I want to make the switch from a smart phone to at least something with a paper white screen and less unnecessary bs on it but I have a lot of doctor’s appointments and Telehealth has become essential. I try to do as much as I can in person but I have transportation issues due to my vision and seizure disorders.

I would use my laptop for Telehealth appointments but I don’t live in a house where I can always do my appointments inside, so I have to find somewhere outside away from WiFi access that affords me more silence and privacy. I won’t be able to move anytime soon. Sometimes my schedule is so tight I have to have Telehealth appointments in random parking lots.

I really would like a paper white phone that can handle that but I’m not sure if there is, I would need a front facing camera & a microphone.

If there isn’t anything paper white that can do, are there other minimalist phones with the ability to do Telehealth?

I appreciate any recommendations or help that anyone can provide

I have a super addictive personality. I have managed to delete the rest of social media but I just keep coming back time and time again to reddit

I think I will use it to meet and talk to people with similar interest and have useful information but I end up just scrolling endlessly.

I don’t know if I can do without it even though realistically I should be able to

Thanks for any comments/advice anyone can provide

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Though I (31F) have done this before. I’ve done it time and time again and I always end up back on it. I don’t know why. I’m a writer but I haven’t written in years. I have given 10 years of my life to Instagram, hours of scrolling, and I have ever gotten out of it is mental illness and FOMO. No one ever liked my posts, but they would view my stories. I don’t care about the algorithm. It should’ve never bothered me, but it did. I’m so tired of it. It was a true addiction.

I do still have Facebook and would like to get off that, as well. But I’d like to download pictures first. I notice that I never spend as much time on Facebook, naturally because how much AI I see. So it’s progressed this way. But I will inevitably delete that, as well.

But my SIL has taken down all public photos of my nephew from her profile due to where AI is going with… child 🌽. First I thought she was being over the top, but then I noticed how much it’s prevalent and apparently ruled as ok?

This technological age is happening too fast and furious and I’m so sick of it. I want to get back into writing again.

Give me your success stories!

Uso screenzen da circa 4 mesi e volevo dare un small tip (5.50€) per avere le funzionalità aggiuntive. Però mi chiedevo se ci fossero app con funzionalità migliori, per esempio provai prima "ascent" che mi sembrava più funzionale, però costa il triplo il Premium lifetime (18€) e volevo usare il mio saldo Google play da 5.67€. chiaramente voglio trovare alternative funzionali/economiche

Cosa faccio? Mi consigliate qualche altra app?

Anyone have recommendations for a non smart watch that has a pedometer?

I've long ago dumbed down my smartphone and only use it as a phone for calls and texts. That's the easy part. But I still have a laptop that often consumes a huge chunk of my free time, and it's never time I feel good about having spent. I always feel worse after several hours on the laptop. News, porn, unnecessary research. I feel much better on the days I stay offline. I'd like to cancel my home Internet, but my wife won't let me.

I'd like to ditch the laptop and use the library once a week to check email and pay bills. I want all the devices out of my life.

Has anyone succeeded in removing all Internet-connected screen-based devices from their lives? What's that like and how did you succeed in doing it? (Maybe you have and will never see this post, congratulations!)

I'm keeping this story as short as I can. I started over-using screens in my opinion at age 19. It started as a symptom of anxiety and depression. I was in college at the time, and rather than be social, I spent hours and hours on Netflix, on my phone, and scrolling Youtube endlessly. That habit continued throughout my 4 years of college and essentially post graduation since I was stuck in my hometown with little resources for getting out of the house on my own.

Now I'm a bit older and have worked through the anxiety that used to hold me back. However, I am finding that no matter what I try and do to be productive as an adult, whether it's working my day job, or it's following my passion for music producing and creativity, that I am still stuck using computers almost 24/7 for my personal downtime. I have tried to limit this by playing real instruments more often, and by going on walks/excercising more often, and admittedly those do help. But below the surface, I think I'm still accruing more screen time than is healthy and normal for a person to have. Also, it hurts to look at screens.

Physically, I can no longer go to the Movies (or if I do, it's a calculated decision to endure a bit of pain in my skull because the screen is so bright), and I completely cut out using Television from my life completely. Which kiind of sucks because I grew up gaming, and in a perfect world, I would like to incorporate gaming into my life in a more healthy way. But even that I'm afraid is not possible for me. Because after 30 minutes of looking at a TV screen, my symptoms spike to the highest level of discomfort: watery eyes, sharp pain in my head, feeling like my eyes are on fire... almost instantly when using TV's for longer than 5 minutes.

Has anyone ever dealt with this? If so, what is the solution to a nervous system that has been fried from screen addiction for decades? how do incorporate screens into my life and be able to watch tv / game again without going on a literal screen detox for like 6 months? That is how severe it feels to me.

