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Originally Posted by BookWalker
You guys are so funny bantering back and forth 
And you've all been a great help. Thank you!
I'm about to have you picking yourself up off of the floor. Please be near something soft... I don't have a cell phone.  ... No no. You read correctly. I'm an expat living in South America. I don't have anyone to call locally, so I can't justify the cost of a cellphone. |
I had one of the very first "bricks" in Arizona (where I reside, for my sins). I even had a custom-designed briefcase to hold the cursedly heavy thing!
I was tethered to a cellphone for ages, whilst working in my then-chosen field. Once I left that arena, right around the housing collapse/crisis, I didn't have a smartphone for
dog's years. absolute yonks. Then I had a flip phone, for safety reasons--accident, call the cops, etc.
We then moved and we're in a mountainous location that has NO cell service, wait for it, inside my home. You have to walk out, away from the house, about 500 feet in any direction to get a signal. Do that in the middle of July or August, when it's 117°℉!
Nonetheless, here, it's become quite literally
impossible to live and use a computer
without one. You can't pass security tests, generally, without one. Amazon (on the publishing side) requires two-step validation/verification and it's a nightmare trying to get them to send an email, rather than a text message. Ditto my bank, which insists on sending me notifications of dicey transactions (I seem to get a lot of practice identity theft, for some bizarro-world reason), to my PHONE, not my email. Thus, I gave up and got a phone that's effectively a small computer, a Samsung Note 9. At least I can use the cursed thing, but...I don't blame you a'tall for not having one. :-)
Nonetheless, being pristinely technical and all that, Tex
is right. But for those of us that still love designed books, sigh....
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
So given that my solution will work, there's no need to keep this thread going trying to find other solutions. Problem solved and thread done.
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Jon, there's nothing wrong with trying to continue to find a better solution. Don't try so hard to close down the conversation or thread.
Hitch