How are you "Dumbifying" your life?

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Bahaha that’s wild! I want to do more of it; gotta balance my stack of review units with covering more of these topics T_T

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I might be going back to carrying this around for a bit.

A grey Nokia flip phone is shown in an open position resting on a desk next to a mechanical keyboard. The phone's screen displays the text, "6:59 PM Red Pocket," "6:59," "PM," "SATURDAY MAR 28," "Notices," and "Camera." The device has a standard black alphanumeric keypad.
A grey Nokia flip phone is shown in an open position resting on a desk next to a mechanical keyboard. The phone's screen displays the text, "6:59 PM Red Pocket," "6:59," "PM," "SATURDAY MAR 28," "Notices," and "Camera." The device has a standard black alphanumeric keypad.570×887 65.4 KB

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I’d be curious to see how that plays out!

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Love a good necro thread. I think that was also the video that introduced me to your channel.

I myself have pretty much went through a process of “dumb phoneing” my iPhone over the past year or so. I don’t really feel the desire to go out and seek a new product to restrict myself when it isn’t the phone that’s the problem, it’s the way I let it rule my life. I purged nearly all apps that I found myself using way too much. Meta’s apps, TikTok, Reddit; any of that stuff that is engineered to eat my time has no place on my phone. I furthermore went through and retuned all my notifications. The only things that should send me a notification is the important stuff, which really boiled down to messages from loved ones and reminders for habits I’m trying to build. Ontop of that, I’ve made it a little more of an inconvenience to use with the eye sight distance feature, I get a pop-up telling me to get the phone away from my face anytime it’s too close/hurting my eyesight which is usually enough to annoy me and get me to put the phone down. Screen time has been down overall so it’s been a rather net positive without feeling like I need to go grab a different device. I’m not quite ready to give up all the benefits smart phones offer with all of the calendar, reminders, notes & ways I can sync that across devices.

I got a HiBy R1 over the holidays as I’ve been seeking to bring back greater intentionalality to my music curation and consumption. I used to spend hours browsing SoundCloud, sitting in Turntable.fm rooms, and flipping through my dad’s CDs in High School, which all would be focused into burning CDs for classmates, or for myself to pop in and out of my car radio. I lost that curiosity with the convenience of streaming, and have missed that part of myself.

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I have felt this about…. So many things I do with technology or online. I’m still trying to figure out if convenience of new things made that less interesting, if I just have less “bored time” as an adult so I don’t seek out that kind of activity, or if it got stale, etc.

I feel like the joy of just exploring any interest online was so much bigger at and I don’t know what changed.