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New phone can make calls and send texts, but it cannot access social media

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Re: New phone can make calls and send texts, but it cannot access social media

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Post by rangerdan »

Raed667 wrote: post #20

I need a connected phone that isn't built for addiction. For example, I need Uber for the rare cases where I'm in a jam at 3 AM and need to get back home. I need maps for when I'm looking for directions. I need a web browser to access my bank and the occasional Google search. I can live with or without Whatsapp or Signal, that depends on how much you use it I guess. However, I don't need Facebook, Twitter or TikTok o…

> I need [x] that isn't built for addiction.

You're going to be waiting a long time and perhaps will never solve this problem with technology. Healthy diet, healthy relationships, diet and exercise will help you overcome addition, not waiting for a miracle cure from tech gods.

Re: New phone can make calls and send texts, but it cannot access social media

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Post by hammyhavoc »

8jef wrote: post #66

The perfect phone, to me: * Wifi only * GPS * Square e-ink touchscreen, 3 inches across * QWERTY hardware keyboard * Thin foldable a la razor * Latest LTE tech worldwide bands for future proof network compatibility * Micro SDXC slot * USB-C with host and audio capabilities * Removable battery * De-googlized AOSP with F-Droid * Some good hardware hi-def DAC * 3.5mm audio out * Decent camera for photos, don't care abou…

I'll take a family's worth of them.

Re: New phone can make calls and send texts, but it cannot access social media

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Post by gpas »

jpmoral wrote: post #65
gpas wrote: post #62

My Xiaomi note has a super eco mode. One home screen, up to 9 apps (I opted for Vivaldi, telegram, whatsapp, camera, newpipe, maps. Obviously phone, contacts, sms). When I found the feature I used it on when my battery was about to die, now it's my default productive mode. Battery is super happy to see the charger once or twice a week. It's a feature phone? No. But it's my camera, gps nav, notebook, mp3 player. All t…

That's amazing. And here I was impressed by my Nokia smartphone's 2-3 day battery life. How does the home screen app count restriction work to preserve charge?

It limits background activity on those apps, like telegram is sometimes slower to receive when closed. No multitasking, no animations, no gestures.

I guess that most of the battery savings come from disabling all other apps' background activity and always on sensors.

Re: New phone can make calls and send texts, but it cannot access social media

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Post by hammyhavoc »

bamboozled wrote: post #44
Raed667 wrote: post #20

I need a connected phone that isn't built for addiction. For example, I need Uber for the rare cases where I'm in a jam at 3 AM and need to get back home. I need maps for when I'm looking for directions. I need a web browser to access my bank and the occasional Google search. I can live with or without Whatsapp or Signal, that depends on how much you use it I guess. However, I don't need Facebook, Twitter or TikTok o…

What would be cool is if voice assistants get to the point where you can just talk to the phone to get an Uber etc.

Would need to be a privacy-respecting voice assistant. Think we will be waiting a very long time. Besides, Uber is ethically questionable.

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Post by hn8788 »

prostoalex wrote: post #56
throwawaygh wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> However, I don't need Facebook, Twitter or TikTok or any social app. So... don't install those apps? I guess that's easier said than done. I keep an `/etc/hosts` list of distracting websites (includes HN) and route them all back to my hobby trello task board. Message to myself being, "hey, distractions from work are fine, but wouldn't you rather be working on one of these things than screwing around in a comments s…

Cal Newport in “Digital minimalism” has a plan of attack for addictive loops. 1) force yourself to use the mobile web site vs the dedicated app 2) at the end of the session log out, increasing the friction of using the app mindlessly

Another thing I've started doing that works for me is removing a page from the history on my browser. It's easy to mindlessly browse something like reddit when I can just type 'r' and hit enter because the browser autocompletes sites in my history, but even the 1 second it takes to type out 'reddit.com' gives my brain time to realize there's nothing in particular I wanted to look at, and I was just going there out of habit because I was bored.

Re: New phone can make calls and send texts, but it cannot access social media

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Post by hammyhavoc »

FridayoLeary wrote: post #68
danirod wrote: post #14

Looking at the official website trying to understand what's the value of this mobile phone over any cheap feature phone from Nokia: https://mudita.com/products/pure/ . The device has an e-ink display and claims to have a very good speaker. The operating system has a meditation app and an "inspirational quotes" app. I'm still curious about which kind of person would purchase a device like this instead of a feature pho…

Modern Nokias are user hostile. (edit: try one out)

Using one. Care to elaborate?

Re: New phone can make calls and send texts, but it cannot access social media

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Post by jimkleiber »

throwawaygh wrote: post #26
Raed667 wrote: post #20

I need a connected phone that isn't built for addiction. For example, I need Uber for the rare cases where I'm in a jam at 3 AM and need to get back home. I need maps for when I'm looking for directions. I need a web browser to access my bank and the occasional Google search. I can live with or without Whatsapp or Signal, that depends on how much you use it I guess. However, I don't need Facebook, Twitter or TikTok o…

> However, I don't need Facebook, Twitter or TikTok or any social app. So... don't install those apps? I guess that's easier said than done. I keep an `/etc/hosts` list of distracting websites (includes HN) and route them all back to my hobby trello task board. Message to myself being, "hey, distractions from work are fine, but wouldn't you rather be working on one of these things than screwing around in a comments s…

Ahhh I love this. I tried to do something like this for an app I built for self-reflection. Basically anytime FB or Twitter would send me a notification on Android, I would have the phone also send a notification for iFeelio and ask if I would rather check in with myself than with others. It seemed to work for a while, by I was really dancing around Android permissions and I don't know if that's still possible today on Android, and most certainly not on iOS.

Re: New phone can make calls and send texts, but it cannot access social media

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Post by hammyhavoc »

jumelles wrote: post #43
danirod wrote: post #14

Looking at the official website trying to understand what's the value of this mobile phone over any cheap feature phone from Nokia: https://mudita.com/products/pure/ . The device has an e-ink display and claims to have a very good speaker. The operating system has a meditation app and an "inspirational quotes" app. I'm still curious about which kind of person would purchase a device like this instead of a feature pho…

The focus on radiation is... strange. It even shows up under the SIM card section: "Although we would have liked to only use 2G, the least harmful radio frequency, it is currently being phased out around the world. We spent a good amount of time trying to find a flexible, modern and global GSM module, which could be used for travelling anywhere in the world. With the user’s health in mind, Pure always chooses the low…

Anti-vax no-new-normal types most likely.
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