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I got inspired by the Eddy Burback video linked! now my room mate and I are going without a phone for a week, maybe more if we enjoy it! im super excited, there's so many things i'm looking forward to - most of all the internet being a *physical* place as well as a digital one, where I have to come back to my house and use my desktop as a portal into a digital world like our family PC when i was a kid.
anyone else thinking of doing this? what are your thoughts? would love to chat with some new people with all this newfound free time! :D
Apr 7, 2025
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I was inspired by Eddie Burback’s YouTube video and I’ve been only using my phone to call, text, or email for the past week. Not checking it constantly emphasizes that I actually do have free time, and has made me happier. Why do I feel like I’m always the bearer of bad news on here lol!
Apr 12, 2025
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i just spent 2 weeks with fully no phone. phone addiction comes back quick but it was a great experience. recommend making time/planning to do it, or to just do it spontaneously like break your phone, like me.
get a notebook, a pen
get really into packing your bag so you always have things to entertain u
enjoy waking up to the sound of birds
if you dont make time to do it, you will have a phone with you till the day you die, or the collapse of society strips it from you.
May 17, 2024
I’ve converted to a flip phone and it’s honestly so fun lol. I think the way we have access to everything, and everyone, in milliseconds is rotting our brains and making us such an entitled society; entitled to other people’s time and energy on demand, their lives, business, etc. but I also think the way we get sucked in with links from app to app, ads, videos, and doomscrolling, everything is designed to be addictive and it leads (at least for me) to less productivity and more procrastination. I think having to work just a little harder, even to do something as simple as research something, can be good for us.
So what I’ve done is essentially converted my iPhone to a wifi connected iPod touch like from the old days. I’ve left on certain apps like FaceTime, banking apps, Spotify, kindle app, I kept this one to use occasionally and all my saved recipes on my phone of course, etc. but I leave it in my room and just use it in the morning or before bed for reading or checking emails, music for working out, stuff like that, and leave it at home for everything else.
Screen time of course is way down which is nice, it’s also really nice to not feel like I constantly need to be checking something, opening a message on an app, etc. I also have found so far and think it will continue to help me not spend so much money impulsively on things I don’t actually need.
Aside from all of the benefits, I think in general I just find it funny and all of my friends think it’s hilarious lol. I’ll have to figure out what I’ll do for airports, maybe bring the old iPhone with me, connect to airport wifi, scan boarding passes with it. I’ll figure that out when I get there.
Feb 26, 2025
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good night little pocket people
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such a beautiful hazy look... makes life feel like a dream...
and the excitement of seeing photos weeks after you've taken them? incredible
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oh how I yearn for village life in a slightly absurd town in the beautiful valleys and woods of the pacific north-west ..,., and some damn fine coffee
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