Looking at my own digital dependency and comparing it to people I know, although being personally more of a tech geek than most, I find my dependency of technology lower.

Hardware wise, I tend to run everything I buy until it is rendered completely unuseable or it breaks down. This obviously ties with my preference towards FOSS but I think it is more of a tangent.

Services wise, I am a complete outlier. I never subscribed to a streaming service, I was quick to leave mainstream social media behind, I never boarded fads around wearables. Most applications that inhabit my acquaintances smartphones don’t find a way to mine (Whatsapp, Amazon, Aliexpress, Uber, UberEats, etc).

This is the most extreme part of my behaviour but I have refused services that do not have a means of contact/interaction besides an application.

And I do not feel inconvinienced in my day to day life by this.

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    13 days ago

    If I was to consider myself dependent to anything, I would say I’m more of an analog dependency kind of guy than a digital one.

    I mean, I have a computer and a phone (and a tablet) and I know how to use them, but I also don’t feel much excitement building up thinking about using them, at all. On the other hand, I enjoy doing analog and IRL activities.