stillgreenmoss

yesterday i moved my phone number to a dumbphone, here it is

the phone is an AGM M9 phone that supports 4G and comes in both international and US versions. you can buy it here

i still have a smartphone, since most of my communication happens over signal and i do not want to give up the privacy of signal texts and calls for SMS and regular phone. i also rely on my smartphone for maps with osmand, but that works completely offline. i will just only use the smartphone on wifi. i also have an unlimited wifi hotspot from calyx so i can get wifi on my smartphone out in the world when necessary

i want to see what happens when i have the ability to leave home with only a smartphone and no regular phone, or to leave home with a dumbphone but no smartphone hellscreen yet preserve the ability to call a cab or 911 or a friend or a taxi if something unexpected or bad happens. i want to be less phone, and less online, or at least more consciously online. and i'm hoping that separating the concerns of phone/small computer (smartphone)/big computer (laptop) completely will do that

another potential benefit from this is that apparently the cell radios on these pixel phones are known to crap out quite often. when that happens, everything other than the actual cellular phone continues to work. so putting the phone concerns onto a different device is sort of insurance

this is basically an experiment. if it sucks i will stop. i can also move my SIM card back to the smartphone anytime. i will eventually update here about how it goes

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