Disconnect. Offline only
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Disconnect. Offline only
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#2Well done, I had the urge to google the second most commonly spoken language while reading the article.
I turned my phone in some kind of a "dumb phone":
- Deleted all games, news apps, basically all the apps I don't regulary need
- Turned off email. It's still configured, I turn it on if I need to read an email
- No push notifications at all
Next step: Turn off mobile data for browser and only activate it if I need to read something. I'm just not ready yet!
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#3Well done, I had the urge to google the second most commonly spoken language while reading the article. I turned my phone in some kind of a "dumb phone": - Deleted all games, news apps, basically all the apps I don't regulary need - Turned off email. It's still configured, I turn it on if I need to read an email - No push notifications at all Next step: Turn off mobile data for browser and only activate it if I need…
Next step: "dumb" phone.
Next step: no phone.
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#4Well done, I had the urge to google the second most commonly spoken language while reading the article. I turned my phone in some kind of a "dumb phone": - Deleted all games, news apps, basically all the apps I don't regulary need - Turned off email. It's still configured, I turn it on if I need to read an email - No push notifications at all Next step: Turn off mobile data for browser and only activate it if I need…
Next step: "dumb" phone. Next step: no phone.
Sure, the smartphone is a great thing to take with you when something unpredictable happened and you're forced to wait 1/2/10 hourse, and you didn't take anything with you (a book, your computer, etc).
But how often does this happen, and how often, instead, does a smartphone distract from better tasks? How often I choose not to pick a book when leaving, because I've got the smartphone "just in case" ? Of course I have ebooks on it, but many times I waste time on facebook/HN/twitter/surfing. It's TOO EASY to get distracted.
Re: Disconnect. Offline only
#5Well done, I had the urge to google the second most commonly spoken language while reading the article. I turned my phone in some kind of a "dumb phone": - Deleted all games, news apps, basically all the apps I don't regulary need - Turned off email. It's still configured, I turn it on if I need to read an email - No push notifications at all Next step: Turn off mobile data for browser and only activate it if I need…
Next step: "dumb" phone. Next step: no phone.
I guess more work could be done around limiting features on a device when outside of a set period. For instance, Data services could be restricted outside of a person's normal working hours. Or if not just data, limiting all features that aren't core to a phone, taking it back to simple calls and text messaging.
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#6Hmm, in Chromium developer tools, in the Network tab, I set throttling to "Offline", but nothing happened in the page.
Re: Disconnect. Offline only
#7Well done, I had the urge to google the second most commonly spoken language while reading the article. I turned my phone in some kind of a "dumb phone": - Deleted all games, news apps, basically all the apps I don't regulary need - Turned off email. It's still configured, I turn it on if I need to read an email - No push notifications at all Next step: Turn off mobile data for browser and only activate it if I need…
Next step: "dumb" phone. Next step: no phone.
> Next step: "dumb" phone.
> Next step: no phone.
Next step: no nothing
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Next step: "dumb" phone. Next step: no phone.
Sure, the smartphone is a great thing to take with you when something unpredictable happened and you're forced to wait 1/2/10 hourse, and you didn't take anything with you (a book, your computer, etc). But how often does this happen, and how often, instead, does a smartphone distract from better tasks? How often I choose not to pick a book when leaving, because I've got the smartphone "just in case" ? Of course I hav…
Interesting. I have a smartphone that doesn't interrupt me at all, because it doesn't run any of the apps that tend to do so — this is a Meizu Pro5 running the now abandoned Ubuntu Touch; I'll probably jump over the UBports soon. It does have a web browser though.
Last week I was in London as a tourist visitor, and being able to pull up the local public transit planner (https://tfl.gov.uk) and OpenStreetMap were just conveniences that a mobile computer seems particularly well suited for.
Effectively it's a pull-only smartphone. Nothing is being pushed to me, so nothing takes me out of the moment.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Next step: "dumb" phone. Next step: no phone.
Sure, the smartphone is a great thing to take with you when something unpredictable happened and you're forced to wait 1/2/10 hourse, and you didn't take anything with you (a book, your computer, etc). But how often does this happen, and how often, instead, does a smartphone distract from better tasks? How often I choose not to pick a book when leaving, because I've got the smartphone "just in case" ? Of course I hav…
For me smartphone was the way to get back into book 'reading' in a way. I now mostly consume audiobooks and I have probably read more in the past year than in the ten years that preceded my subscription.
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#10Hmm, in Chromium developer tools, in the Network tab, I set throttling to "Offline", but nothing happened in the page.
It listens to the online and offline events (using https://github.com/chrisbolin/react-detect-offline which is really cool). You really have to turn off your network connection.
Or fire the event yourself using window.dispatchEvent(new Event('offline'))