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Re: iPhone dumbphone

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Post by CGMthrowaway »

dwedge wrote: post #165

> Consider email. I still need to have access to email, and I want to have notifications enabled so I don’t miss something truly important. But 90% of the emails I get aren’t important. I was at a talk at FOSDEM this year and they were talking about how most emails now (over 90%) are transactional in nature and not personal. Things like password resets, offers, 2fa, shipping confirmations. This was a lightbulb moment…

Gmail has ben doing this for years, automatically. And it works very well. I think a lot of people don't know the feature exists, though

Re: iPhone dumbphone

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Post by parallax_error »

_jsmi wrote: post #180

Alternate solution I haven’t seen anywhere else: 1. Screen time to disable browser, App Store etc. 2. Type random 4-digit passwords until you forget. 3. Use your own Apple account as reset. 4. Remove apple password from password manager. Store in “Notes” app or similar on computer. 5. Lock this app storing password behind mandatory typing of gibberish using Cold Turkey on desktop. Works well for me. I will mention th…

Can’t you click the “ignore limit” button when trying to open a restricted app though?

Re: iPhone dumbphone

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Post by _jsmi »

parallax_error wrote: post #182
_jsmi wrote: post #180

Alternate solution I haven’t seen anywhere else: 1. Screen time to disable browser, App Store etc. 2. Type random 4-digit passwords until you forget. 3. Use your own Apple account as reset. 4. Remove apple password from password manager. Store in “Notes” app or similar on computer. 5. Lock this app storing password behind mandatory typing of gibberish using Cold Turkey on desktop. Works well for me. I will mention th…

Can’t you click the “ignore limit” button when trying to open a restricted app though?

No, the password sets a strict block.

Re: iPhone dumbphone

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Post by ASalazarMX »

CGMthrowaway wrote: post #181
dwedge wrote: post #165

> Consider email. I still need to have access to email, and I want to have notifications enabled so I don’t miss something truly important. But 90% of the emails I get aren’t important. I was at a talk at FOSDEM this year and they were talking about how most emails now (over 90%) are transactional in nature and not personal. Things like password resets, offers, 2fa, shipping confirmations. This was a lightbulb moment…

Gmail has ben doing this for years, automatically. And it works very well. I think a lot of people don't know the feature exists, though

Although it really does, the algorithm is outside your control and scrutiny. An artisanal white list is totally under your control, and fully portable. Break the shackles.

Re: iPhone dumbphone

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Post by black_puppydog »

CGMthrowaway wrote: post #181
dwedge wrote: post #165

> Consider email. I still need to have access to email, and I want to have notifications enabled so I don’t miss something truly important. But 90% of the emails I get aren’t important. I was at a talk at FOSDEM this year and they were talking about how most emails now (over 90%) are transactional in nature and not personal. Things like password resets, offers, 2fa, shipping confirmations. This was a lightbulb moment…

Gmail has ben doing this for years, automatically. And it works very well. I think a lot of people don't know the feature exists, though

Except gmail pretty unexplicably filtered away stuff like a direct response from my boss, to an email I specifically sent to him half an hour ago. After a couple of these hiccups, plus hours spent trying to locate emails that I knew existed and even knew the right keywords for, I just disabled any and all of their filtering (which is, unsurprisingly, not just a checkbox...) and access gmail exclusively through Thunderbird.

It's inexplicable to me how google, of all companies, can be so consistently shit at search across all their products.

Re: iPhone dumbphone

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Post by zeckalpha »

bornfreddy wrote: post #143
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…

> 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. Not an iPhone, but my solution to this is LineageOS + microG, where I just disable push notifications when I'm not working, or enable them for just the few select apps if I am expecting some messages there. The price for this is that I don't always receive the social app message w…

I use an old iPhone for work stuff.

Re: iPhone dumbphone

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Post by homefree »

The configurator is interesting and something I haven't heard of before!

It's a double edged sword because the amount of time I spend online (X) has been directly responsible for the most valuable opportunities and generally knowing enough of what's going on to leverage that for big financial and career returns. It was pretty easy to drop all non-X social media though (all meta) and just avoid short term video generally.

I've been tempted to try the lightphone 3 though - theory being if I have a separate hardware device that might be enough to help because I can leave the iPhone at home. In theory the Apple Watch could do this, but in practice it hasn't.

Another thing I think can work is committing to avoid using it for one day a week - you get a lot of the benefits, it's more doable, and the downside is minimized.

Re: iPhone dumbphone

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Post by inshard »

You could also just ask a spouse or family member to set your screen time pw and disable safari. Install parental controlled browser like Spin Browser. And also disable image loading in the settings of Spin Browser. This was a small but significant factor in screen time. Just the images on websites! No more limbic over stimulation!

Re: iPhone dumbphone

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Post by 5555624 »

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.

>I don't understand why people leave email notifications enabled. There is almost no email I get that needs instant action.

People are different and have different use cases and needs.

i don't have them enabled; but, the email address I use for my Android phone and tables is used only for those devices.I've neer used my primary email address on a mobile device. Email can wait until I'm at a computer.

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