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Disconnect. Offline only
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a great way to convince yourself you're becoming some sort of productivity Übermensch and never end up speaking to your friends again.
> and never end up speaking to your friends again. No, you just need to move to a place where nobody has a phone. It's great to spend every day outside having adventures, face to face with people!
So lets get some high-level steps here;
1. Cut all ties and move to either an Amish settlement or a country with no or little access to electricity.
2. Locate the local stand-up of disillusioned 10x'ers.
3. Romp and play among the trees and hills 24/7.
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
> and never end up speaking to your friends again. No, you just need to move to a place where nobody has a phone. It's great to spend every day outside having adventures, face to face with people!
You can't write that kind of comment and not give examples of such places.
Africa has a wide selection of such places, but there is a fairly high chance any 'adventures' may be interrupted by child soldiers.
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#174Personally just knowing that wasn't of much help, so I made a simple application to help me stay disconnected https://github.com/mistnim/coin-op-web
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
Starting? Like ten years ago they started and now it's in nearly every plane.
I'm in Europe, and fly 4-5-6 times a year. It's only in the last 5 years that you're allowed have electronic devices turned on in planes here.
I think you are referring to take-off/landing parts of the flight.
There is a reason behind that, AFAIK the airplane uses lots of sensors that these devices may interfere with, otherwise normally they are allowed.
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#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
> As the author points out, we've forgotten how to be bored. I find outdoor activity to be one of the best way to be 'bored'. You have to focus on what your body is doing, you're back in nature, you'll be getting exercise. Leave the podcast/spotify at home.
I advocate for taking time off to literally do nothing. No schedule. No purpose. No clocks. Just get up and operate based on the sun's movement and your own bodies needs. Be bored. Slow down time and fully disconnect from work. It's a hell of an experience.
I'm on vacation this week and did exactly this on Sunday-Tue. It's Wednesday now and I feel feel very, very refreshed and relaxed. Focus is much easier today than it has been for some time.
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#177to me, using cron to disconnect my internet every half an hour just to remind me to break the loop has been immensely helpful. And annoying. But mostly helpful. My brain switched to offline mode has about three times better focus. Similarly to this, I'm using my browser in full-screen mode most of the time to eliminate distractions. It was very surprising to me, how big an effect it has, to not see the tabs.
a cron job to disconnect - love it! do you use the break to get up and stretch, too?
Most of the time, yes.
But if you wanted a break from PC instead of internet, I can recommend workrave, it's built exactly for this purpose.
Cron job mostly serves to remind me to use internet as a tool, not as something that is constantly on. Building this awareness of how I am using it is immensely helpful.
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#178dispatchEvent(new Event('offline'))
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#179The funny thing is, smartphones are all but useless for many tasks the minute you go into airplane mode. There are exceptions, but you're basically holding a client to a distributed operating system which has appropriated many of the promises of wearable personal computing for corporate profit. So yes, if you've already ceded your right to not be inturupted by running apps like Twitter and Facebook in the background,…
Although I would prefer to be very strongly critical of the corporate model of the distributed operating system, (and particularly I'd like to relate it to Marx's concept of alienation, commodity fetishism and the tighter control of the 'free market of ideas' which turns out to be a 'free market' dominated by monopoly of Google in particular as they freqently turn out to be), I'm not sure what else I would do with a…
I found Zeal to be of some use as you can download a ton of documentation for offline use.
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#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
Although I would prefer to be very strongly critical of the corporate model of the distributed operating system, (and particularly I'd like to relate it to Marx's concept of alienation, commodity fetishism and the tighter control of the 'free market of ideas' which turns out to be a 'free market' dominated by monopoly of Google in particular as they freqently turn out to be), I'm not sure what else I would do with a…
Richard Stallman was largely motivated to start project GNU because he took issue with the appropriation of source code by corporations and other proprietors, which he saw as replacing the communal way of writing and consuming software at the MIT A.I. lab. My feeling is that we are seeing today a similar appropriation, not of source code (most people who use computers at this point now see them as appliances, and wou…
> John McCarthy admitted this much when he conceded that most Americans are TV watchers anyway and won't need a home information terminal to do research, and Neil Postman wrote about the negative effects of television in his 1984 book, "Amusing Ourselves to Death".
Zooming out just a little, Guy Debord's "Society Of The Spectacle" talks about this same stuff on a higher level.