Love Aziz Ansari, i remember a few years back he mentioned in his act that he was using a flip phone, wondering what device he is using now. I have to be honest this is always the pull I have back to a flip phone because it is such a bad ass &^% you to the system lol. To not have email or a smartphone is living life on your own terms. But as celebrities they have the advantage of assistants etc.
I just love this quote by Christopher Nolan in this same article:
In January, Christopher Walken told The Wall Street Journal that his relationship with technology is nearly nonexistent.
āI only have a satellite dish on my house. So Iāve seen āSeveranceā on DVDs that theyāre good enough to send me. I donāt have a cellphone. Iāve never emailed or, what do you call it, Twittered,ā
The word āprivilegeā in the article caught my eye:
Speaking to People in September, Ansari said he knows that his ability to live offline comes with a certain level of privilege and isnāt realistic for everyone.
My Approach
- It is liberating to be able to tell others that your cellphone cannot open email and cannot navigate to URLs that they may want to text-message to you.
- You can give yourself that liberating privilege by using an email-free cellphone such as a Mudita Kompakt or a Sunbeam Wireless flip-phone.
- I enjoyed this privilege when I used an F1 Orchid for three years before replacing it with a Kompakt.
- I also enjoyed this privilege when I used a Kompakt for a few months before selling it because it lacked the voicemail and group-messaging features that are standard in the USA.
- And, I plan to enjoy this privilege again when I replace a deGoogled Pixel 4a soon with an F1 Pro Maple.
- Kompakt owners should rejoice in the liberating privilege that Kompakt provides out of the box of being email-app-free!
ā¦ such as the Nokia 1208, which is REALLY email-free as you canāt even sideload anything. That is true freedom and minimalism.
Never used any of it because what for ? Narcissistic supply ? Then all you get is drama and hatred, as you can see on social media.
In my village, Facebook group is primary means of communication, and even interaction with elected officials. 
Other than that, I have FB only on my laptop (never installed it or Messenger) and News Feed Eradicator - so I am mostly using FB for one or two groups like that, I donāt even care suspending the add-on for few minutes to scroll any more. Even if, I hid all my friends from the wall and only few observed pages could show their content. Unfortunately something then breaks FB algorithm and it began throwing random stuff at me, hence News Feed Eradicator.
Here officials wonāt even listen, especially not via Facebook. Maybe a train horn could do the trick
Well, I mean officials of a municipality that is inhabitated by 10-20k people. It canāt be that bad.
I doubt a train horn would do it, but remove the word āhornā and you might be onto something lol
I like your humour