Dumber phone

> You keep using your phone after it’s no longer needed to solve a problem.

There is a large amount of electro-acoustic musical output where the purpose was obviously to employ a particular piece of technology or software, rather than the technology/software being a means to realize some musical concept.

> You spend more and more of your time on your phone to get the same effects

The amount of time feel giddy by getting basic sounds out of the computer is rather small.

The amount of time to get something that sounds "professional" is months if not years.

The amount of time to get a timbre as compelling as an electric guitar is so great that you'd probably have to become a full-time filter designer and stop composing.

> You feel strange when you don’t have your phone.

> You can’t stop yourself from using your phone, even if you don’t want to.

I heard about a composer who pushed to get an electronic piece on a concert that was otherwise acoustic. (This composer had written acoustic pieces.) The organizer gave in and made an exception for this composer, who ended up eating the tech people's time trying to set up the AV equipment and scrapped the piece at the last minute because he couldn't get his laptop to work.

> You have a hard time giving yourself limits. You might say you’ll only use “so much” but then can’t stop and end up using twice that amount. Or you use it more often than you meant to.

I once heard a composer say that the average CPU load of their piece looked to small, so they added "stuff" to the piece to get a more impressive-looking workload.

> You’ve begun having trouble doing normal daily things without your phone.

I remember having a conversation with a composer who got up, ran to get his laptop because he wanted to write a convolution kernel.

> You drive or do other dangerous things (like use heavy machines) while you are on your phone.

Luckily for society this one doesn't apply.

> You borrow money to pay for your phone.

Or for a fancy Mac plus hundreds or thousands worth of proprietary software.

> You hide some phone use or the effect it is having on you from others.

Well, that one doesn't even really apply to phones.

The overall point is that maybe people initially do stuff like this because they're insecure and don't want to miss out.

You'll need some way to set "secure" settings – if you're not rooted, the easiest way is via a Tasker plugin called AutoTools. Once you've set that up, create a task with an action of "AutoTools Secure Settings", then configure it as follows (under "Custom Setting" in the AutoTools menu):

    - setting type: secure
    - name: accessibility_display_daltonizer_enabled
    - input type: toggle
    - value: 3

If it doesn't work, diff the output of `adb shell settings list secure` from a PC with greyscale mode enabled and disabled, and use whatever name you get there.

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I'm extremely skeptical that any population as a preternatural ability to detect novel forms of scams and exploitation. The smartphone slot machines are novel in that they steal your attention, which people were not primed to be as sensitive to as attempts to steal money.

While I'm not very familiar with Russia, I have a little more familiarity with China, and I don't detect anything there that makes me think that the Chinese are more resistant to smartphone addiction. If anything makes them different, it's the preexisting cultural emphasis that children should be studying or cramming for high-stakes tests pretty much all the time to the exclusion of pretty much everything else. That has nothing to do with a "more acute sense for somebody trying to abuse, fraud or attempt to extract money from them."