Re: Is it any less 'lovely'
My only issue is that this newfangled technology is specifically designed to spy, pry, invade our every previously private thought, quietly control our overall desires, and in most ways make us subservient to the government/corporate entities controlling the phones in the first place (which is especially entertaining when the corporate entities try various forms of election manipulation thinking they won't get discovered or that they actually have enough power to fully control democracies).
That key difference I think sets a decision to avoid or limit reliance on smartphones and IoT quite apart from traditional ludditism. Give me a pocket computer I fully control and I'll be happy -- for instance, I use IoT on my own terms, custom built and/or open source, but never commercial IoT tat.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
