I Want A Landline!
Oct. 26th, 2025 09:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
purplehello98On this episode of Lizzie Being A Luddite, I wish I had one of those cool purple see-through landlines like they had back in the 90s. Actually, my dream technology setup in my future apartment is a kitchen, where I'll keep the desktop PC on the counter (if I have one---otherwise, that'll be my main laptop's home) with a phone (and answering machine) in the kitchen, and then a phone on an end-table in the living room, one in my office and one next to my bed. Apparently landlines are actually quite expensive these days, but I found out there's a Bluetooth thingie that allows you to connect your cell phone to a landline! That means I could just put my cell phone in a desk drawer or something when I get home and have it go straight to my landline. My flip phone runs on Android---I wonder if that could still work on it? I wonder how it would handle texts---but then again, I prefer calls over texts anyways.
(Although I often seem to find a way to accidentally call people while they're at work!)
Anyways, I'm kind of sick of being reachable 24/7. If my phone didn't track my steps I wouldn't take it everywhere nearly as much as I do now. I think there's a beauty, a relaxing feeling to being off-life. Yes, I could just turn my cell on silent or off entirely, and I do do that, but I kind of resent always being reachable. It feels like my life has been encroached upon, you know?
And so one day, when I have my own place, that's what I think I'm doing! I also wish people would e-mail more, although I've successfully converted Blue and Green, as well as my suitor, into e-mailing me sometimes. I prefer longer-form types of communication, you know? The only exception is I have a real conversation on IM. If it's asynchronous, I don't like it, but if I'm sitting down with someone and we're IMing back and forth, I really like that! That's quite fun.
But yeah, what do y'all think? Landline, cell or both? I don't think I'll ever get rid of my cell entirely but it'd be nice to have a landline to go with it.
(Although I often seem to find a way to accidentally call people while they're at work!)
Anyways, I'm kind of sick of being reachable 24/7. If my phone didn't track my steps I wouldn't take it everywhere nearly as much as I do now. I think there's a beauty, a relaxing feeling to being off-life. Yes, I could just turn my cell on silent or off entirely, and I do do that, but I kind of resent always being reachable. It feels like my life has been encroached upon, you know?
And so one day, when I have my own place, that's what I think I'm doing! I also wish people would e-mail more, although I've successfully converted Blue and Green, as well as my suitor, into e-mailing me sometimes. I prefer longer-form types of communication, you know? The only exception is I have a real conversation on IM. If it's asynchronous, I don't like it, but if I'm sitting down with someone and we're IMing back and forth, I really like that! That's quite fun.
But yeah, what do y'all think? Landline, cell or both? I don't think I'll ever get rid of my cell entirely but it'd be nice to have a landline to go with it.
