#cellphones — Public Fediverse posts

"why not just --" Brain no worky. Need simple.
Can't be having with holidaying in the settings, but at least having sync'ed mobile and tablet would help a lot.
Or maybe any old touchscreen handset? But which ones, for how long, because security updates n shit.

Altho annoying to lose the
"is it only on Android or iOS? Oh right! I don't have to care" ability.

#phone #Phones #mobile #mobiles #MobilePhone #MobilePhones #cell #cellular #CellPhone #CellPhones #OchMeinHandi

"why not just --" Brain no worky. Need simple.
Can't be having with holidaying in the settings, but at least having sync'ed mobile and tablet would help a lot.
Or maybe any old touchscreen handset? But which ones, for how long, because security updates n shit.

Altho annoying to lose the
"is it only on Android or iOS? Oh right! I don't have to care" ability.

#phone #Phones #mobile #mobiles #MobilePhone #MobilePhones #cell #cellular #CellPhone #CellPhones #OchMeinHandi

"why not just --" Brain no worky. Need simple.
Can't be having with holidaying in the settings, but at least having sync'ed mobile and tablet would help a lot.
Or maybe any old touchscreen handset? But which ones, for how long, because security updates n shit.

Altho annoying to lose the
"is it only on Android or iOS? Oh right! I don't have to care" ability.

#phone #Phones #mobile #mobiles #MobilePhone #MobilePhones #cell #cellular #CellPhone #CellPhones #OchMeinHandi

"why not just --" Brain no worky. Need simple.
Can't be having with holidaying in the settings, but at least having sync'ed mobile and tablet would help a lot.
Or maybe any old touchscreen handset? But which ones, for how long, because security updates n shit.

Altho annoying to lose the
"is it only on Android or iOS? Oh right! I don't have to care" ability.

#phone #Phones #mobile #mobiles #MobilePhone #MobilePhones #cell #cellular #CellPhone #CellPhones #OchMeinHandi

"why not just --" Brain no worky. Need simple.
Can't be having with holidaying in the settings, but at least having sync'ed mobile and tablet would help a lot.
Or maybe any old touchscreen handset? But which ones, for how long, because security updates n shit.

Altho annoying to lose the
"is it only on Android or iOS? Oh right! I don't have to care" ability.

#phone #Phones #mobile #mobiles #MobilePhone #MobilePhones #cell #cellular #CellPhone #CellPhones #OchMeinHandi

Gen X-ers share the college experiences that 'couldn’t happen today' and people are feeling it

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/gen-xers-share-college-stories

More students head back to class without one crucial thing: their phones

Sequoia Carrillo, September 1, 2025

Excerpt: "In Texas, every public and charter school student will be without their phones during the school day this fall. Brigette Whaley, an associate professor of education at West Texas A&M University, expects to see "a more equitable environment" in classrooms with higher student engagement.

"Last year, she tracked the success of a cell phone ban in one west Texas high school by surveying teachers throughout the year. They reported more participation by students, and also said they saw student anxiety plummet – mainly because students weren't afraid of being filmed at any moment and embarrassing themselves.

" 'They could relax in the classroom and participate,' she said. 'And not be so anxious about what other students were doing.'

"The findings in west Texas align with results from many of the states and districts that are heading back to school without phones: Students learn better in a #PhoneFree environment. Getting cell phones out of the classroom is a rare issue with significant bipartisan support, allowing a rapid adoption of policies across red and blue states alike.

"Some 31 states and the District of Columbia now restrict students' use of #CellPhones in schools, according to Education Week."

Read more / listen:
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/01/nx-s1-5495531/more-states-now-ban-cell-phones-in-schools

#TechAddiction #SmartPhoneAddiction #ReadABook #TalkToAFriend #TakeNotes #Handwriting #PayAttention #LessDistractions #LessScreenTime

404 Media: Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional. “A judge in Nevada has ruled that ‘tower dumps’—the law enforcement practice of grabbing vast troves of private personal data from cell towers—is unconstitutional. The judge also ruled that the cops could, this one time, still use the evidence they obtained through this unconstitutional search.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/20/404-media-judge-rules-blanket-search-of-cell-tower-data-unconstitutional/

#Disconnection #CellPhones #Migrants #AsylumSeekers: "This article investigates online connection and disconnection practices among migrants and asylum seekers. It draws from an ethnography of three Sicilian reception centres that hosted migrants and asylum seekers between September and November 2020. We show how migrants, driven by different migratory motivations, enact different mobile connection and disconnection practices. We argue that these are characterised by the different affective meanings that migrants and asylum seekers attach to mobile connection and disconnection and by the different value they place on the public and private dimensions of their lives. By offering a multifaceted portrait of the mobile connection and disconnection practices of different categories of migrants, this article also contributes to: (1) media and migration studies, by showing that there are substantial differences in online connection practices and smartphone use between asylum seekers and migrants and (2) to disconnection studies, by highlighting the nuances that exist within disconnection practices among non-privileged social groups, such as migrants and asylum seekers. We show that they cannot afford to practise typically Western, urban and elitist forms of disconnection; however, they too are able to practise specific forms of disconnection, paradoxically afforded by staying connected. The article aims to contextualise and situate disconnection studies within different social, political, cultural and geographic contexts." https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448241249371