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I tried this myself, but it’s hard for a few reasons:
- Messaging actually takes more time (defeats some of the purpose)
- No banking apps (inconvenient)
- No proprietary 2FA (nonstarter for work reasons)
- No “let me Google that real quick” moments (comparison shopping when in store, looking up a phone number for a restaurant, etc.).
- Their cameras universally suck
Some “dumb” phones still have a web browser and such, so you’re not completely out of luck, but it’s painful.
I used to frequent the FOSSCAD IRC ages back as a teen. This started during the post-Liberator panic, there were talks about regulating 3D printers to not allow printing guns, etc. Designed a few things, never actually printed any of it myself, but some others did. Really got me into engineering before I exited the scene, led to actually pursuing an engineering career. Was surprised to see 3D printed gun videos so openly shared, it was pretty underground for ages there.