I cant believe people have to do this...what a world! nice to have the option I guess!
I really want to thank you for this comment; how it gave a well-needed jolt to my pride and taste for discipline.
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#12I cant believe people have to do this...what a world! nice to have the option I guess!
I don't think the author has to do this. They just prefer to.
Aside from not having a phone, how could someone not have the option?
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#13The active readers counter is a trip. I’ve read and viewed graphs depicting how much traffic HN can bring to a web page, but to see it in real time is something else.
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#14I wonder what the author is doing with those 2 extra hours of time he's not using his phone. I use my phone a lot, but I never feel like it's taking away from me doing anything else.
> 2 extra hours of time he's not using his phone.
Mostly reading. The 2 hours was a win for me, but the thing I appreciated even more was the that I feel less distracted throughout the day.
I remember reading about Ozempic, and how it "turns off the background food noise" that people have. I didn't realize this, but for me I have a "background notifications noise", which this hack has helped reduce.
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#15It's strange to call a device with access to Claude and ChatGPT a "dumbphone"
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#16The active readers counter is a trip. I’ve read and viewed graphs depicting how much traffic HN can bring to a web page, but to see it in real time is something else.
Author here: It's powered by Instant, the company I helped found.
The counter is pretty easy to set up.
Here's how it works on the blog:
1. You set up a schema:
https://github.com/stopachka/stopaio/blob/main/src/instant.s...
2. And then use `presence` to write an ActiveCounter:
https://github.com/stopachka/stopaio/blob/main/src/app/Activ...
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#17It's strange to call a device with access to Claude and ChatGPT a "dumbphone"
Strangely enough, I found Claude and ChatGPT crucial to making all this work.
In the essay:
> Whenever I need some information, I can just ask my LLM, and it can give me a distraction free summary. It helps the long-tail of weird situations too: for example if someone asks me to take a look at a website, I can ask my LLM to scrape it and summarize the details for me. It’s pretty hard to get distracted this way.
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#18somewhat simpler but paid (but pricey at $10 month) solution i’ll shill for is Opal. only app i’ve used that can actually lock app, set time limits, etc w a pretty great UI and config setup
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#19If you disable the App Store, as OP claims to, does that also stop installed apps receiving updates?
I think it only disable the icon, not underlying frameworks, etc
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#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.