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Post by platz »

jschwartzi wrote: post #220
dasyatidprime wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You'll be much happier for it, but can you afford it? If you've got the kind of social life and communication you need, great. And I agree that many people who are in an accidental too-much-FOMO situation probably didn't need all the extra tweets and whatnot flung their way and it's mostly junk. In that case, just turning most of it off is a reasonable idea. But if you're in a position where the communities you need…

Maybe you need to find different communities. Being part of something isn't a need, it's a want, and you either accept that you want to be there and take the good with the bad, or you accept that you don't like the bad and give up on the good.

Ask any psychologist wether being part of something is a need.

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Post by mantas »

mkirklions wrote: post #182
mantas wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try Pomodoro time management approach

That isnt the issue. Its that I need my phone on, and Im getting slammed with notifications.

Try to view to it every 25 minutes (or whatever your preferred time slot is)?

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Post by dwaltrip »

vinceguidry wrote: post #181

The yearning for fewer options for distraction is curious to me. I can understand the desire for fewer interruptions, but me choosing to kill a few minutes here and there playing Threes or Fire Emblem Heroes or perusing a Quora feed isn't the grand evil people seem to think it is. After all, it's not like my brain just stops. Particularly when I play Threes, only a portion of my mental energy is devoted to playing th…

> If you're so mentally disorganized that phone apps destroy your peaceful calm...

This is an incredibly arrogant and uncharitable statement.

You'd be well served to make less assumptions about other people.

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Post by gh02t »

e40 wrote: post #229
peacetreefrog wrote: post #125

There are a lot of "hacks" in this thread (put your phone in grayscale, put variable reward apps in a folder, turn off fingerprint sensor) but in my experience the mindset is by far the most important part. What's worked for me (and the article talks about this too) is viewing my phone as a tool with a limited set of functionality. For me, that functionality is: calls, texts, Google maps, Spotify, Audible, podcasts,…

I'm older than most of you here. I'm constantly amazed at the lack of self control related to phones. I do exactly as you said, use my phone as a tool. Walking to work and think of something I don't want to forget? Whip out the phone and write myself an email. At home on a weekend and I'm in offline mode? DnD turned on until the alarm on my phone the next morning. I never feel like my phone is controlling my behavior…

I'm under 30 and I don't get it either. I use my phone to communicate and perhaps read the news if I'm waiting at the pharmacy or something, but I don't understand a lot of the comments here regarding addiction to their phones. Not saying it isn't a real struggle for some people, but it's a foreign concept to me.

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Post by Naracion »

About a year or so ago, I changed the launcher app on my Android phone to the Linux CLI Launcher (then called t-ui Launcher) [1]. This was a revolutionary step towards changing my interaction behavior with my phone. Now, I had to _type in the names of the apps_ that I wanted to open. There was _zero_ visual candy that attracted me and prompted me to needlessly open Instagram. I stopped compulsively checking these apps, moved to using Chrome only in the bus during commute. Every month I'd run "ls -apps" to see what apps I have installed. The first time I ran it, I did not even recognize most of the apps on the list. I have a much happier (and snappier) phone now free of bloat apps, and as a result a much happier and more productive version of me (at least no reduction in productivity due to phone distraction).

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ohi.andre.cons...

edit: grammar, reframe

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Post by kgdinesh »

BartBoch wrote: post #56
procparam wrote: post #19

One huge distraction-enabler is the fingerprint sensor. It makes things too easy for me - I put my hand in my pocket, put my finger on the sensor, and by the time it's in front of my face I can be mindlessly browsing reddit. So I would add the following tip: disable the fingerprint sensor if you have one (also face recognition, etc), and replace it with an inconveniently long password. This way you really need to thi…

You can always set your fingerprints for the other hand instead. This will force you to switch hands which requires more complexity.

Interesting. I'm gonna try this and see.

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Post by sothym »

Naracion wrote: post #285

About a year or so ago, I changed the launcher app on my Android phone to the Linux CLI Launcher (then called t-ui Launcher) [1]. This was a revolutionary step towards changing my interaction behavior with my phone. Now, I had to _type in the names of the apps_ that I wanted to open. There was _zero_ visual candy that attracted me and prompted me to needlessly open Instagram. I stopped compulsively checking these app…

This launcher is great, thanks for sharing.

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Post by nurettin »

Naracion wrote: post #285

About a year or so ago, I changed the launcher app on my Android phone to the Linux CLI Launcher (then called t-ui Launcher) [1]. This was a revolutionary step towards changing my interaction behavior with my phone. Now, I had to _type in the names of the apps_ that I wanted to open. There was _zero_ visual candy that attracted me and prompted me to needlessly open Instagram. I stopped compulsively checking these app…

This is great, I was trying to modify termux as a launcher just to accomplish the same thing.

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Post by AnnoyingSwede »

As i got my new Sony Z5 a year back i had a look on the resource usage i had on my old Z1. Any app that consumed amounts of bandwidth and/or battery was never installed/uninstalled on the new phone. This made me drop the facebook app, tinder, all games.

It still allows me to login to facebook via the browser if i need to respond to something during they day or want to post a picture but dropped the fiddling with the phone down to less than half on an average day.

It also allowed the phone to work for 2 days on a single charge.

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