"Out of concern for my privacy I have decided to switch to a phone that has an abandoned OS and I type messages to my wife using WhatsApp"
seriously?
My first three months with a Nokia dumb phone as a daily driver
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Re: My first three months with a Nokia dumb phone as a daily driver
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My Series 7 lasts all day and a night. Charges super fast. I've also found myself using it as a 'dumb but useful phone'. Having Apple Pay / train tickets on it has been surprisingly useful. The activity tracking has been surprisingly motivating. Hard recommend.
How does train tickets work? I’m in europe, and havn’t really looked into it… do you “share” the tickets to the wallet app? You have a “train” app on your watch? Just show a qr code in an email? Been wanting to set this up for a while…
I'm in the UK and I use the TrainLine app - it allows you to add tickets to Apple Wallet (and there's a watch app as well). Then you just scan the QR code on your watch at the ticket barrier.
Re: My first three months with a Nokia dumb phone as a daily driver
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I grew up with SM my whole life. I discovered that in a way became my safe space. Meaning that when i want to procrastinate because i fear doing something ( fear failure. Like right now that i want to study for my exams) i turn to that. When i close the tabs i feel a sense of what i will do now and i major FOMO. Maybe i built up an behavioral addiction. I don't question browsing on fb, twitter, hn but i question why…
Dare to make mistakes in getting good at yourself. People won't care or even remember them.
I agree. I think that i label myself a failure if i fail and then question my whole existence. hahahaha
Re: My first three months with a Nokia dumb phone as a daily driver
#74I switched to a real dumb phone (Nokia 105) as part of a lockdown project to re-focus my life and reduce my personal dependence on technology (which I strongly believe mostly gets in the way of being an effectual and productive human). One of the best choices I ever made.
Re: My first three months with a Nokia dumb phone as a daily driver
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Can you share more advice for a 23 year old who wants to dump the "social internet?"
Personally I use an app/domain blocker on my android phone, and I block social networks from /etc/hosts on my laptop, I also use the command "chattr +i /etc/hosts" to make it harder to unblock the social networks I blocked. Now the only social network I still use is Linkedin. But I also "waste" my time on other stuff now, so I don't know if it's better, the brain always find new ways to procrastinate I guess.
Can you explain the "chattr +i" this to me? I'm looking for something similar with website blocking
Re: My first three months with a Nokia dumb phone as a daily driver
#76As others have mentioned, this is not really a dumb phone. Sure it puts some more _friction_ into using modern Internet connected services, but you can still basically do everything a modern phone can do (it has a full modern browser). Heck you even get the modern experience of ads everywhere despite the limited screen and memory (the ads are all modal pages)! In fact, much of the review centers around "smart" featur…
Feature phone is the correct name.
Re: My first three months with a Nokia dumb phone as a daily driver
#77"Out of concern for my privacy I have decided to switch to a phone that has an abandoned OS and I type messages to my wife using WhatsApp" seriously?
> to a phone that has an abandoned OS
Huh, how abandoned is it really?
Re: My first three months with a Nokia dumb phone as a daily driver
#78I switched from an iPhone to Nokia 515 two years ago and vowed never to go back. If I wrote a blog post like this it would probably just be, "Living smartphone-free in the 2020's is like having a superpower, it's utter joy and freedom and and everyone still with a smartphone is a total sucker." Then a couple of weeks ago I felt the social pressure and lack of a good camera so I bought an iPhone 12 mini. It was awful.…
How do you deal with getting around (public transit timing, driving directions/traffic, uber/lyft) without a smartphone?
I order taxi with a call. Trying to avoid monopolistic services too.
Re: My first three months with a Nokia dumb phone as a daily driver
#79I tried moving to a proper dumb phone, a Nokia 105, a few years back. I found out that it’s a massive social disadvantage, very isolating and means you have to carry more crap around all the time and keep more context in your head. It’s ten times more difficult to adapt to changes without information at hand. Experiment ended after three months and I’m glad it did. I get the ideological thing here but realistically s…
> keep more context in your head.
That's the point. I call it "knowing what you need to be in control of your life".
> It's ten times more difficult to adapt to changes without information at hand.
I understand - for me, the argument goes that if I find myself needing to frantically google something, then I'm already on the wrong path. I accept this means that some lifestyles are not possible. Personally, I prefer it.
Re: My first three months with a Nokia dumb phone as a daily driver
#80I switched from an iPhone to Nokia 515 two years ago and vowed never to go back. If I wrote a blog post like this it would probably just be, "Living smartphone-free in the 2020's is like having a superpower, it's utter joy and freedom and and everyone still with a smartphone is a total sucker." Then a couple of weeks ago I felt the social pressure and lack of a good camera so I bought an iPhone 12 mini. It was awful.…
Wouldn't you get a better and cheaper camera if it's really a camera and not a phone?