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Modern life is so tied with smartphones living without it is increasingly becoming harder (lemm.ee)
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[–] Judgy_McJudgerson@lemm.ee 62 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought I lost my phone before moving states and nearly burst into tears. It has my insurance, the map, what if something happened to me on the road, etc. It was an awful spiraling feeling. Thankfully I found it, but it was a hard reality check of how much I have tied to this little device.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup. Ive spend a lot of time with backups and screenshots of my apps/home screen in case I need to replace it, and I still get weird when I think about it. Years of settings and customization built up, no way I'd be able to get it back 100%.

[–] WiseMoth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why don’t you just back things up through iCloud or Google Drive?

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do, but it doesn't back up everything. Android just doesn't have the backup that apple has unfortunately.

[–] WiseMoth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Aw, dang. That’s annoying

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I run a contracting business and have had straight panic attacks over not being able to find my phone as I'm rushing out the door for the day. I really need to set up an asterisk server and keep my sim cards there but I just don't have time, nor am I paying a service a ridiculous monthly fee to run it.

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uhm can you explain a little more about the asterisk server and the sims cards. I thought asterisk wasn't for mobile phones.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I'm trying to remember myself, but I remember reading about a way to feed a sim interface into a digital telephony card for use with asterisk. It was basically like a modem the fed a voip/sip line into the system. This was years ago that I read this and I could be completely misremembering it.

[–] Judgy_McJudgerson@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I know Apple is restrictive, like that other guy who commented who likes to apply customizations, but I love that apple products talk to each other seamlessly. I could have gone on through my tablet, except that I don’t pay for it to have its own wireless signal.

That’s actually how I found my phone. My neighbor let me tag on to her WiFi and I used the Find My Phone feature with my iPad. Saved me from a meltdown lol