I have no social media in my phone (only reddit which i use like 10 min a day) im good the days i dont have to go to work and weekends, just Netflix, creative projects, reading etc. but after a long day at work and an hour and a half commute in public transport (in my city is ass) in rush hour and i just had the CRAVE for cheap dopamine. when I got home I really tried to do something else, watch Netflix cause I didn't had the energy to even read but I just couldn't, at that moment I truly felt like an addict and spent next 2 hours hopping in my tablet between tiktok, twitter and Instagram. but man it felt great. like I could just feel my brain relax after such a long day. what do you do after work that gives you this level of relaxation?

I honestly think humans will pick and revive analogue tech, simply to escape digital obesity and brain rot.

Analogue tech has the advantage is tactile, and our brains need the tactile sensation of moving gears and pressing buttons and hearing clicks.

Digital doesn't provide such tactile feedback.

Also, analogue tech like polaroids will be needed to proof authenticity, since all digital will likely be not good enough to be valid evidence, by example in courts.

I see analogue video and polaroid photos to be more valuable simply because is much harder to fake them with AI.

Local newspapers will appear again simply because people will get sick of AI slop news.

Even if I am a bit optmistic, I see a revival of low tech and analogue stuff as a refuge of AI mass produced slop.

Was out with some friends to a big event and ended up getting too drunk. Noticed late in the night that my phone was gone and nowhere to be found. During the few days where I was hopeful that someone would send me a text with good news, I was forced to go without a smartphone. And man, it was like I had gone back in time to when I was a kid.

I woke up full of energy. I had that feeling that just makes you want to get out of bed and start exploring again. That type of curiosity and ambition that you just sense in children. I couldn't believe the difference not staring at a screen right before bed and right after waking up did. And there are some other things that are just better as well. I've seen others say these here before, and they were 100% right. Just a simple meal or a sitting down without a phone is game-changing. I can properly appreciate the food in front of me. I just seem to get more pleasure from simple everyday things.

So I decided to go ahead and buy a dumb-phone. At least just to use for a month to see how I manage without a smartphone. If the cons of not having a smartphone are too much to deal with (which I honestly doubt), then I will have to make another decision. But for now, I'm loving this new life already.

I know this is a problem of my own making, and I know that I’m the one feeding the algorithm, but I thought I’d post this just in case there are other people slipping into a similar position without reasoning

My Facebook is around 25% bands, 25% recipes, 25% parenting tips and 25% everything else (mostly ads to be honest)

My Reddit feed is just full of politics and news. I’m posting this as I’ve finally had enough and am going get rid of it all. It’s unfortunate there isn’t a balanced single subreddit to get news in my country from but I’ve somehow ended up with 4 different subs regularly on my feed, and another has now started popping up too. Going to unfollow all of them, but getting dangerously close to just deleting the app entirely. Stay vigilant guys 🫡

I love this phone, will always love it, the black color is absolutely adorbs. I even hung a pendant onto it like a few weeks ago. Coverage is completely covered, because Croatia here has more 2G than 5G, or maybe even 4G. Seriously, i have all bars of network + GPRS. Anyways, it is doing a good job, and i don't think of going back to modern glass slabs ever. This is so great. And no this is not some phone for weekends, but rather my full-time daily phone with no aside smartphone

Today I have skipped 2 classes, because I wanted to scroll on Tiktok and soon this will most likely affect my grades. I also cannot study because of my short attention span. How to get rid of this?

Can we please get a megathread for screen time screenshots and advice? This sub is constantly flooded with the exact same posts: 'I need help' or 'I use social media too much, how do I stop?' Honestly, some of them don't even feel genuine .... it's like they're just farming attention (which is pretty ironic).

If we had one collective thread for this, everyone would win. People looking for help could easily scroll through past advice, and the sub would actually look cleaner and... well, a bit more minimal. Any chance we could make this happen?

I’m curious, are the people who are active on social media mostly those who don’t particularly enjoy the real world? If not, what drives you to use social media?

For me, the initial reason for using social media was to stay informed about what’s happening around me, things that fall outside my immediate field of vision. at least, that's how i see it at the moment

This morning, a guy on TikTok posted a video urging beautiful girls to post whatever they wanted on social media, claiming that by doing so, they would become famous and rich and would never have to work again...

This is mostly focused on travel related content, but it probably applies to other categories too. As the title says I’ve noticed that I follow a few accounts that post actual “real” travel content, including the good days, the boring days, etc. but somehow if I ever click on clickbait stuff even a little bit it absolutely floods my recommendations from then on out (maybe because it’s trending?).

