▲ 1340 ▼ its even more outdated (lemmy.dbzer0.com) submitted 2 years ago by covert_czar@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/memes@lemmy.ml 411 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] JonSecadaNightRanger@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Why do they they disable data? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] drlecompte@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) An irrational fear of suddenly using all of it up. Before they got their phones, we drilled it into them to be conservative in their data usage. It's not that they complain that they have too little data, or how annoying it is that they have to leave it switched off to conserve it, they somehow are convinced that it is pointless to leave it on. We have mentioned numerous times that we'd be fine with upgrading their data plan, but they don't want to. It's like us in the nineties dialing into our ISP to download e-mail. Weird. Cheap. But weird. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] JustAManOnAToilet@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Saves battery too if on a trip. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] drlecompte@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) An irrational fear of suddenly using all of it up. Before they got their phones, we drilled it into them to be conservative in their data usage. It's not that they complain that they have too little data, or how annoying it is that they have to leave it switched off to conserve it, they somehow are convinced that it is pointless to leave it on. We have mentioned numerous times that we'd be fine with upgrading their data plan, but they don't want to. It's like us in the nineties dialing into our ISP to download e-mail. Weird. Cheap. But weird. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] JustAManOnAToilet@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Saves battery too if on a trip. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JustAManOnAToilet@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Saves battery too if on a trip. permalink fedilink source parent