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  • Crap - this is not compact. WE WANT SMALL PHONES!

    If it was this size but thinner I wouldnt even mind. Although slightly longer and skinnier would be better.

    Over $400 is a ridiculous price point though and makes the whole thing a non-starter. I get that its a minimalist product and inherently not going to be the most popular thing, therefore priced accordingly, but its OS barely looks better than a mid 2000s palm pilot

  • Recently, I watched a YouTube video about phones designed to minimize distractions. While they aim to solve the problem of smartphone overuse, their utility in today's world is questionable. Essential tasks like using banking apps, navigation, communication, and parking apps often require a smartphone, making these distraction-free phones less practical.

    The video mentioned some "smart" distraction-free phones, but if you need those features, why not just adjust the settings on your regular smartphone to achieve a similar minimalist setup? Ultimately, traditional dumb phones seem too limited for modern needs, while the smarter minimalist phones are essentially just smartphones with minimalist settings. It's hard to see who the target audience for these phones really is.

    Yeah I really like the idea of an E-ink screen for my phone, both for sparing my eyes and my battery. But the way they cripple these phones make them a no-go.

    That's coming from someone who is typically very mindful of keeping myself undistracted - I have the alarm clock from the same company just so I can leave the phone in the kitchen when I go to bed.

  • A 4" e-ink phone that I hadn't heard of before. Seems like a promising low-distraction semidumb phone.

    Unfortunately, it seems to be based on Android 12 (eol) with no upgrades in sight.

    Here's an idea for a "distraction free" phone:

    Any android phone.

    In a work profile use a primary launcher app that only shows 3 or 4 important apps. Disable everything else.

    Lock all the rest in the normal profile with a password that is a randomized 32 or longer character string that you can't possibly memorize.

    Write it down in glaze on a plate, which you smash and store in a bag with some super glue.

  • A 4" e-ink phone that I hadn't heard of before. Seems like a promising low-distraction semidumb phone.

    Unfortunately, it seems to be based on Android 12 (eol) with no upgrades in sight.

    Just uninstall all social media apps

  • Recently, I watched a YouTube video about phones designed to minimize distractions. While they aim to solve the problem of smartphone overuse, their utility in today's world is questionable. Essential tasks like using banking apps, navigation, communication, and parking apps often require a smartphone, making these distraction-free phones less practical.

    The video mentioned some "smart" distraction-free phones, but if you need those features, why not just adjust the settings on your regular smartphone to achieve a similar minimalist setup? Ultimately, traditional dumb phones seem too limited for modern needs, while the smarter minimalist phones are essentially just smartphones with minimalist settings. It's hard to see who the target audience for these phones really is.

    honestly the target audience is young 20 somethings. older folks like me grew up having to use different methods to keep stuff together. address book/cassette player/CD player/date book.

    but then the smart phone happened and suddenly even mp3 players were obsolete. so us older folks embraced the functionality of a device we once needed an entire bags worth of stuff to replicate from our youth. I've never looked back from the smartphone because I remember actually carrying all that stuff.

    these younger people were born when tech was getting to that point. and their formative years were spent with smart devices. so their brains seem wired to want to break "free" from it.

    or at least thats just my theory. the 'iPad kid' generation is starting to be adults and they've not had the distance between smart devices that the older generations have.

    again, just my take on it.

  • honestly the target audience is young 20 somethings. older folks like me grew up having to use different methods to keep stuff together. address book/cassette player/CD player/date book.

    but then the smart phone happened and suddenly even mp3 players were obsolete. so us older folks embraced the functionality of a device we once needed an entire bags worth of stuff to replicate from our youth. I've never looked back from the smartphone because I remember actually carrying all that stuff.

    these younger people were born when tech was getting to that point. and their formative years were spent with smart devices. so their brains seem wired to want to break "free" from it.

    or at least thats just my theory. the 'iPad kid' generation is starting to be adults and they've not had the distance between smart devices that the older generations have.

    again, just my take on it.

    Yeah, that is a pretty good point. The attitude towards various electronics is entirely different. Probably really healthy too. If you stop having the ability to check doom and gloom news and anger inducing online debates every 3 minutes, it’s probably going to do wonders to your mental health.

  • Here's an idea for a "distraction free" phone:

    Any android phone.

    In a work profile use a primary launcher app that only shows 3 or 4 important apps. Disable everything else.

    Lock all the rest in the normal profile with a password that is a randomized 32 or longer character string that you can't possibly memorize.

    Write it down in glaze on a plate, which you smash and store in a bag with some super glue.

    Me, staring at password puzzle: ...i'll just hotspot my laptop this one time...

    Narrator: It wasn't one time.

  • A 4" e-ink phone that I hadn't heard of before. Seems like a promising low-distraction semidumb phone.

    Unfortunately, it seems to be based on Android 12 (eol) with no upgrades in sight.

