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I just ditched my smartphone entirely. Humanity survived until the 00s without them. You can too.
by lrvick 5y ago
I just ditched my smartphone entirely. Humanity survived until the 00s without them. You can too.
- yayr 5y agomost tools are multi-use. A smart phone is currently the best "convenient world remote control" you can have. It is also the best "distraction toy" you can have... ...self-discipline does not come easy, especially if supply and demand are strongly in favor of distraction...
- farmerstan 5y agoHumanity survived without winter jackets until the Ice Age. Then all of humanity would have gone extinct without them.
- stjohnswarts 5y agoYeah but there is nothing on social media that you actually need to survive.
- tayo42 5y agophones are pretty convenient though. even just having a camera and gps in one small device is nice.
- beebeepka 5y agoFor day to day activities? No, you probably don't need GPS and camera. I gave up my smartphone a decade ago. It's only "inconvenient" when people expect me to have internet in my pocket.
- sushid 5y agoI don't _need_ it but using a smartphone instead of navigating via a physical map and taking photos of memorable events throughout the day sure is nice.
- xxs 5y agoThe car has a map + navigation already, and I care very little about documenting events... although I do use the phone during tear downs for the purpose. Still the prime use of the (my) phone is actual phone calls.
- chrismcb 5y agoThere are a lot of tools on life, that make it more convenient, that aren't required to survive. Like a hammer for example.
- benhurmarcel 5y agoSmartphones aren't only for social media.
- dbalatero 5y agoNot sure that's the same thing.
- mastazi 5y agoSame here. I have an iPhone that I take with me maybe once a week, e.g. if I know I will need to call an Uber. Exploring the option of getting a feature phone but do I really need to carry it? I also tried a Linux phone but it wasn't very good in terms of usability and it soon became unusable due to hardware failure.
- phs318u 5y agoOut of interest, which Linux phone did you try?
- mastazi 5y agoPinePhone Convergence edition, I had an OK experience with Mobian but quite a bad experience with the default distro. The HW failure was largely my fault because I didn't take good care of it. The new PinePhone Pro looks very promising, looks like it can be a daily driver and I would like to try it out as soon as Mobian runs on it. Edit: I'm not clear if Mobian runs on PinePhone Pro already? Looking at this link it seems it does https://blog.mobian.org/posts/2021/12/28/pinephone-pro/ https://blog.mobian.org/posts/2021/12/28/pinephone-pro/ but looking here, it seems we're not quite there yet: https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_Pro_Software_Releases#Mobian https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_Pro_Software_Releases...
- LAC-Tech 5y agoI mean you can doom scroll on a desktop or laptop machine as well.
- sandermvanvliet 5y agoInterestingly I find that while you can doom scroll on a laptop for me it doesn’t “work”. Perhaps because my laptop is work territory (both actual work and hobby) so I automatically don’t doom scroll there or maybe it’s just that lots of content is optimised for mobile and the experience is “better”.
- carlmr 5y agoAlso, I always carry my phone, I don't carry my laptop most of the time. Pulling out your non-work laptop in a boring meeting is also something you don't do.
- LAC-Tech 5y agoI pretty much never use a phone, and all my screen time is a computer. How do you even mindlessly watch youtube vid after youtube vid on such a tiny screen?
- me_me_mu_mu 5y agoI got the new iPhone SE (small screen) in 2020 so I limit my screen time. It has worked but not as well as I'd hoped for.. maybe I need to go back to my razr.
- vanviegen 5y agoAnd yet, here you are... ;-)
- johndevor 5y agohttps://www.thelightphone.com/ https://www.thelightphone.com/