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Re: Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone

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Post by keybored »

iLoveOncall wrote: post #17

I haven't seen any of those apps (or built-in OS features like screen time on iOS) not become useless in a matter of days. People that will use their phone for distraction (which I don't think there's actually anything wrong with) will take only a few days to get "notification fatigue" from those screens and automatically bypass them without even thinking about it. I get that you can prevent bypassing the screen as y…

Right. Because these things require some thought and analysis if you truly think that you yourself are having issues with screen time or other attention-related issues.

I may or may not have that right now but I for sure did some years ago. And if you are having issues with your attention? Boy, loading on more stuff that you are supposed to “attend to” for sure does not help. Someone who is having self-reported issues with their attention is not going to see some automated mindfulness message and go, oh wait time to slow down and take a good gander at what I want to spend my attention on right now.

On the contrary that will just tire them more. Which makes them more susceptible to losing their awareness or attention.

But people who think there is one-weird-trick to fixing these issues are incapable of understanding the +1 attention problem: that loading more stuff onto the person is not going to help.

Re: Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone

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Post by compootr »

deskr wrote: post #245
throwawayk7h wrote: post #241

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can usually do OTP from your pc directly, just install an OTP application on your pc like keepassxc

Security dept. would like to have a word.

security theater dept. has entered the chat

Re: Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone

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Post by autoexec »

cglong wrote: post #234
poincaredisk wrote: post #232

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But that's ok your work phone right? At least I hope you didn't agree to have it installed on your private phone. For work phone I guess a good strategy is to avoid installing anything non-work related, so the temptation to use it for anything is low.

Not GP, but I'm okay installing that stuff on my personal phone because it's isolated via Android Work Profile.

How is that keeping Microsoft from accessing your GPS, sensor data, wifi, camera/microphone etc? Sure, they can't get at SMS or your other apps and your work won't have access to your entire device but it means MS can still access your location (using GPS and nearby bluetooth/wifi), record audio/video, read/control sensors (accelerometer, proximity, gravity, temperature, pressure, magnetic field etc), have full network access, etc and can record and collect that data whenever they feel like it for the most part.

Re: Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone

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Post by iLoveOncall »

anteloper wrote: post #244
iLoveOncall wrote: post #17

I haven't seen any of those apps (or built-in OS features like screen time on iOS) not become useless in a matter of days. People that will use their phone for distraction (which I don't think there's actually anything wrong with) will take only a few days to get "notification fatigue" from those screens and automatically bypass them without even thinking about it. I get that you can prevent bypassing the screen as y…

> I haven't seen any of those apps (or built-in OS features like screen time on iOS) not become useless in a matter of days. This isn't consistent with the data. I'm a cofounder of Clearspace and we see that when people make it through the first two weeks, they stick around for months or years. YMMV - because our feature set looks slightly different - half users are in a mode where you have to do pushups to unlock di…

> This isn't consistent with the data. I'm a cofounder of Clearspace and we see that when people make it through the first two weeks, they stick around for months or years.

And how many make it through the first two weeks? I'll take a guess and say less than 1%.

Re: Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone

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Post by johnisgood »

cglong wrote: post #234
poincaredisk wrote: post #232

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But that's ok your work phone right? At least I hope you didn't agree to have it installed on your private phone. For work phone I guess a good strategy is to avoid installing anything non-work related, so the temptation to use it for anything is low.

Not GP, but I'm okay installing that stuff on my personal phone because it's isolated via Android Work Profile.

You may want to try "Shelter" (https://f-droid.org/packages/net.typeblog.shelter/).

Re: Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone

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Post by yazzku »

Mashimo wrote: post #90
skynet97 wrote: post #20

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Nobody can help the weak minded. However, they need to learn that the rest of us is no longer willing to reat them like grown up adults.

> However, they need to learn that the rest of us is no longer willing to reat them like grown up adults Yes! Outcast the people who have an addiction. I'm sure that will help get them back on track! Have you ever thought about writing a book?

It's like self-help but flipped on its head. They're going to need a new section for it at the bookstore.

Re: Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone

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Post by hackernewds »

bornfreddy wrote: post #225
TeMPOraL wrote: post #213

I installed this in the morning to give it a test drive, and after several hours, I learned the following: it's great when I reach for the phone as a distraction; it's a big annoyance otherwise. E.g. each time I want to change the currently playing song, what was muscle memory gets scrambled by the interruption. Or, when I'm taking a lot of photos (like on my daughter's kindergarten event today), I tend to keep the s…

Maybe the app should kick in only if you start using one of the "bad" apps, like a browser or a social network app? Being in the way when I want to snap a quick photo doesn't sound nice.

this is 100% what I want, and I'd gladly pay $10/month for this
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