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From: Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Not remembering new phone #
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 20:17:59 -0500
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*Hemidactylus* wrote:
> badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> wrote:
>>> On 13.03.24 05:30, Cameo wrote:
>>>> I have a fairly new phone number that I have a hard time to remember when
>>>> somebody asks for it. It would be nice if it would show up somewhere on the
>>>> opening screen, so I don’t have to search for it in the Contacts list. Do
>>>> you have a solution for this old-age problem?
>>>
>>> Forget all the earlier mentioned stoneage soliutions.
>>>
>>> https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207122
>>>
>>> You place this widget on your first home screen. That is the only
>>> adequate digital solution.
>>>
>>> I tried it it works with notes.
>>>
>>
>> Stone Age solutions are often the best because they’ve withstood the test
>> of time and aren’t dependent on the whims of electricity.
>>
> Going further back brain based memory works much better. Back in my day I
> had to remember far more than just my own phone number. Apparently just
> this one important number is one too many these days.
> 
> Of course I had written down multiple important numbers in a tiny black
> book especially for those called infrequently.
> 
> Of course back in my day kids received all available vaccinations which is
> no longer the case. Maybe we are on a downward spiral toward idiocracy. I
> don’t blame smartphones but the people who use them and the people they get
> their misinformation from.
> 
> I know…back in someone’s day people didn’t end sentences with prepositions.
> 

Hahahahaha. Thank you.