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  • 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.

  • 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.

    I would never buy this, but it's nice that it exists

  • 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.

    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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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 "distractions free" phone:

    Any android phone.

    In a work peofile 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.

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    So fucking scary how the world is turning into that book. Its like these fuckers read it as an owner's manual instead of what it was meant to be.
  • How will the space race affect our environment? (Video 25mins)

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  • Tribo777: Promoções e Recompensas Que Valem a Pena

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  • Welcome to the web we lost

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    Is it though? Its always far easier to be loud and obnoxious than do something constructive, even with the internet and LLMs, in fact those things are amplifiers which if anything make the attention imbalance even more drastic and unrepresentative of actual human behaviour. In the time it takes me to write this comment some troll can write a dozen hateful ones, or a bot can write a thousand. Doesn't mean humans are shitty in a 1000/1 ratio, just means shitty people can now be a thousand times louder.
  • New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why

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    The U660F transmission in my wife's 2015 Highlander doesn't have a dipstick. Luckily that transmission is solid and easy to service anyway, you just need a skinny funnel to fill it.
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    Won't someone think of the shareholders?!
  • Meta Reportedly Eyeing 'Super Sensing' Tech for Smart Glasses

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    I see your point but also I just genuinely don't have a mind for that shit. Even my own close friends and family, it never pops into my head to ask about that vacation they just got back from or what their kids are up to. I rely on social cues from others, mainly my wife, to sort of kick start my brain. I just started a new job. I can't remember who said they were into fishing and who didn't, and now it's anxiety inducing to try to figure out who is who. Or they ask me a friendly question and I get caught up answering and when I'm done I forget to ask it back to them (because frequently asking someone about their weekend or kids or whatever is their way of getting to share their own life with you, but my brain doesn't think that way). I get what you're saying. It could absolutely be used for performative interactions but for some of us people drift away because we aren't good at being curious about them or remembering details like that. And also, I have to sit through awkward lunches at work where no one really knows what to talk about or ask about because outside of work we are completely alien to one another. And it's fine. It wouldn't be worth the damage it does. I have left behind all personally identifiable social media for the same reason. But I do hate how social anxiety and ADHD makes friendship so fleeting.
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