Let’s be honest: Your phone is a jerk. A loud, demanding, little pocket-size jerk that never stops buzzing, dinging, and begging for your attention. It’s the first thing you see in the morning and the last thing you see at night. Enough!
Now, I’m not talking about tossing your phone into a volcano. I’m talking about swapping it out for something simpler.
And you don’t have to go full Luddite. Here are some unique options that scratch the itch of modern c
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Spoiler alert: In each and every such instance, the email in question was, in fact, shady a
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