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Re: The NoPhone

#11
post #5
post #2

(2014)

That means it had some time to mature and get over teething problems, apart from not being vaporware anymore.

Yeah, but their software updates come too few and far between for my taste. And come on: no security bugs in all those years? Coverup!

Re: The NoPhone

#15

Hilarious -- but does it actually help anyone?

Funny gift perhaps? There are multiple "nothing" products at Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/CRAZY-STONE-Nothing-Everything-Transp...

https://www.amazon.com/Deluxe-Box-Nothing-Stocking-Anniversa...

https://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Stocking-Stuffers-Anniversary...

https://www.amazon.com/Witty-Dehydrated-Essential-Hilarious-...

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#16

This is fun and all, but also incredibly sad. My fiancée previously complained that I was staring at my phone too much (and she was absolutely right). So, I decided to minimise it. Remove all apps and notifications, and kept it in a corner of the kitchen instead of in my pocket. Even though she has not increased her screen time, it is now obvious to me that SHE is staring to much into that screen. We are all phone ju…

I've gotten in the habit of turning mine off regularly. I'll just turn it off in the evening and turn it on in the morning if I don't need an alarm (which... I have an alarm clock, I just tend to not use it).

I use it mostly for person to person communication and kid photos (the only things on my home screen are Messages, Signal, Hangouts, Element, the actual phone app, and the camera - everything else is buried over in the App Library), I've got most distraction websites blocked with 1BlockerX (not that it's hard to get around, but it's a good hurdle to jump), and about the only notifications I get are messages from people, plus emails on infrequent accounts (main account is poll only, no notifications).

It works well, though I still struggle with how much time can go vanishing down the rabbit hole of "I'm bored, I wonder what's on the internet today..."

I really need to get a "house phone" set up on an old cell phone. Get one of those "You only pay if you use it" plans, though I expect the spammers and scammers would cost me a lot of money that way.

Re: The NoPhone

#17
I've seen wooden handcrafted versions of this and thought: "Cute, I guess there might be niche market for it".

Chunks of useless throwaway plastic that will end up polluting our oceans, not so cute.

Re: The NoPhone

#18

This is fun and all, but also incredibly sad. My fiancée previously complained that I was staring at my phone too much (and she was absolutely right). So, I decided to minimise it. Remove all apps and notifications, and kept it in a corner of the kitchen instead of in my pocket. Even though she has not increased her screen time, it is now obvious to me that SHE is staring to much into that screen. We are all phone ju…

News, asynchronous communication, and other media have a payoff structure not unlike a slot machine's. It can be genuinely hard to determine whether one's consumption of any of them is irrational.
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