<story><title>Feeling uncomfortable when leaving phone at home shouldn&apos;t be normal</title><url>https://vaidik.bearblog.dev/feeling-uncomfortable-when-leaving-phone-at-home-shouldnt-be-normal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sysadm1n</author><text>Well not that I live in a bad neighborhood or anything like that, but you really don&amp;#x27;t know &lt;i&gt;what&lt;/i&gt; could happen at any given moment, and need to phone emergency services. This is not paranoia (well maybe it is), but paranoia doesn&amp;#x27;t work retroactively, you have to be proactively paranoid.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re concerned about privacy buy one of those cheap Nokia dumbphones that old people use. Keep your smartphone at home, and swap out the SIM from the dumbphone to your smartphone if your threat model requires you to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>akira2501</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a radio I can use to summon help.  Why would I _ever_ want to be without that?&lt;p&gt;Turn the notifications off,  or get something like Tasker that can turn them off and on for you on a schedule.  Otherwise,  keep it in your pocket.  This device has no control over you that you don&amp;#x27;t allow it to have.</text></comment>
<story><title>Feeling uncomfortable when leaving phone at home shouldn&apos;t be normal</title><url>https://vaidik.bearblog.dev/feeling-uncomfortable-when-leaving-phone-at-home-shouldnt-be-normal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sysadm1n</author><text>Well not that I live in a bad neighborhood or anything like that, but you really don&amp;#x27;t know &lt;i&gt;what&lt;/i&gt; could happen at any given moment, and need to phone emergency services. This is not paranoia (well maybe it is), but paranoia doesn&amp;#x27;t work retroactively, you have to be proactively paranoid.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re concerned about privacy buy one of those cheap Nokia dumbphones that old people use. Keep your smartphone at home, and swap out the SIM from the dumbphone to your smartphone if your threat model requires you to.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quantified</author><text>Pre-phones, it just wasn’t something you thought about. If you came up with a phone, you just may not be able to get it.</text></comment>