What I really like about the whole concept is that there’s no way for non-digital contacts to reach me. No text messages or voice calls. If I need to make a dial call, I can fire up a Google Voice session I already have setup. Anyone that needs to call me can reach out on Matrix via a Bridge, and anyone that needs to phone me [doctors?], can leave a message on my google voice. I never pick up the phone anyway, so I’d much rather just get a silent notification that I have a voice mail than have to have my brain disrupted.
The only real sticking point that I can think of is turn by turn navigation, easily, but I can still do it on my watch [Garmin] if I absolutely needed it. Google maps is a bloating piece of shit anyway. I almost just want to go back to paper maps.
What I really like about the whole concept is that there’s no way for non-digital contacts to reach me. No text messages or voice calls. If I need to make a dial call, I can fire up a Google Voice session I already have setup. Anyone that needs to call me can reach out on Matrix via a Bridge, and anyone that needs to phone me [doctors?], can leave a message on my google voice. I never pick up the phone anyway, so I’d much rather just get a silent notification that I have a voice mail than have to have my brain disrupted.
The only real sticking point that I can think of is turn by turn navigation, easily, but I can still do it on my watch [Garmin] if I absolutely needed it. Google maps is a bloating piece of shit anyway. I almost just want to go back to paper maps.
For vehicle navigation, Waze is amazing.
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