Single Purpose Devices

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Moving my music to a dedicated device has helped reduce my phone use and dependence (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world to c/singlepurpose@lemmy.world

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I got a nice set of wired headphones and a portable music player (Snowsky Echo Mini). It’s been great. I don’t feel the need to have the phone beside my bed as much and I can go out with my phone on me, but switched off.

I’m thinking about what other use I could separate from the phone, but I think for me that music was the main one. Podcasts would be harder because of how frequently they update.

I’ve also found having a Rubik’s cube on me as well as a yo-yo has kept me off my phone even longer.

What do you think would be a substantial use case you could separate from your phone?

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[–] Libb@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

What do you think would be a substantial use case you could separate from your phone?

I've been using smartphone since the first iPhone, btw. It's just I quickly realized how toxic they were, the huge risks they were for our privacy too, and decided to I needed to maintain as much distance as possible and therefore quickly learned to barely rely on my phone at all, and only for what I have no choice, aka IDs, security and banking, taxis/Uber (those two not being strictly required but a real pain to not have with me for when I need to get one).

The idea for me being to only use for what's required (in my case: ID, security, passwords, taxis/Uber) and leave all the rest to other tools.

Social? I do Lemmy (an nothing else) only on the computer. No notification on the go (it's never that urgent or important), no fomo (I can't be bothered), no distraction.
Messaging? Barely any, and only through SMS. People wanting to reach me know that there are better means to reach me than an app and they either accept it or they won't reach me... which is perfectly fine with me too as they're the ones wanting to get in touch, not I (and never that urgently either: I will use an email and whenever I can snail mail have my preference ;)
Reading? I read printed books (out of privacy and ownership concerns and after almost 20 years mostly reading ebooks, if you want to know) and carry a pocket book with me.
Writing? I take my notes with a pen on paper (I just created a post about that ;)
Games? I play chess... irl (I even carry a small pocket chess set, just in case). I only play lichess or chess.com only at the computer.
Music and podcasts? I still own my iPod classic (the one with the wheel and no Internet at all) but I seldom use it since I barely listen to music or podcasts when I'm out for my long daily walks.

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The pen and notebook has been good for me too. I had to get in the habit of carrying a satchel but since I have it’s just another reason to keep my phone switched off.

One thing I do feel dependent for is reading articles with text-to-speech. The phone is just faster and easier to operate for that (1. Turn on reader view and 2. Swipe down with two fingers to start the voice reader).