On the blog this week was… Admitting my continued love of Blackberry and if physical keyboards on phones are worth it. Blog is on  ObscuredNarration.com right now. This podcast allows me to go deeper on this topic.

For some time, I’ve been fixated on finding the right mobile device for  me. A device that’s curated just for my use case, not a black slab of  glass that is just a notification vehicle. In my heart I thought this  was a device with a physical keyboard. Thinking of this I fondly  remember my days as a Blackberry Curve user and how much I loved that  phone. But now, I’m not so sure if I wanted it for getting more work  done, or if my rose-colored nostalgia for the early days of smartphones.

This podcast has undergone a lot of changes and big gaps in publishing, I recognize that. I tried to cover the news and that just set me up for failure. I follow news closely but I’m not a reporter. Instead of a podcast this will be more of a journal (which is what I  changed my blog into as well). I need a place to talk about the random  tech shenanigans I’m up to, what I’m learning and what’s rolling around  in my brain. This isn’t what’s always at the top of the news cycle.  Sometimes the news might trigger it.

I dislike where tech is going. Often “tech enthusiasts” are just  people who know how to use a laptop or phone and just does the things  the company that makes it tells them to do. When they run into a  problem, they just look for another app to fix it. These are the same people that wait for huge keynotes so the company  can tell them how to use the device and what new apps will fix their life’s problems.

Budget tech is about biggest bang for your buck. Its about making  things last longer. Its about finding solutions, using critical thinking  to find and build your own solutions. Its about fixing things yourself,  not subscribing to Apple Care

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