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Posted by joshmanders 5 days ago

iPhone dumbphone(stopa.io)
684 points | 393 commentspage 9
browningstreet 5 days ago|
Would this be good to multi-profile an iPhone for crossing borders? A "travel across borders" blueprint, and a "through the border" blueprint?
stopachka 5 days ago|
Oh, that's a cool idea! I think that would work. You would still need to connect to your laptop twice, to switch the profiles. Outside of that it could work great! Would have to think about what would make for a good 'travel across borders' blueprint.
d_theorist 4 days ago||
I just block what I don't want with screen time. My wife sets and knows the passcode. I don't. So I can't override.
BobBagwill 4 days ago||
If smartphones were real computers, instead of expensive little closed portable TV's with cameras, we could run multiple VM's, each with their own network ID's, accounts, apps, etc.

Maybe these sexy AI LLM's can help us root all these closed devices and OS's, instead of being used to write yet another stupid web app faster?

JKCalhoun 5 days ago||
One of my daughters has dumbed down her phone. I was hoping it was a generational thing — the twenty-somethings are saying fuck off to phones.

Me, I barely use my phone. But then I'm stuck a laptop guy/generation.

zoba 5 days ago||
I would love to be able to turn off Instagram Reels on iOS like is apparently possible on Android.
amilios 5 days ago||
Is it possible on Android? How? I would love for this ability to exist
teeeeeegz 5 days ago||
are you only trying to access Insta DM's instead?
codyb 5 days ago||
I call it Phonevorce and I've done pretty well by

- Using AdGuard's pattern matching to block URLs I found distracting (news sites, youtuble)

- Deleted all apps I spend too much time on (basically down to Discord where I have two or three communities I check in on)

- Leaving my phones in the other room all day

- Turning all notifications off except for a very small select few whose (calls only) go through

- Deleting all social media (still have HackerNews (computer only), Discord)

It's great! Love it. Fuck your phone. I use mine to check bank accounts, do Spanish flash cards, and occasionally to look at housing and life is calmer and nicer and I get more done.

Fokamul 4 days ago||
Too bad iPhone is a dumbphone fromt the get go :D
throwaway290 5 days ago||
> blocks social media because too addictive

> allows llms

RandallBrown 5 days ago||
I wonder what the author is doing with those 2 extra hours of time he's not using his phone.

I use my phone a lot, but I never feel like it's taking away from me doing anything else.

stopachka 5 days ago||
> 2 extra hours of time he's not using his phone.

Mostly reading. The 2 hours was a win for me, but the thing I appreciated even more was the that I feel less distracted throughout the day.

I remember reading about Ozempic, and how it "turns off the background food noise" that people have. I didn't realize this, but for me I have a "background notifications noise", which this hack has helped reduce.

balder1991 5 days ago||
I don’t doubt it. Sometimes when I feel overwhelmed with these addicting apps, I delete some temporarily and just the fact I don’t have them in my phone anymore feels like some part of my mind that was being dragged down is finally freed.
moduspol 5 days ago|||
I just made a similar transition a few weeks ago.

I just often felt like I wasn't making progress on various things I've been wanting to, that I used to do, and for which I kept telling myself I don't have time. And it wasn't difficult to tell where my time was going based on the Screen Time app.

For me, I've drawn the line at endless feeds, which for me, was Reddit and Facebook. And for the first week or two, I was often catching myself in a split-second of boredom just opening up one or the other (just to be greeted by an error message). Now that instinct is gone.

I don't think I was as bad as the people endlessly doom-scrolling through TikTok, but it was certainly bad enough that I felt like I didn't have enough free time to work toward life goals that were outside my work time. And it's a lot better now.

al_borland 5 days ago||
Going back to reading magazines and shampoo bottles in the bathroom?
skarz 4 days ago|
OP is using LastPass still, oof...
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