9:00pm: brush my teeth and log it because I'm trying to make a habit of doing so every day (Loop Habit Tracker).
― 龜, Friday, 6 May 2016 18:30 (eight years ago) link
9:30pm: open random apps over and over thinking "I could be reading my Kindle right now".
― 龜, Friday, 6 May 2016 18:32 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/O2jIop1.png
― 龜, Friday, 6 May 2016 18:33 (eight years ago) link
i'm crying
I hate this fucking thing
― Treeship, Wednesday, 15 June 2016 18:28 (eight years ago) link
today i saw a guy, crossing a busy intersection w smartphone in one hand, head staring down reading the phone, the other hand cupped over it to shadow it from the sun all while ON A SKATEBOARD
― johnny crunch, Monday, 20 June 2016 20:35 (eight years ago) link
i've seen the same except he was 'walking' his dog too
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 June 2016 21:01 (eight years ago) link
Found out i can trade in my nefarious iphone for a flip phone for $1. Told the dude I'd think it over but my plan now is to go back there and pull the trigger. It won't fix everything but I think it eill be a step in the right direction.
― Treeship, Monday, 27 June 2016 22:40 (seven years ago) link
If I back out someone please beat me up or email me a computer virus.
― Treeship, Monday, 27 June 2016 22:42 (seven years ago) link
Is this iPhone at all recent? I mean, even a couple generations old one will get you a few dollars, and most flip phones are either given away or insanely cheap
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 27 June 2016 22:54 (seven years ago) link
It's a 5 but i think the earpiece is messed up. Everyone sounds muffled.
― Treeship, Monday, 27 June 2016 23:03 (seven years ago) link
the deal the dude offered for the flip phone -- $1 -- seemed pretty good. He said "one person every three days" comes in to that midtown Verizon store and asks to downgrade, citing distraction. This seemed oddly specific.
― Treeship, Monday, 27 June 2016 23:05 (seven years ago) link
Youll find something else.
Keep yr awesome technology and learn boundaries
Typing this in bed btw
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Monday, 27 June 2016 23:07 (seven years ago) link
Nooo technology is awful... Or at least it is evolving faster than I am able to keep up with
― Treeship, Monday, 27 June 2016 23:12 (seven years ago) link
have you considered working in a retirement home
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 27 June 2016 23:19 (seven years ago) link
please do this and report to us on how it goes!
― ryan, Monday, 27 June 2016 23:19 (seven years ago) link
I thought about downgrading not long ago. I remember back in 2009-2011 or so I ilx'd quite successfully from a slider phone. So I stepped into a Verizon store and checked out their selection of low-tech phones and I decided the technology really didn't work for me anymore. The keyboards were so annoying for me! I was a little bummed, because I thought it would be a good step toward solving my problems. Anyway, I removed some of the worse time-sucking apps like facebook and twitter. I've also been bringing paper books with me on my commute and getting sucked into them instead of my phone.
If you do this and pull it off though, let me know!
― how's life, Monday, 27 June 2016 23:23 (seven years ago) link
I recommend the Nokia 100 - costs around 10 euros and works very well, good menus, battery +1 week
― niels, Monday, 27 June 2016 23:34 (seven years ago) link
my friend thought he was getting too addicted to his phone so he got a flip phonenow he texts himself all the things he wants to look up, and it's kind of sad, I wish he could just look them upand he can't date really because he doesn't get emojis in textsevery time I am hanging out with him he gets a text and says "I don't know what she means, it's just two boxes"
― the lava-staring club (Abbott), Monday, 27 June 2016 23:39 (seven years ago) link
also everyone gives him shit all the time about being a drug dealer or a terrorist especially me
― the lava-staring club (Abbott), Monday, 27 June 2016 23:40 (seven years ago) link
haha I do get a lot of boxes
― niels, Monday, 27 June 2016 23:40 (seven years ago) link
if you get a flip phone you will be mad every time you see something cute or incongruous or funny and you can't take a picture of iti am pretty inconsistent about bringing my phone out with me and i experience this a lotthere are just too many cute things and weird things not to photograph
― the lava-staring club (Abbott), Monday, 27 June 2016 23:43 (seven years ago) link
also how the fuck are you gonna get directions??
― the lava-staring club (Abbott), Monday, 27 June 2016 23:44 (seven years ago) link
i held out on not getting a smartphone, did not get one until 2012 and i would never go back, everyou can translate languages with them! text to speech! it is like the greatest classroom tool for working with ell/exed kids
― the lava-staring club (Abbott), Monday, 27 June 2016 23:45 (seven years ago) link
AND in my experience NOT just with phones if you are really addicted to something you will find a way to still do it...even if you have to take the hard way...
