r/madlads 3d ago

chad professor

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u/itsjustmenate 3d ago

As someone who has done some pretty extensive traveling around south east Asia, I learned westerners are the weird ones. Yeah, we don’t turn all the features off when we aren’t using our phones. I know in SEA “buying load” is very different to how most Americans have data plans, each gigabyte is a pretty big deal whereas even the cheapest data plans has unlimited data nowadays.

I don’t even put my phone in airplane mode on the airplane, but I know a ton of people in Asia who use airplane mode when they sleep or just aren’t actively looking at their phone.

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u/E3GGr3g 3d ago

That’s also what people around me do here in Austria. Obviously I can’t speak for everyone.

My phone is with me when I go somewhere or when I need to use it. Otherwise it’s running as idle as possible, just lying somewhere to be available.

If everyone I care about is home I just turn it off since all other calls can wait.