Hey, to break it to you, bud. But I am never going to download your stupid app. It's never gonna happen, never gonna install it. And in fact, even if I wanted to, which I don't, I couldn't install it anyway. I view myself as somewhat of an activist. I'm an activist. I'm a big fan of civil disobedience. And my civil disobedience now is fighting against cell phones. Whenever someone wants me to use the cell phone, I'm just not gonna do it. Okay, now I'm not doing it for me. I'm actually, I actually am doing it for you. Okay, let me explain about that. That sounds kind of, I don't know, masturbatory to say all that. I'm kind of kidding, but I'm kind of not. Because the worrisome thing about cell phones is the fact that cell phones have gone from being some niche tool used by businessmen to something that's all over the place. But then they have gone from being a common thing to something that is becoming mandatory. Not just mandatory to have a cell phone, but it's becoming mandatory to use a cell phone for increasingly mundane things. And this is something that is now touching pretty much everyone in the world, right? So we can go ahead and give the melodramatic, I don't know, examples of, you know, there are some countries, let's say Australia. I don't know if they actually succeed in rolling this out, but Australia was trying to get their people to use this app, enforcing this app on people to take pictures of themselves at random intervals to send to the government. So that they know that they're being good boys and they're not leaving their house, right? They're still on that two weeks to stop the spread thing. I don't know what to deal with that is. So cell phones are already being used for the most absurd and obscene monitoring of people and control of people. And I might not be happening where you are. I don't know if it actually, maybe that app crashed and burned in Australia, hopefully people didn't, you know, give into it or hopefully it failed in some way. But, you know, a lot of people, the issue is, even on basic accounts on the internet, cell phone numbers are now required for basically everything under the auspices of security nonetheless, which is kind of absurd. Because, you know, back in the day, this is kind of hard for people to understand if you're young. Back in the day, if you wanted to log on to a site on the internet, you would have to give a username and then you'd have to give this thing, oh shoot, what was it called? You'd have to give this thing called a pass word. Okay, so what a password is, it's a word you give to someone to let you pass, right? So you would give the username and the password and that will log you into the account. Now that does not happen anymore because password, I don't know why people have passwords anymore. Because what you do now is you put in your username and password, then you get a call on your cell phone. You have to register your cell phone number and you have to get a text or a call or something like that. Then you get an email. Then maybe you even get an OTP aside from the text from your, that's actually how YouTube is. I have to get like, YouTube has, I have to put in my password, I have to do OTP, I have to get a text message or a call and then they still send me emails. So I mean, it's just freaking crazy. But that's how it is nowadays. And, you know, you might say, oh, that's for my security. Oh, I'm a security professional. And, you know, I think it's very, OTP has really revolutionized the industry and blah, blah, blah, listen. If you want more security, get a better password. Stop using your freaking grandma's middle name, like get a randomly generated password or some scheme for like doing that. Anyway, the thing that annoys me is that when it comes to security, this is the most unsecure thing in the universe. Okay, because look, companies get hacked every day of the year. And what is now happening is that people just don't, they don't just have accounts out there. They now have accounts that have their cell phone numbers attached to them. They have email addresses attached to them. So those two, those all three things are tethered. And additionally, if it's something money related, they will have like know your customer crap. That is, they will have literally home addresses. They will have like pictures of people and stuff like this. Yada, yada, yada. They will have all of this kind of crap. And that is not security. I'm sorry, like get a better password and like deal without that. Like, cell phones are not needed for this. Now, I will say, of course, if you're dealing with OTP, I do not use cell phones for any one time passwords. You know, the six digit things, that's what one time password is OTP is. You can do that on your computer. I use PASOTP for that. It's like a command line utility. I'm sure there are non command line utilities if you want something like that, but you don't need a cell phone for that. But I just find it very worrisome. There are nowadays, there are a lot of companies that put out apps. Like the only way to interact with the company is now by using only a cell phone. And in fact, in so many cases, it's a company that for years and years had you could just access them online on a browser. But now they're saying, oh, this functionality, we will no longer, we're now just gonna have it only mobile. So for example, there's a bank that I used to use that where, you know, you could scan checks, you know, on your scanner, or you could even take a picture of them and upload them in your browser. But then they started saying, oh, you know what? We're gonna have that on the mobile app. They allowed that as a possibility. But then they were like, actually, if you wanna scan checks, you have to use the mobile app now. So now, if I wanna scan checks and you know, cash them into that bank, I have to get an app on my phone, which means I have to be logged on to my bank account on my phone, which I think is like absolutely absurd. Like why would anyone, I don't know what you're thinking if you have like a banking app on your phone. Like that's just like, hey, could you please steal my money? Like that's basically what you're doing, especially if you're just like one pen number away from getting your money stolen. I'm just like, I can't, I can't conceive of that. But that is now required if you want to scan a check here. Or you know, I was setting up a Starlink earlier. This is why I'm thinking about this. And Starlink requires you. If you wanna change router settings or do all this other stuff, oh no, no, no, no. You can't get in a browser and go to the IP address of the router to adjust the settings. Now you gotta have the app, okay? My cell service provider, if you wanna activate a SIM card, they make you download their stupid app. Luckily you can do it on another phone and then move the SIM card here. So that's something that's happening now, where it used to be things that you could just do without worrying about them. You now have to have cell phone applications to do. In fact, there are many cases, actually, you know, I'm sorry, dozens of them are just flowing into my head right now. Like, Zell is another one. Like, Zell is kind of like a PayPal, but better, it's like a bank-to-bank transfer that you just need someone's email address to send the money if they're signed up for Zell. But the thing is they, the only way to set up Zell is to have the cell phone application. And you can't, like, you can't just do it on the desktop. You can't do it on their website. You have to use the cell phone application. And of course, in all of these cell phone apps, all of these corporate crap apps, you cannot just download the program. You can't just download the APK. You can't get them on Afterroid. All of them must be obtained from either the Google Play Store or the Apple Store, because they, for whatever reason, they require Google dependencies, the Google services, or stupid crap that they don't actually need. But the app requires it anyway, and they're not gonna distribute an APK because they don't care about you. So now, in order to do these basic things, you have to use a cell phone, the physical device, as a cell phone, you have to use Google Apps, and you have to use these proprietary, all of these are proprietary programs, right? They're not gonna show you the source code. So you have no clue what they're actually doing. But all of these are, you know, this is the issue with cell phones. It gets worse and worse and worse. And some, somewhere along the road, you gotta just put your foot down. And I've put my foot down pretty early, like I do not, again, I don't use Google services on my phone. I'm not going to, if an app requires it, I will not do it. If Starlink, listen, I love Starlink how it's worked. I think it's working great. But if they say it is not a mandatory, you have to use their app, and you can't change router settings without that, and in order to even use it, you have to be, I'm sorry, I'm canceling, because I'm putting my foot down in terms of, I am not allowing cell phones a greater share of my life. I mean, it's not really about me, again, it's kind of like, it's for, you gotta think about, you gotta think about my children, other people, what is the world gonna be like for them if they have to take pictures of themselves on their cell phone and send them to the government or corporation if they wanna get onto their banking application. I don't want that, okay? I want people to have access, the custodianship, not just of their money, but really all the technology that they use. And cell phones are a new way of tying your real life identity to accounts that don't need your real life identity. You don't need these digital services to be connected with your cell phone number, okay? So yeah, that's it. I hate cell phones. They don't just make you stupid and boring as a person. I don't know, they're part of, very bad things are happening because of them. That's all I'm gonna say, all right?