Always had a cheap desktop computer and never thought a phone was worth it. Is there a reason people like me should reconsider?
The more sensors the better. I want a motherfucking tricorder.
It connects my laptop to the internet when I’m away from home.
A phone can’t replace a computer unless you put Linux on it and connect a monitor and keyboard. Even then, it will perform like a 15 year old computer.
No. Do what works for you.
Currently in a country I don’t speak the language. You can just talk to your phone and it’ll translate it and play their language over the speaker. Then they respond, it translates it to English and says it.
For menus in restaurants just take a picture and now it’s English. Shits wild
If you’re satisfied with what you have, by all means stick with it.
If your current setup is stopping you from doing something you want to do, or is holding you back from progress in something you care about, look around for solutions. Many other pieces of tech can fill in what a smartphone does, but in separate pieces. I think there is some value in having those separate pieces.
Like a smoker telling you not to smoke, I encourage you to find alternatives to the smart phone for daily life while typing to you from a smartphone.
I’m a smoker and I take offense to your comment. Winners never quit and quitters never win! Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em! /s
It generally does everything your desktop computer does, but you can do it while you’re on the shitter.
I’m not even kidding.
Navigating the web sucks in comparison though
I live in a foreign country. So international communication is free and pretty simple.
How does this work? If you live in a country then it isn’t foreign… it’s your country. I guess you mean you don’t live in the USA or whatever country OP is in? Just curious how a person could state that.
I’m not from this country so it’s foreign to me.
You could say you have a foreign friend, but does he stop being foreign once your friends or when he comes to visit? Or is he always a foreign friend?
Well, sure. I’m not trying to start an argument or trying to talk down to you or anything. I just mean that once you are living in a country then it’s no longer foreign? If you are there on vacation then sure. But if you live there then it is your country. Sorry if it sounds like I’m splitting hairs, but at some point the store down the street or your neighbors aren’t “foreign” any longer, but home. That’s all, just my thought process.
Well I do refer to it as my neighborhood. But I do not speak the local language and I do not know all of the customs.
Even the style of speech in English is different than it is in America. I’ve been here for about 6 years, but you never really know a country and culture the way you know your own.
Just last week, my wife brought home a cheap snack from 7/11. OMG! It was so good, I’ve walked passed them for years only to discover they are my new favorite snack. I have been buying so many bags of them. This is the kind of stuff which makes me feel that this is a foreign country.
In addition to that, there are a number of things I am not able to do here that a citizen can. So in some ways, I can never fit in here. One example, is I cannot hold any professional positions, like lawyer, doctor, or any government position. I can also never own land here.
Ok, I get it. Again, I wasn’t trying to bust your chops, just couldn’t figure out how the country you are living in is foreign. If the country puts barriers to entry like that ( you have been there for 6 years and they still consider you foreign? That doesn’t make sense to me) then I understand why you consider it foreign. Just curious, and you don’t have to answer this, is your wife a native there? Does not marring a native not give a person some standing?
Yeah, my wife’s a citizen of this country. I just recently got residency, but those restrictions still apply.
I just don’t have to renew my tourist visa anymore and I don’t have to fly out and back into the country trying to every 3 years.
It also lets me get employed by a private company without the need of a work visa.
But I still can’t hold professional jobs. I actually was looking into going to med school at one point to be a doctor here.
School is cheap here, then I found out that even if I go to med school here I’m not allowed to practice medicine.
It’s actually a bit annoying, but now there is one less doctor in this country.
