I did it for a few months and really enjoyed it. At the end of 3 months, I realized I could achieve nearly the same thing by turning off all notifications except messages and calls and uninstalling all social media. I realized… if I have the willpower to use a dumbphone I have the willpower to keep the distraction off my smartphone. Phone usage is now 100% intentional with the right setup.
I did it for 3 months. I really enjoyed my time doing it and learned a lot about my usage. It was a cheap $50 experiment. After I went back to my smartphone, I uninstalled ALL social media apps. Turned off ALL notifications but left calls and messages as an exception. My smartphone is now essentially a feature phone. It’s not 100% the same since the big screen does lure you in to use it but my usage is still way down and because I don’t have any social media there’s no reason for me to be on my phone around other people. I wholeheartedly recommend trying it for those curious.
Just the type of mod I want!
Dad programming jokes are the finest there is.
It’s so nice to feel like tech isn’t running your life anymore. If I’m in an app doing something, it’s because I made the choice to do it. I still gotta work on that doom scrolling tho, YouTube being the biggest culprit. I think I might try setting some time limits.
Everyone should try disabling ALL notifications and then working their way up to understand which alerts are worth getting interrupted for. Everything you do on your phone ends up becoming more intentional and your battery life goes up too because your screen isn’t constantly getting turned on from the barrage of notifications. To date, I only have 1 notification turned on and it’s when my significant other messages me.
I think it’s done like that on purpose so that their Canes sauce does a lot of the heavy lifting.
There’s this fast food fried chicken chain called Raising Canes, used to serve massive strips. Now the price is 50% more expensive and 50% less chicken. They’re extremely tiny, never going back again… yet all the zombies who love that place are relentlessly spending their money there anyway.
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There’s one called the Light phone and the battery life is below average. The screen is definitely a hog but cell radios can just as easily chew through the battery.
Can this work with the “off the shelf” mesh routers.
Akira x Barbie, very cool.
Please tell me ya’ll actually talk to your ducks? Just me? Alright…
Yeah but can it host PiHole?
We have so much computing power at home and the chances you have good reliable Internet at home are better than before. I revived 5 year old PCs and it’s way too much computing power for my self host needs. I’d have to pay $200+ a month for the same compute power in the cloud. Even a Raspberry Pi with 8GB is capable of running quite a bit for fractions of a penny in electricity.
This one really surprised me. I love that it was made right before hollow Knight came out so it feels refreshing in that sense before everyone started copying the formula. This game also got me into SHMUPS, it takes a little getting used to the weird hitbox but once it clicks, it clicks! It’s super satisfying finding all the power ups scattered all over the map.
There’s so many services where I’m like, wow what am I even paying for? Email is one where I know exactly what I’m paying for.
I hope they make another, I loved every moment. I really like that it doesn’t overstay it’s welcome and think more MVs should have a similar game time length to balance out all the large MVs like Hollow Knight.
Sync is $20 to remove ads no? Where is it $100?
Update: nevermind I see it here for sync ultra
I’m glad you enjoyed it. I end up going back every now and then and doing just that.
I have a love hate relationship with this man. He has spearheaded some of my favorite games even if they came nowhere close to what was promised. It’s so weird to come back to Fable and enjoy it more than I did when it came out.