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I prefer my Palm phone[0]. It is so tiny I can't really DO anything with it unless it is a legit emergency. But when I do need it, there is wifi, cell, browser, google maps, and gps. The "life mode" is fantastic, no calls or notifications at all until you unlock the screen. Combined with a really short battery life when the screen is on, it is the perfect daily driver for me and my outdoors lifestyle. Also charges in…
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Isn't a similarly low-effort activity like drinking the more likely alternative for the kind of person who relies heavily on social media to fill their lives? Higher effort activities like hobbies and sports and such are obviously healthier alternatives, but anyone can already do them and they probably would if they had any inclination to do them in the first place.
That's an unwarranted assumption. Phones, games, apps, and social media are, quite literally, engineered to be addictive. Addiction is powerful . There are plenty of cases of star athletes ending up as homeless junkies, and this isn't because they lacked the ability to engage in higher-effort, healthy hobbies. Especially for the generation of kids raised on (and often by) smartphones and tablets. Breaking those addic…
You've managed to take... Well a bunch of things which do not create physiological dependency and decide they're exactly equivalent to opiates.
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.
The waste it produces for no reason is in my opinion unconscionable - I spent more time than I admit checking through the site to see if it's a parody with no real available product, and then double checked the comments here hoping to validate that the whole thing wasn't real.
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Reading a fantastic book called Digital Minimalism on this very subject. Back when I used social media I noticed I'd be very angry arguing with people I didn't even know. Never meet anyone with a job. Deleted all that crap, moved , and had an amazing partner( she had a JOB) within a month. Life is right here, if your at a coffee shop and you notice someone reading a book that seems interesting ask about it. Works out…
Someone reading a book at a coffee shop probably doesn't want to be bothered by someone asking about it.
I prefer my Palm phone[0]. It is so tiny I can't really DO anything with it unless it is a legit emergency. But when I do need it, there is wifi, cell, browser, google maps, and gps. The "life mode" is fantastic, no calls or notifications at all until you unlock the screen. Combined with a really short battery life when the screen is on, it is the perfect daily driver for me and my outdoors lifestyle. Also charges in…
I prefer my Palm phone[0]. It is so tiny I can't really DO anything with it unless it is a legit emergency. But when I do need it, there is wifi, cell, browser, google maps, and gps. The "life mode" is fantastic, no calls or notifications at all until you unlock the screen. Combined with a really short battery life when the screen is on, it is the perfect daily driver for me and my outdoors lifestyle. Also charges in…
I found setting my phone to black-and-white makes me want to look at it less. On iPhone, the setting is buried under accessibility > display and text size > color filters
I absolutely hate this. It's funny, as a joke, but the fact that someone has produced, marketed and made this drives me insane. The waste it produces for no reason is in my opinion unconscionable - I spent more time than I admit checking through the site to see if it's a parody with no real available product, and then double checked the comments here hoping to validate that the whole thing wasn't real.