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Posted Jan 29, 2025 13:42 UTC (Wed) by jzb (editor, #7867)
In reply to: Flee from Meta by dskoll
Parent article: Linux-related discussion as a cybersecurity threat

"Remember when speaking on the phone was a thing?"

You mean last century? The late 1900s? :)

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Posted Jan 29, 2025 15:03 UTC (Wed) by laurent.pinchart (subscriber, #71290) [Link] (3 responses)

In the late 1900's it was even possible to meet somewhere in the real world without having to carry any electronic device on your way from home to the destination. I know stories of people who managed to find themselves in the same pre-agreed location at the same pre-agreed time without having to communicate with each other on the way. Crazy, right?

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Posted Jan 29, 2025 16:01 UTC (Wed) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958) [Link] (1 responses)

And do you know how many times my mum called the police because someone of us had missed the bus?

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Posted Jan 30, 2025 2:29 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

How many times?

My mom didn't start worrying until I was 2-3 hours late and hadn't called...

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Posted Jan 29, 2025 17:01 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

The joys of having to wait by a known, pre-arranged phone-box, for those cases where you /did/ you have to communicate along the way.

"Are they going to ring when they said or not?"

"Arg, someone else is using the phone box!"