might be off-topic but I'm interested in your internet-less phone situation. Is this your choice, i.e a dumb phone? Or perhaps connectivity is bad where you are?
I’ve got an iPhone. It’s for moral and epistemological reasons that I don’t want be reduced to a servomechanism of a global information system.
At least not 24/7. I’m happy to submit myself to silly nonsense for a paycheck, which is pretty close to the definition of having a job!
I’m also a songwriter and I need to be observing the real world and not the mediated representation. It’s my job to create the mediated representation! And with killer guitar solos!
I do not have an internet connection on my phone yet I am as dependent on navigation systems as anyone else!