You don't provide any more information, and are promoting your own site here without even saying so despite your name being on the About page. This felt like clickbait.
Many dumbphones only support technologies (2G, 3G, etc.) that are actively being deprecated at the moment. If you are using a modern one, you still get rid of many useful things like maps, Signal and WhatsApp (the latter I've found is sometimes critical for interacting with some companies that have migrated their support there, like my ISP). Are there dumbphones that support just those two features? If not, then I don't feel like moving over to one is realistic.
Rather, just don't install whatever application is distracting you, and try simply turning notifications off. I still can't believe how many people simply don't have the willpower to do this.
On the battery life point, when you remove a lot of this cruft, you'd be surprised how much gain back as well, since you're also not staring at the thing with the screen on all the time. I'm on a 5 year old iPhone mini that I'm still regularly getting two days out of.
Another pet peeve: graphs should have axes that start at zero, or clearly point out why they are zoomed in. It's to easy to mislead readers otherwise, and great for making something sensational.
> To opt-out from our anonymization of your personal information to perform data analyses, please provide your Mastercard or Maestro payment card number
Does this mean you're opting out of the anonymization, but not the collection of personal information?
I would says it's almost definitely written to be confusing. See their privacy FAQ also:
> Does Mastercard share transaction data?
> We do not share transaction data without consent or as otherwise legally permitted such as in the context of fraud prevention.
That's a yes or no question. Instead of answering it with a resounding YES they instead reply with some waffle about "legally permitted context".
They also miss out that they sell services that access that data. So an external party might not be able to see it directly but they can pay Mastercard to do the same customer monitoring for them.
It is deliberately confusing, but ultimately the meaning behind seems to be "this particular data collection is not for personal advertisements, we got that covered in some other way".
If landlords could raise prices to make more money, why wouldn't they already be doing that? Rents aren't priced based on landlord expenses. Otherwise we'd see rents plummet when a landlord pays off their mortgage.
I did this for a friend once too, for a year and a half. My friend had been running backpackers, and lost the business (and their place to stay) fast and unexpectedly when the building it was in was sold to a hostile landlord. It paid off. He's back on his feet.
I see people like investments; in cases like this, I didn't want to profit in the classic sense, but I did want to see my friend succeed, and I knew my friend had it in him. All I needed to do was provide a roof over his head for a bit.
I'm sorry to hear you had a negative experience here. There are success stories out there though. In the end, its about taking the right risks for the right people.
Different South African here, but I grew up in Durban and now live in Cape Town, with regular visits to Johannesburg (2-4 times a year). Single-glazing is used in all three by default, despite the climate being quite different in all cases. Durban is tropical; winter (we joke that it doesn't have one) is dry, and summers are wet, but its warm year-round. Temperatures can vary quite a bit between seasons in Joburg and Cape Town. Cape Town has a Mediterranean climate; summers are warm and windy, while winters are cold and wet, often getting to 7°C at night (it's a cloudless 25°C summers day today though). Joburg can get a little colder, although its a much more dry kind of cold.
I respectfully disagree. I did exactly this for a number of years. A colleague (and is now friend since we've both left said company) made it clear he would not work overtime without compensation (and never did), but his day-to-day work was excellent. He knew he had a skill they required, and was good at it (and our skill sets were the same).
Our careers both grew at about the same pace for four years. He became known as the go-to guy for green-field projects, while I was the guy you could put onto over-budget tight-deadline projects to rescue them. I worked a lot of weekends for my troubles, and I always envied how he ended up on the "fun" projects. I learnt a lot from him. As a professional, some self respect is required, or you will be abused.
I have a 1977 MGB and a 2005 MG TF. I still prefer the MGB; its easy to drive, cheap to maintain (relative to buying any new car today), and you have the added benefit of being able to fix things yourself (if you're so inclined) with part availability still reasonably good after all these years (and I am by no means an actual mechanic).
I've already encountered issues with the MG TF regarding the electronics, and the difficulty in fixing things there due to proprietary lock-in (and it's 17 years old). Simply creating a spare key is a nightmare. It makes me wonder what the future of repairability on newer cars with deeply embedded but proprietary software will be like.
