Because this topic came up in c/technology and I was wondering.
Would this be feasible? How bad would it be to your social life?
I’m looking for these scenarios:
-
No smartphone, but have a dumbphone and a computer
-
No phone at all, but have a computer
-
No smartphone, but have a dumbphone, no computer
-
Nothing at all
In the U.S. older people still get by fine without all this stuff. I have family that still has a landline, nothing else, so I guess maybe that’s #3 in your list. It does mean they physically have to go to places to get things done (e.g. physically go to a bank).
Older people don’t care as much about social life beyond visiting/seeing the people/relatives they’ve always been seeing. A smartphone isn’t required for that.
I have a coworker that still has an old party line for their landline at the farm and if he wasn’t given a company phone he probably wouldn’t have one.
Oh man I wish my 90 year old parents would go back to a landline. They do not have that ability to use a smartphone.
I am forever trying to tech support for them on that.
I guess you have tried already, but maybe a different launcher? A simpler one :)