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Why I Disappeared – My week with minimal internet in a remote island chain

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Post by arjie »

leobg wrote: post #81
arjie wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use personal software: https://overmod.org/ If I'm being entirely honest I made it in a very 'scratch-my-own-itch' way so you're better off just writing it yourself. Example idiosyncratic choices I went with: all lists are public, allow subscribing to other people's lists, no login required for lists, only Google Chrome support. I doubt anyone else shares those preferences.

I like your killfile lists > Roshan's Socialism Slop I omce made a podcast screener for my kids, and that was a category I screened for there as well.

I’m glad you like it. Besides the entire promotion of external loci of control I find the repetitiveness so grating.

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Post by sdoering »

pegasus wrote: post #162
sdoering wrote: post #151

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I can easily read up, research the actual behavior of any candidate, their program (aka promises they won't keep) and what the party line is (as program - see before) and in the last few years, when actually putting in their votes on any issue. I tend to prefer "just in time" and "up to date" research to "just in case" spamming my brain with noise. But I also know how easy it is for me to fall down the rabbit hole of…

I agree it's hard to not get sucked into the soap opera aspect of it all. Taking a break once in a while is a healthy strategy, but I think ultimately the sweet spot is to be informed about the important developments as they happen, something that shouldn't take more than 30 mins per day of watching news and political analysis while preparing food etc. After all, there's more to the democratic process than just votin…

I have set up a few alerts and feeds I check semi-regularly. And I have a script sending me a summary of important world, regional, local news as a pushover notification in the morning. So I get two pushes - one is for the weather report, one for global events that might impact my life (I am still in the process of dialing in the sensitivity level of what the report should contain).

Because - on the other hand - I am very much interested in advances in different sciences and would love a better report on actual advances (and not just BS headlines about some new weight loss thing or currently alien speculations from interstellar objects)...

But I am getting there over time. So that I can increase the signal to noise ratio a bit.

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Post by inemesitaffia »

modeless wrote: post #57

You can have good internet on remote island chains for $50/month with Starlink. Today, being without is as much a choice there as it is here.

It's available there. And the National Telco has a Starlink community gateway capable of 10 Gbps.

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Post by wolvoleo »

larodi wrote: post #163
troyvit wrote: post #159

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Why does it take a trip to the Galapagos to disconnect though? We could just as easily block access to all our socials (including HN) for a week and probably still do fine at our jobs.

blessings, indeed, you are right. but is not easy, right?

You also don't have to go to the Galapagos. Going hiking costs almost nothing (ok though the gear might cost a fair bit)

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Post by wolvoleo »

lapcat wrote: post #7
sallveburrpi wrote: post #3

Escaping the internet on a luxury trip doesn’t disprove political conflict… it just shows how privilege can opt out of reality and sell the experience as clickbaity insight.

It's definitely privileged to take a trip to the Galapagos, but I don't think it's privileged to ignore the news. A lot of poor people ignore the news. They may be too busy, or they may feel powerless to change anything. I think the real question is what exactly this entirely content-free statement means: "I’ll be focusing more on stories that actually matter instead of chasing the flash-in-the-pan ephemera that nobo…

I ignore the news a lot too. For the reasons you mention, I can't change anything and it only makes me angry seeing all the far right nonsense happening. There's no point anymore. I just follow the tech news now. It does lead to me being out of touch with some local stuff though but who cares. I'm in some pretty niche communities anyway so what goes on in the mainstream isn't that relevant to me.

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Post by lrvick »

nephihaha wrote: post #130
lrvick wrote: post #23

I just got rid of my smartphone, which forces me to spend a lot more time thinking when I am not at home. Would highly recommend.

Now with digital ID, our rulers are trying to force us to have them.

I look forward to seeing them in court for trying to force me to accept Google or Apple terms of service.
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