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Why I'm glad my iPhone broke
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Re: Why I'm glad my iPhone broke
#92Insightful. I don't think I'm brave enough to try this. I'd feel like I have to constantly jump between computers in case I missed an important email or some relevant news broke. And no maps? I'd never get home...
"I'd feel like I have to constantly jump between computers in case I missed an important email or some relevant news broke."
Sounds like you really need to try this then. Seriously, don't let your "fear of missing out" cripple you.
http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2011/04/14/fomo-addict...
Re: Why I'm glad my iPhone broke
#93Try this - Leave home with nothing and go take a walk around. No bags, no phone, no keys, nothing. Just clothes and maybe $20 in your pocket for emergencies. Leave early and with no commitments later in the day. Eat on the road. Return when you feel like it. Walk at whatever pace you like. Go wherever your legs take you. It's an awesome feeling like nothing else. Helps if you live with someone so they can let you in…
I used to do that with a TravelCard in London in the late 90s. £4 used to get you round the entire city and you can eat well for £4 on top of that. It's probably doubled now. Some out of date Kodak 35mm film (free) and an old Praktica camera (free) and the city was mine. That, clothes and a rain coat and I was happy :) I don't advocate it, but trespassing has certain interesting side as well and is free (if you don't…
This sounds like most of the time I've spent in London when on holiday/vacation recently. Just go there, wander, eat when hungry, wander more... Go back to the hotel after dark and wake up whenever. There are lots of neat things to be seen.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't ignore calls from people as they could be important. Someone may need help, or they may need to notify me of something immediately. This is a good use for interruptive voice calls. However, if someone keeps calling me for very unimportant issues, then I would ignore their calls, and check voice-mail later to confirm if it was important. I expect to get down-voted for this as it is a bit unfortunate, but if pe…
I regularly ignore phone calls, and I tell people - if it's an urgent matter and I don't pick up the phone, call me right back. Two calls in a row means "Pick up, this is important."
For Android there is an fantastic FLOSS app called Harass Me that lets you set an amount of calls in a specific timeframe to make the phone turn up the volume and "harass you" to pick up. I have that setup for emergencies while my phone is silent otherwise.
http://www.rfc1149.net/devel/harassme.html | https://github.com/samueltardieu/harassme
Re: Why I'm glad my iPhone broke
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't ignore calls from people as they could be important. Someone may need help, or they may need to notify me of something immediately. This is a good use for interruptive voice calls. However, if someone keeps calling me for very unimportant issues, then I would ignore their calls, and check voice-mail later to confirm if it was important. I expect to get down-voted for this as it is a bit unfortunate, but if pe…
I regularly ignore phone calls, and I tell people - if it's an urgent matter and I don't pick up the phone, call me right back. Two calls in a row means "Pick up, this is important."
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#96same happened to me. my nexus one broke several months ago and had to use a nokia brick that was lying there but i hate it. I do not call people more often, i use my laptop for communicating with people now. I'm still stuck with that nokia though because i think we live in a time of ugly phones. i was about to get a 4s until they introduced that elongated screen, not to mention the huge screens on the androids. Seems…
>i wish there was a minimalist phone out there that was still cool. Well, you could always get a BlackBerry, you know. Or if you REALLY want minimalism, then buy a refurbished Razr V3 off of eBay. And this quote is a bit puzzling: >i was about to get a 4s until they introduced that elongated screen You can still buy the 4S -- Apple is still selling it.
i don't know, my experience with nexus one is that once a new model comes out, the older one soon becomes unsupported.
I still use snow leopard for instance and i can't get many new features because of that.
So yes i can buy a 4s, but i was hoping for one that won't go unsupported soon. Plus you're right about the blackberry, i am considering one.
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#97I can't believe that any majority of smartphone users' lives are being debilitated by owning a smartphone. Just like there is a large area between not drinking and being a full-blown alcoholic, there is a large area between not owning a smartphone and being addicted to a smartphone. If you cannot control yourself enough to stop constantly taking pictures and posting them to Facebook and you don't like this behavior,…
These were kind of my thoughts. I love having a smartphone and even before they existed I tried to get the dumb ones to do the maximum possible via sms. I really like being able to not worry about finding my way someplace or being able to think "Hmm, I want to go to a museum/eat at 5 guys/walk around a park/swim. Where's the closest one?" and be told. I like being able to check my email or take a picture of something I find amusing. But it's not ruling my life, it's a tiny fraction of it. If people want to know so badly what I'm thinking, eating or doing, well, call or text I guess - I don't have time to document it. I've found very little disturbance to anything, the only possible time I might miss something is if I'm somewhere deathly boring and I choose to ignore it in favor of browsing and even that isn't common.
Re: Why I'm glad my iPhone broke
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
>i wish there was a minimalist phone out there that was still cool. Well, you could always get a BlackBerry, you know. Or if you REALLY want minimalism, then buy a refurbished Razr V3 off of eBay. And this quote is a bit puzzling: >i was about to get a 4s until they introduced that elongated screen You can still buy the 4S -- Apple is still selling it.
i don't know, my experience with nexus one is that once a new model comes out, the older one soon becomes unsupported. I still use snow leopard for instance and i can't get many new features because of that. So yes i can buy a 4s, but i was hoping for one that won't go unsupported soon. Plus you're right about the blackberry, i am considering one.
Apple still supports the iPhone 4, which is older than the iPhone 4s. What do you have against the 4-inch screen on the iPhone 5? It will still fit in your pocket, and it's lighter, thinner, etc.
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> No one reads (books) on buses/trains anymore. They do here (Tokyo area). What's interesting is that a few years ago, far fewer people seemed to be reading; everybody was staring at their phone. Lately (within the last couple of years), however, this seems to be changing, and I see many more people reading actual books [this is helped by the fact that Japanese paperbacks [文庫] are almost perfectly suited for train re…
I see lots of people with paper novels in NYC as well. If I had to guess, I'd say that a third of the readers* on the subway are using paper. *People I can positively identify as reading something, as opposed to playing a game - if they're using something like a Kindle, or if I see them looking at a screen swiping up or down at regular intervals.
... it's almost an art!
http://undergroundnewyorkpubliclibrary.com/
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I'd add to that; try a day/weekend/week without any kind of watch or clock. If I plan on waking at a time, and I KNOW there is no clock to wake me, I nearly always wake on time. Holidays feel awesome when you just do what your body tells you - eat when you are hungry, go places when you feel like it, sleep when you are ready. I spent a few weeks in Thailand like this and I felt amazing - I'd wake naturally (feeling g…
"If I plan on waking at a time, and I KNOW there is no clock to wake me, I nearly always wake on time." This makes no sense. Yes, around the holidays if you don't have to go to work, it's fine to just wake up whenever your body decides to wake up in the morning. But if I consciously think "ok, body, you need to wake up at 7:30 am tomorrow" it's probably not going to happen without an alarm clock.
> it's probably not going to happen without an alarm clock.
Not true. I've always been able to wake up pretty accurately without an alarm clock (not to the minute, but within 30min or so). It's just one of those things some people seem to be able to do, and others can't.
As a result, I've never been particularly dependent on alarm clocks, and use them more as a backup for important events than as my primary method of waking up...