Reply To: Losing the battle against technology? ⚔️ 📵

Thanks guys for trying to help me. Yes there are 2 issues- the SMS one, and the passcode one. The SMS one is annoying at times, but not critical. I remember at some point having something online that received the SMSs- somehow I forgot about that, probably because that matter is not so pressing. And I have actually gotten voice mail messages to my landline that were originally texts- don’t know how though. The problem is, though that these websites ask to enter a cell phone number- which in Israel has 1 more digit in the area code than a regular number and always starts with 05- (for that reason I don’t think an american number would work either), so I can’t trick it into sending me a voice mail text. Somehow, the cell phone doesn’t seem to be able to convert the text- unless I just haven’t figured it out. But that problem could be solved by getting a non-kosher dumb phone with texting ability (do they still sell those?) We also did try one of those shechted phones that Daas Yochid mentioned, since my husband was finding it difficult not to be able to get his work emails when he was not sitting in front of the computer. But somehow the SIM didn’t work with the phone, we tried two different companies and then gave up on it. We still have that phone- SIMless. Theoretically, I could try that to work, try other companies that might be compatible with that particular phone.
To clarify, I am not against technology per se. The title did not say that technology is bad. I use technology all the time, as many posters have pointed out (by the way, I think we can all agree that when we say technology we are talking about recent inventions and not things that may have been technological advances 100 or even 30 years ago). My concern is that devices that are not neutral (meaning not only bring us benefit but also can do us harm) are taking over everything, and we no longer seem to have free choice in whether we can use it or not. Let’s compare it to tv- if I feel that it is harmful to me for whatever reason- a time waster, exposure to inappropriate content, then I can choose not to have/watch one. That is my choice. But when it comes to smart phones, I am losing the freedom to make that same choice, and that is what I meant that the battle is lost.