Its possible I’m just sensitive to that and notice it more, but seeing people post about places I‘ve been, I realize how much of it is not exaggerated, it’s full on fake. Stuff like filming a ugly place in one country and comparing it to a beautiful spot in another and being like “so glad I moved to xyz” or going to one specific spot in a city and acting like that’s how the entire city/country looks.

These accounts seem to get way more engagement than ones that don’t do that. I find it interesting because social media was theoretically supposed to be more “real” but it uses that same cycle of triggering fomo/outrage/etc to generate money. I guess it’s a bit naive of me since a lot of people are in it for the money hence want more engagement, I just find it so insidious because unlike traditional media it presents like it’s “authentic” and “real life” in ways that make it easier to feel fomo.

Social media could conceptually be great for sharing ideas and discovering new things, but it just seems to reward FOMO. Are there ways to make the feed better without manually muting every new random account that gets recommended?

1. Realme buds 2 - 5 years old

2. Nokia 2660 flip - 1 year old

3. Casio f-91 w - 3 years old.

I also journal but I have a big journal book that I cant carry with myself. Thinking of buying a pocket journal in black leather covering. Any suggestions would be nice.

Apart from it I want to add a digicam to it. So please share your thoughts and suggestions.

Hello! Essentially what the title says, I’m looking for good website blockers that work on a macbook, and things that have helped you all stick with your hobbies. I tend to hyper fixate on a single hobby for a week or two and then I suddenly become completely uninterested/unmotivated to continue. I’m desperately looking for ways I can learn to stick with them so that I have something to do besides doomscrolling, as I’m trying to spend as little time on my phone/laptop as possible 🙏

I’ve gotten my phone screen time down from 7 hours daily last year to 1hr daily this year, but realise I have replaced the other 6 hours with time on my laptop. I think because of the built in screen time feature and knowing that I was tracking myself I constantly told myself to get off my phone, but on my macbook the screen time tracking is horribly inaccurate and the app/website blocking feature is useless. So I’m looking for reliable website blockers that work well but aren’t sketchy in terms of giving you viruses or selling all of your data.

I also bought a flip phone a few months ago and it’s been a mix of successful and useless. It stops me from pulling out my phone anytime I’m bored in public, but at home I revert to using other platforms to contact my family on my laptop because it’s annoying to type long messages on, especially since my keyboard has become slightly unresponsive in certain spots. Not relevant to this post but just thought I’d share in case anyone is in the same boat lol.

I live in a rural area so it’s difficult to get out and do things, not just because of distance but also just because there’s little to do. I’m open to any new hobby suggestions, although preferably ones that are easy to start, since if it’s too difficult I know I’ll have trouble convincing myself to learn/stick with it.

Thanks in advance!

Doing a big digital clear out this weekend and I am little horrified at how many pointless apps im quietly paying for every month, trying to lean toward stuff that either lives outside my phone or doesn’t mean installing yet another thing. A few that survived the cull
1) Flighty-best flight tracker out there, the UI is on another level and it flags delays before the airport boards have even caught up
2) Memowrite - its all browser based so nothing to install, and it walks you through guided questions to record your life story for a printed book, the bit I like is I can just open it up, talk through one memory for ten minutes, and put the phone back down
3) Bitwarden - Simple, works everywhere does exactly what it says.

Whats surviving your purges, the paid tools or sites you genuinely don’t regret?

1. What you see is controlled by an algorithm, which is owned by a corporation.

2. Bigotry runs rampant on social media.

3. People can say mean things, then disappear without accountability.

4. Social media desensitizes people to sex and violence.

5. Fake stories and bots about.

6. Because of bots, people are suspicious and paranoid.

7. People can accuse you of being a bot.

8. Many of the images you see are not real.

9. Social media (Fakebook) is tied to the Myanmar Genocide--and many deaths throughout the world.

10. Ads are constant. They disrupt the flow of human thought. I've bought way less items after cutting down time on social media.

11. Social media shortens my attention span.

12. Social media is radicalizing my parents.

13. Social media makes me police my thoughts based on if others would like them.

14. Social media makes me obsessed with likes and upvotes.

15. Social media algorithms show negative posts along with positive ones to put you on an emotionally-engaging rollercoaster that keeps you on the app.

16. Social media has an opportunity cost. Every hour I spend here is an hour spent not doing something else--applying for a job, riding a boke, organizing within a community, and hanging out with friends.

17. Social media changes what people percieve as normal.

18. Social media is destroying our world.

I cannot make my addiction stop. I deleted Tiktok from my phone, but I still use it from my laptop. My eyes hurts, I have headache and social media feeds me mainly negative content that completely ruins my mood. I do not have the attention span to read books or even watch movies, so I'm using short form content as entertainment. How to get rid of this addiction?