Needless to say, if you're on a forum like this, you likely have a different relationship with your computer (and computing in general) than most people. All this time we spend squeezing ever more out of our big, loud, heavy, hot machines and their outdated (although certainly not useless) software... some people are even using their ancient Macs as their daily driver workstations today. It's quite remarkable.
I've participated in mini-discussions on here before about the ills of Web 2.0+, social media, internet privacy, tracking, etc., particularly when it comes to efficiently accessing this world on our older, slower computers. But what's really gotten our current online state of affairs (and all of its associated baggage) going is the smartphone.
I wonder, as devotees of a long-gone and seemingly forgotten era of computing, what is everyone here's relationship with the smartphone? Has anyone never had one? Or switched from smartphone to dumbphone?
And finally, as vintage computing enthusiasts, is the proliferation of the smartphone something to be lamented or lauded?
I'll withhold my own thoughts for now. Curious to hear what everyone has to say.