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How to Stare at Your Phone Without Losing Your Soul

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Re: How to Stare at Your Phone Without Losing Your Soul

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

tomjen3 wrote: post #127
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #19

A few weeks ago I made an effort to connect more with local reality and less with the internet and its mountain of suck. To that end I removed all social media apps from my phone (I only had one), and disabled the news feed, search, and browser. I still have all the features I find actually useful, like weather, maps, alarms, calendar, etc. The first few times you mindlessly look at your phone after doing something l…

How did you disable the browser?

Android phone

Settings -> Apps and Notifications -> Chrome -> Disable

I can't even click on links in email. It's great.

Re: How to Stare at Your Phone Without Losing Your Soul

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Post by jmhammond »

tomjen3 wrote: post #127
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #19

A few weeks ago I made an effort to connect more with local reality and less with the internet and its mountain of suck. To that end I removed all social media apps from my phone (I only had one), and disabled the news feed, search, and browser. I still have all the features I find actually useful, like weather, maps, alarms, calendar, etc. The first few times you mindlessly look at your phone after doing something l…

How did you disable the browser?

On iOS, Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions > Allowed Apps

Then deselect Safari. I also got rid of Mail to force myself to check on my laptop.

Re: How to Stare at Your Phone Without Losing Your Soul

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Post by klyrs »

dredmorbius wrote: post #138
klyrs wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I quit a site, I change the recovery email to a burner, change the password to line noise, and log out. It doesn't stop the pangs, but it does stop me from logging in. I halfheartedly planned to quit HN at 10k karma, but that came and went. One of these days...

The most effective method I've found has been to start using a Google service and wait for it to be sunset. Other than that: yeah, I've generated and set some very long (40-80+ chars) passwords which I've promptly deleted from my own records on occasion. I don't think I've swapped out email addresses though that's an option. I could see that resulting in an account being hijacked though, depending on how email addres…

Every place I've used that, email addresses are not publicly visible. To compromise that, they'd need to guess the very long random email address and its very long random password.

Re: How to Stare at Your Phone Without Losing Your Soul

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Post by dredmorbius »

klyrs wrote: post #143
dredmorbius wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The most effective method I've found has been to start using a Google service and wait for it to be sunset. Other than that: yeah, I've generated and set some very long (40-80+ chars) passwords which I've promptly deleted from my own records on occasion. I don't think I've swapped out email addresses though that's an option. I could see that resulting in an account being hijacked though, depending on how email addres…

Every place I've used that, email addresses are not publicly visible. To compromise that, they'd need to guess the very long random email address and its very long random password.

I've seen instances where the password recovery workflow indicates the email address to which a reset request has been sent, or other mechanisms by which addresses may be revealed.

That's far less frequent now, and definitely not best practice.

However there may also be bugs and data breaches which reveal such information.

Re: How to Stare at Your Phone Without Losing Your Soul

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Post by aqeelsmith »

nobrains wrote: post #7

But its more than that. I might visit Reddit and Hacker News, not because the app summoned me via notifications, but because my brain summoned the app, after just a 15 minute hiatus. The issue is that browser and certain apps are available to me on the phone instantly. And there are no good controls to help me me MINDFUL. What I want from the phone (I use an iPhone): - Upon every unlock, or upon every app open, I sho…

I think you should try out one sec https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/one-sec-delay-apps-focus/id153...

It helped me a lot with my addiction to Instagram and the one second breathing helps put things into perspective. I end up (90%) of the time not opening up the app after my one sec.

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