text-second telephone on PAYG! Most of my telephone calls either way are by land-line anyway.
I don't know what "5G" allows being performed but I think the more serious matter is that more and more big commercial and official organisations are manipulating us all to their benefit into uniform ways of using them, with fewer and fewer choices; based on so-called "smart" phones and whatever background "bloatware" Microsoft, Google etc. enforce.
However, we can as far as possible, load only applications we need or want; and switch the thing off when we don't need it or should not use it.
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I am going to have to up-date (not up-grade, in my view) my PC from WIN-7 to WIN-10 - Goodness know what havoc that will wreak but I hope the installing allows me to omit or delete the needless and meretrious like games and Cortana.
My portable 'phone is staying as it is though. A basic, 3G rated, voice-first, text-second telephone on PAYG! Most of my telephone calls either way are by land-line anyway.