    440 dollars for a bad smartphone and the homepage of this site is some guy sitting in a yoga pose to make the company seem more 🙏zen🙏.

    people need to start exercising personal discipline rather than spending 440 bucks for a device with less features when you could just uninstall the crap you're tired of

    you can "dumb" down a smart phone literally at will. at any time. or just put the thing down more often.

    that won't cost you 440 dollars so some random guy can buy expensive yoga mats to pose on, and you'll be better off for teaching yourself better smartphone use habits.

  • 440 dollars for a bad smartphone and the homepage of this site is some guy sitting in a yoga pose to make the company seem more 🙏zen🙏.

    people need to start exercising personal discipline rather than spending 440 bucks for a device with less features when you could just uninstall the crap you're tired of

    you can "dumb" down a smart phone literally at will. at any time. or just put the thing down more often.

    that won't cost you 440 dollars so some random guy can buy expensive yoga mats to pose on, and you'll be better off for teaching yourself better smartphone use habits.

    I guess you never experienced addiction. Some people aren’t capable of that sadly. Especially Gen Z and Alpha.

  • A 4" e-ink phone that I hadn't heard of before. Seems like a promising low-distraction semidumb phone.

    Unfortunately, it seems to be based on Android 12 (eol) with no upgrades in sight.

    MUDITA KOMPACT!

  • I guess you never experienced addiction. Some people aren’t capable of that sadly. Especially Gen Z and Alpha.

    addiction isnt something to pay 440 for. addiction is something to work on yourself or with someone who specializes in mental health.

    i have experienced addiction. smart phone addiction is a mild one and its completely breakable by changing one's own habits.

    people are capable of it. they're just lazy. shelling out 440 bucks for a gimmick that makes them feel like they're helping themselves doesn't seem like a healthy thing to do for one's addiction.

  • 440 dollars for a bad smartphone and the homepage of this site is some guy sitting in a yoga pose to make the company seem more 🙏zen🙏.

    people need to start exercising personal discipline rather than spending 440 bucks for a device with less features when you could just uninstall the crap you're tired of

    you can "dumb" down a smart phone literally at will. at any time. or just put the thing down more often.

    that won't cost you 440 dollars so some random guy can buy expensive yoga mats to pose on, and you'll be better off for teaching yourself better smartphone use habits.

    True that, just leave the phone and messaging capabilities and you're done.

  • I guess you never experienced addiction. Some people aren’t capable of that sadly. Especially Gen Z and Alpha.

    There you go then. It's 80 €.

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    Don’t assume evil when stupidity I didn't, though? I think that perhaps you missed the "I don’t think necessarily that people who perpetuate this problem are doing so out of malice" part. Scream racism all you want but you’re cheapening the meaning of the word and you’re not doing anyone a favor. I didn't invent this term. Darker patches on darker skin are harder to detect, just as facial features in the dark, on dark skin are garder to detect because there is literally less light to work with Computers don't see things the way we do. That's why steganography can be imperceptible to the human eye, and why adversarial examples work when the differences cannot be seen by humans. If a model is struggling at doing its job it's because the data is bad, be it the input data, or the training data. Historically one significant contributor has been that the datasets aren't particularly diverse, and white men end up as the default. It's why all the "AI" companies popped in "ethnically ambiguous" and other words into their prompts to coax their image generators into generating people that weren't white, and subsequently why these image generators gave us ethnically ambigaus memes and German nazi soldiers that were black.
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    This concept is the enemy of the a centuries old idealistic societal pillar of the West: Liberté, Libertas... this has blessed so many of us in the West, and I beg that it doesn't leave. Something beautiful and as sacred as the freedom from forced labor and the freedom to choose your trade, is the concept of the free and unbounded innocence of voices asking their leaders and each other these questions, to determine amongst ourselves what is fair and not, for our own betterment and the beauty of free enterprise. It's not so much that the Chinese state is an awful power to behold (it is and fuck Poohhead)... but this same politic is on the rise in the West and it leads to war. It always leads to war. And now the most automated form of state and corporate propaganda the world has ever seen is in the hands of a ruthless ruling class that can, has, and will steal bread from children's hands, and literally take the medicine from the sick to pad their pockets. Such is the twisted fate of society and likely always will be. We need to fight and not with prayers; this moment is God forsaking us to behold how the spirit breaks and what the people want to fight for as ruthlessly as the others do to steal our bread.
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    Swappa is good for tech.
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    I think it would be best if that's a user setting, like dark mode. It would obviously be a popular setting to adjust. If they don't do that, there will doubtless be grease monkey and other scripts to hide it.
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    Oh I agree. I just think is part of the equation perhaps the thinner and lighter will enable for better processor? Not an AR guy , although I lived my oculus until FB got hold of it. Didn't use it ever again after that day.
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