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You're basically fucked if you don't have a smartphone nowadays because it's like your wallet/keys/money/bank/email/notepad everything in one. And yet at the same time it spies on you and spams you with notifications and ads.
Overall the necessity and ubiquitousness of our tech but it's also hostile to the user and almost inescapable.
My car insurance provider didn't mail me an insurance card, I need to have their app on my phone, but I forgot to reinstall the app after I switched to a newer phone. Of course I got pulled over and couldn't provide proof of insurance. By the time I downloaded the app again the cop said "we're past that" and I had to go to the court house to prove I had insurance at the time of the stop.
So convenient!
That cop was a complete cock, but we’re way past that (with cops).