― the lava-staring club (Abbott), Monday, 27 June 2016 23:47 (seven years ago) link
I mean, Treeship drafts his ilx posts in a little notebook so this isn't much of a change
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 27 June 2016 23:52 (seven years ago) link
flip phones (can) have cameras, if not very good ones
― mookieproof, Monday, 27 June 2016 23:52 (seven years ago) link
smartphones are worth it for the ease of texting alone imo, fuck texting on a flip phone that shit was horrible
― marcos, Monday, 27 June 2016 23:55 (seven years ago) link
i am totally distracted by my phone and i spend way too much time on it but i 100% feel that my life is easier now that i have one
― marcos, Monday, 27 June 2016 23:56 (seven years ago) link
especially if you are in an unfamiliar place!!!!
― the lava-staring club (Abbott), Monday, 27 June 2016 23:57 (seven years ago) link
Is any place really unfamiliar with gps-enabled maps
If you want to get lost, put it in your pocket
If you just want to get notified when someone wants to contact you, you can get a little watch or something that notifies you when something important comes through and keep your actual phone in your bag, pocket, or next room
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 00:03 (seven years ago) link
getting lost pretty much sucks imo
― the lava-staring club (Abbott), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 00:11 (seven years ago) link
happens when you take a literal approach to détournement when you didn't finish reading the literature
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 00:20 (seven years ago) link
every time I am hanging out with him he gets a text and says "I don't know what she means, it's just two boxes"
i get this all the time on facebook now bc my computer is old : /
― j., Tuesday, 28 June 2016 00:38 (seven years ago) link
Korea does not support granular phone mapping for walking or driving directions, apparently on purpose? You can get decent public transit directions but trying to coordinate directions on foot in Seoul is a scavenger hunt + orienteering challenge. Fun though
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 00:56 (seven years ago) link
Anybody else checked out "Pinpoint" by Greg Milner? I loved the "Death by GPS" excerpt I read somewhere, and his previous book on recording technology was really good too imo
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 00:58 (seven years ago) link
and he can't date really because he doesn't get emojis in texts
rip
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 01:55 (seven years ago) link
thus was ended the house of flip phone
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 02:12 (seven years ago) link
I switched back and forth between regular, non-internet capable phone and smartphones. But the past couple years I've been using a crappy flip phone. I love the internet (and technology in general), but I'd rather use that $50 data plan somewhere else in my life. There are specific moments in my life where I miss having a smartphone. But those moments add up to like an hour or so a week.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 02:15 (seven years ago) link
My thought process usually goes like this:
If only there were a limited feature smartphone that just had like texting and email...and uh, directions. Definitely would want the directions. And a really good camera, snaps of the kids, priceless. But no facebook. Oh except then how would I share the pics of the kids with family. But no browser. Except maybe a limited one that could look up the answers to questions. And some sort of restaurant finder app. Would need a way to hail Ubers once in a while....
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 02:16 (seven years ago) link
Actually one of the surprising things about smartphones though, I think, is how few different apps I really use on a regular basis. It's almost like when I go over some certain number (maybe 10?) I just forget they're there or have a purpose.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 02:17 (seven years ago) link
even if I gave up a personal smartphone my office has started issuing the iphone 6 as standard gear, so y'know
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 02:23 (seven years ago) link
My thinking is, I never asked for all that stuff. I never wanted a computer in my pocket before it existed. In fact, in the pre-smartphone days I still desperately wished I used the Internet less. So I feel like I was dragged into this era against my will.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 02:36 (seven years ago) link
I understand how you feel. People who say it's all up to your choice underestimate the ways norms limit the parameters of our choices. Report back on how it goes. Sometimes the internet is my alcohol, so I guess a smartphone is like a pocket flask.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 02:40 (seven years ago) link
fucking hate that i can't permanently remove all this android shit. cant even move it to the sd card, so my phone's always running out of space and periodically i learn i've been signed into some fucking chat service against my will
yes i've tried rooting it etc
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 02:45 (seven years ago) link
Can't choose the era you were born into, just have to accept it and be glad you don't have polio
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 03:43 (seven years ago) link
So true
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 03:45 (seven years ago) link
You can choose everything. I am the curator of my life.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 04:01 (seven years ago) link
new on ios10
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204221
remove builtin apps
time to upgrade
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link
"The apps built into iOS are designed to be very space efficient, so all of them together use less than 150MB. "
lol this is part of why companies are so deranged about letting you remove them -- they're thin wrappers on top of system frameworks that everything uses so it makes no sense to them that you'd want to "remove" "notes"
like yeah buddy let me wipe that lil' icon right off there
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 17:47 (seven years ago) link