# Do you know anyone who doesn't use cell phones, laptops, or any devices (in 2025)? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 8, 2025, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-anyone-who-doesnt-use-cell-phones-laptops-or-any-devices-in-2025/1018123 "2025-05-08T23:36:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-anyone-who-doesnt-use-cell-phones-laptops-or-any-devices-in-2025/1018123/41 "2025-05-10T18:25:41Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > … Amish. I spent a cross-country train trip with an extended Amish family. They found so much delight in older tech. One had been given a Game Boy Color for the trip: “Sister Lobelia put 22 games on this for me!” “Let me see!” “It’s so tiny!”“Do you have Centipede? I love that!” They’d use a simple flip phone, but among the twenty or so family members there were no smart phones. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2025, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-anyone-who-doesnt-use-cell-phones-laptops-or-any-devices-in-2025/1018123/42 "2025-05-27T11:14:08Z")
It’s kinda funny, our land line got so unreliable that we dropped the service. I put a cell phone antenna on our roof. You point it in the direction of the nearest tower, and then hard wire the antenna to a ‘repeater’ inside the house. Works great. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-anyone-who-doesnt-use-cell-phones-laptops-or-any-devices-in-2025/1018123.md?page=2)