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Re: iPhone dumbphone

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Post by dylan604 »

lifeinthevoid wrote: post #72

I have more issues with self control on my computer than on my smartphone. Anyone's got any tips for that one?

Are you using a desktop or laptop? I used to carry my laptop around with me to use whenever wherever as designed, and found myself always using it. Setting aside a dedicated desk space where I limit the use of the laptop made it much easier to just think of it as desktop and less mobile. Now, using it feels like I'm at work, and it is much easier to walk away from it.

Finding other things to do when bored instead of opening a browser is key. You're going to fill the time with something, so you have to find the something else.

Re: iPhone dumbphone

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Post by serial_dev »

jdthedisciple wrote: post #70

I never really quite got the motivation for this: The much more apparent issue is surely the lack of self-control, right? Which we all do at times. I'd rather feel confident I'm improving along that metric than to build guardrails for myself everywhere ...

It’s about setting up systems that help you succeed even if you are not perfect. It’s about facing the fact that you don’t always have enough self control, and minimizing self destruction when that happens.

I guess it’s like when recovering alcoholics, though ideally should just “simply” have self control, in reality it’s about removing booze from your apartment, getting rid of triggers, changing habits, friends, etc.

Re: iPhone dumbphone

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Post by gruez »

>"Dumbphone"

>installs e-reader apps, password apps, ridehailing/rental apps, music apps, gym apps, dev apps, home apps, "Your Internet Provider" apps (?)

???

I get that some of these are essential, but including home automation and gym apps is really pushing the definition of a "dumb phone". It just sounds like the author wants to avoid installing tiktok and games when he's talking about a "dumb phone".

Re: iPhone dumbphone

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Post by walthamstow »

modeless wrote: post #36

I don't understand why people leave email notifications enabled. There is almost no email I get that needs instant action. The one exception is delivery notifications, so I can retrieve the package immediately, and I used a filter to get notifications just for those.

The default setting is always king

Re: iPhone dumbphone

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Post by encom »

hs586 wrote: post #46
encom wrote: post #20

>Maybe you’re at a restaurant and they need you to open a website for example. Maybe I'll open the door and leave for a different restaurant.

Came to write something along these lines. I do this for restaurants, and sometimes for the places that refuse to take cash. But I do not have hope that such behaviour will impact the restaurants' policies: it's usually chains or non-owner-ran places that will have a "high-tech" policy and I am not sure if this kind of feedback reaches the decision makers. But these days (for now) finding another restaurant is easy.…

I was at a gym once that decided they wanted to do facial recognition for check-ins. I canceled my membership instantly (and told them why). Am I out of touch, or is that creepy beyond all reason?

Re: iPhone dumbphone

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Post by dkenyser »

em500 wrote: post #97
willio58 wrote: post #29

Interesting! I wish Apple would expand on "Assistive Access" mode. - https://support.apple.com/guide/assistive-access-iphone/set-... They made this for people with cognitive disabilities, but it also works great for older people. It just wouldn't work for me. I need Jira, Slack, and GitHub during work hours for example. But I don't want them during non-work hours. I realize I'm describing something actually doable in…

> I need Jira, Slack, and GitHub during work hours for example. So do I, but I certainly don't need them on my phone. For the longest time the only work app I had on my phone was some 2FA thing. Then asked them to either buy me a phone or a yubikey. I got a yubikey (and my phone complete free from anything work related).

To quote someone else in this thread: People live different lives.

Re: iPhone dumbphone

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Post by ubermonkey »

xboxnolifes wrote: post #63
modeless wrote: post #36

I don't understand why people leave email notifications enabled. There is almost no email I get that needs instant action. The one exception is delivery notifications, so I can retrieve the package immediately, and I used a filter to get notifications just for those.

If I don't get a notification for something, there's a good chance I'll forget to check emails/texts/etc for weeks at a time.

WAT.
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