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Re: The NoPhone

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Post by adolph »

agumonkey wrote: post #41
jascii wrote: post #17

I've seen wooden handcrafted versions of this and thought: "Cute, I guess there might be niche market for it". Chunks of useless throwaway plastic that will end up polluting our oceans, not so cute.

a small rounded plate with a mirror, nophone selfie pro

A Claude glass (or black mirror) is a small mirror, slightly convex in shape, with its surface tinted a dark colour. Bound up like a pocket-book or in a carrying case, Claude glasses were used by artists, travelers and connoisseurs of landscape and landscape painting. Claude glasses have the effect of reducing and simplifying the colour and tonal range of scenes and scenery to give them a painterly quality. The user would turn their back on the scene to observe the framed view through the tinted mirror—in a sort of pre-photographic lens—which added the picturesque aesthetic of a subtle gradation of tones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_glass

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26524041

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14439863

Re: The NoPhone

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Post by spicybright »

1. Buy a joke, laugh 2. Put it in a drawer for 10 years 3. Throw it away, eventually into the ocean to add more microplastics as it breaks down.

Maybe just laugh of the idea but don't actually buy it.

Re: The NoPhone

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Post by themacguffinman »

jjulius wrote: post #44
an_opabinia wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> ...Phones often are an all-in-one coping mechanism for other issues While I agree in principle for healthy people, it's a waste of time, but for people for whom light entertainment is their medicine... would you rather they be drinking? This comes up a lot re: video game addiction. The jury's still out on the impact of social media and light entertainment (i.e. YouTube) on mental health. UK teens for example are do…

>... but for people for whom light entertainment is their medicine... would you rather they be drinking? While I don't find anything wrong with light entertainment being one's medicine, why make the assumption that drinking is the next viable 'medicine' in line? Are there not countless alternatives to drinking to remedy "boredom, stress, loneliness, etc."? Picking up hobbies? Sports? Anything else? Edit: I want to cl…

Isn't a similarly low-effort activity like drinking the more likely alternative for the kind of person who relies heavily on social media to fill their lives? Higher effort activities like hobbies and sports and such are obviously healthier alternatives, but anyone can already do them and they probably would if they had any inclination to do them in the first place.

Re: The NoPhone

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Post by earthboundkid »

offtop5 wrote: post #53
silicon2401 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

breaking the phone habit is imho one of the best things anybody can do these days. Phones often are an all-in-one coping mechanism for other issues: boredom, stress, loneliness, etc. One of the best things I ever did was get off all social media, force myself not to even pick up my phone except to respond to a call or text, and just confront the boredom. After a few minutes of no phone you find yourself actually doin…

Reading a fantastic book called Digital Minimalism on this very subject. Back when I used social media I noticed I'd be very angry arguing with people I didn't even know. Never meet anyone with a job. Deleted all that crap, moved , and had an amazing partner( she had a JOB) within a month. Life is right here, if your at a coffee shop and you notice someone reading a book that seems interesting ask about it. Works out…

HN is social media.

Re: The NoPhone

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Post by earthboundkid »

s1mon wrote: post #47

For $7.50 you can get a dummy phone which looks a lot more realistic. A quick search on Aliexpress shows this for the iPhone X, and there are plenty of other options. (I had a bunch of the iPhone 8 models for a work project. The only downside is the glass is most definitely NOT Gorilla Glass). https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001708486523.html

Back when I lived in Japan, stores had plastic dummy phones to show you what they looked like and let you pick them up. I guess that went away when the “Galapagos style” phones died off.

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Post by Waterluvian »

silicon2401 wrote: post #9
surfsvammel wrote: post #7

This is fun and all, but also incredibly sad. My fiancée previously complained that I was staring at my phone too much (and she was absolutely right). So, I decided to minimise it. Remove all apps and notifications, and kept it in a corner of the kitchen instead of in my pocket. Even though she has not increased her screen time, it is now obvious to me that SHE is staring to much into that screen. We are all phone ju…

breaking the phone habit is imho one of the best things anybody can do these days. Phones often are an all-in-one coping mechanism for other issues: boredom, stress, loneliness, etc. One of the best things I ever did was get off all social media, force myself not to even pick up my phone except to respond to a call or text, and just confront the boredom. After a few minutes of no phone you find yourself actually doin…

Boredom is amazing.

I spent four hours today demolishing a deck alone. I was afraid to break my phone so I left it.

Four hours of work without music or podcast. My brain went to all kinds of places and I solved like five different coding problems I was faced with at work.

I should really bill my employer.

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Post by ISL »

hypertele-Xii wrote: post #43
dan-robertson wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One silly trick: put your phone into greyscale mode. Without the colours, a lot of the addictive time sinks are just less exciting.

Hacker News without orange? Oh my.

You might not be aware, but it is possible to change the color of your top-bar in your profile once you have more than 250 karma.

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Post by euske »

Now what I want to see is a real clinical study of quitting (or reducing) addictive phone use with this thing. Because fake cigarette can actually work for some people quitting smoking, why this one wouldn't? The same technique might work for video games or social networks too.

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Post by JackMorgan »

aidenn0 wrote: post #48
JackMorgan wrote: post #42

I prefer my Palm phone[0]. It is so tiny I can't really DO anything with it unless it is a legit emergency. But when I do need it, there is wifi, cell, browser, google maps, and gps. The "life mode" is fantastic, no calls or notifications at all until you unlock the screen. Combined with a really short battery life when the screen is on, it is the perfect daily driver for me and my outdoors lifestyle. Also charges in…

If that only had enough storage for my music and a fingerprint unlock, I'd get it. Really even just a fingerprint unlock would be enough. I can't stand face unlock.

I just use the regular swipe code, frankly I'm not opening it that many times a day anyway, I think it's a feature not a bug.

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Post by daniel_iversen »

dan-robertson wrote: post #27
surfsvammel wrote: post #7

This is fun and all, but also incredibly sad. My fiancée previously complained that I was staring at my phone too much (and she was absolutely right). So, I decided to minimise it. Remove all apps and notifications, and kept it in a corner of the kitchen instead of in my pocket. Even though she has not increased her screen time, it is now obvious to me that SHE is staring to much into that screen. We are all phone ju…

One silly trick: put your phone into greyscale mode. Without the colours, a lot of the addictive time sinks are just less exciting.

Yes!! I love greyscale mode so much! Here are some other tips I found helped me (incl using Screen Time as a pattern interrupt!) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-simple-immediate-hacks-impr...
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