• locuester@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    Can confirm. I’m a tech worker. No smart devices. Laser printer. Very close to going back to a flip phone.

    I am looking at some smart locks, but they’re able to be used as dumb locks with PIN code and physical key also. And they have a usb power port on the outside you could plug a battery into.

    I’ve gone down the smart home route a decade ago and only did non-cloud integrated devices with physical controls also. But it’s a part time hobby to maintain it.

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      2 days ago

      flip phone

      Almost all such phones are actually smart phones in a flip phone Edgar Suit. Especially if it has maps or YouTube or any kind of an App Store. I see a crapton of flip phones that run Android, which has all sorts of Google spyware piggybacking along.

      I think there may be only two or three dumb flip phones or feature flip phones left on the market, and IIRC two are locked to specific networks.

      If you want a bona-fide dumb phone, you might be limited to something like the rotary un-smartphone.

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        I had a Sharp SH-03L for a while, it’s a business version of one of their flip phones that didn’t even have a camera.

        The OS was actually android 8.0 but really stripped down to basically only do the whatever apps a flip phone has.

        I was able to sideload apks through ADB, but ironically, I actually wanted the google stuff to work since a lot of the apps required it to log in and other things.

        The thing was pretty cheap though, paid like $15 for it