Who else can use your phone?
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Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
I'm comfortable adding a family member's fingerprint as an approved fingerprint to access my phone, but I haven't done it yet.
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
Work phone main software is passworded so kids mostly, mates are not to be trusted - woken up to shagging apps and grotesque screensavers
Personal shit Nokia? Have at it
Personal shit Nokia? Have at it
shakahislop
Well-known member
hate giving someone else my phone. it's like their hands are in my brain. phones are an intimate device. the microchips might as well be part of my body by this point.
Yeah, once - some old bloke got drugged and robbed in New Orleans and was trying to fly back to Arizona without any cash or cards. I let him call his unimpressed wife on my mobile, and gave him $20. He was a jackass - a couple of flirty young girls approached him in a bar, and he was so flattered he missed the roofy...the NOPD were like "what did you expect?".
But in general, nah, I don't lend anyone my phone unless I know them - how much of a cunt would you feel handing it over, and then them running off? I'd be too embarrassed to report it.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
I do feel like now, with fingerprint scans or even 6-digit unlock codes, and with so many phones being remotely traceable via Find my Phone and whatnot, the incentive to steal phones is pretty low most of the time, unless the thief targets a high-value person's phone and has the knowledge or tech to hack into it.
mixed_biscuits
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You mean you let them keep their fingers?
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
While they're alive, yes.
shiels
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Same i can’t do it. My phone is all filth so have to watch someone use it and I’ll snap it out or their hand if they veer off course
IdleRich
IdleRich
It's got a password so not just anyone can pick up and use it. But if one of my friends asked me the password or asked to borrow it briefly I'd most likely let them. As with any other of my possessions I would expect people to ask before borrowing.
But what you're getting at, I think, I don't feel violated letting someone else use it. I guess a lot of my secrets etc are in there but, it's not that they're hidden as such, but they're sort of dispersed in a way that maybe mirrors my mind and so I don't think letting someone use it would be embarrassing in a coherent way.
Though maybe I'm fooling myself.
But what you're getting at, I think, I don't feel violated letting someone else use it. I guess a lot of my secrets etc are in there but, it's not that they're hidden as such, but they're sort of dispersed in a way that maybe mirrors my mind and so I don't think letting someone use it would be embarrassing in a coherent way.
Though maybe I'm fooling myself.
mixed_biscuits
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Knock yourself out
What if there's a covid on it?
shakahislop
Well-known member
they are intensely private things. the most private of all machines
shakahislop
Well-known member
more intimate than a ventilator or an iron lung
yyaldrin
in je ogen waait de wind
one akward situation is always when someone wants to show you a photo that they took but first have to scroll through their entire album, you feel that they would have preferred to look up the photo first but also don't wanna turn the phone away because that would mean they have something to hide, so you feel their anxiety scroll scroll scroll quickly
yyaldrin
in je ogen waait de wind
yeh if i'd leave my phone somewhere and i would find out someone going through my photos or messages i'd be angry.