Adults and teens concerned about their screen time are turning in their smartphones for “dumber” models.
Buried in the settings of many smartphones is the option to look up how much on average you are staring at your phone per day.
It can bring an uncomfortable realisation, that what was supposed to be a useful piece of technology has become an obsession.
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According to a study by Harvard University, using social networking sites lights up the same part of the brain that is also triggered when taking an addictive substance. This has raised concerns about phone habits among youth.
In the UK, research by Ofcom estimates that around a quarter of children aged five to seven years old now have their own smartphone.
Links have been shown in some studies between use of social media and a negative effect on mental health - especially in children.
Phones still pre-infected with anti-libre software, software we don’t control.
When’s the last time Tor, OBS, NewPipe or F-Droid abused us, exploited us? Never, they don’t fail to include a libre software license text file, like AGPL.
absolute power corrupts absolutely. It’s not that those softwares are noble, they’re just decentralized. I will say it’s impressive that Tor doesn’t have some people pulling the strings trying to take over (but it’s probably the NSA right?)
OBS is decentralised? Not the first word I would pick.
is it not open source? That helps to decentralize power though powerful figures can still appear in those spaces too, like (benevolent) Torvalds on the Linux kernel
It’s libre software.
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It’s distributed under the GNU General Public License v2 (or any later version) - see the accompanying COPYING file for more details.
Yes
Social media? My phone is in my hand all day so I can play Word Cookies.
And you can have my Word Cookies app when you pry it from my cold, dead… um… cloud backup?
I wish I could go back. Sadly too much of my life relies on this shit.
You absolutely can! Ive been doing something similar.
Two devices - one that’s a mini computer, and the other is a phone.
That mini computer is a old phone without a network plan. And if it doesn’t have wifi, I can’t jump onto social media or anything. Which is pretty nice as I’m reading books or writing on that device with “less” distractions. And if I get a text message, i quickly check it on my phone and put it away.
I’m addicted to Lemmy, send help!
Carl is that you? Oh wait, I thought you said Lenny, sorry.
Got a dumb phone a few weeks back. Definitely helped on that front.
It’s just really hard to find a decent MP3 player to go along with it these days.
I dusted off and refurbished my ipod classic for that duty.
They’re going for a pretty penny these days. I used to be an Archos guy. Also a fan of the Sandisk Sands ClipZip but goddamn those batteries are tiny and don’t last the 10+ years since manufacture.
After ten months of waiting I finally got my cyberdeck with 4g modem and have started to migrate my communication over to it. I’ll start leaving the house without a phone soon.
I chose beer and amphetamines (substituted) to curb my alcohol and drug addiction (same fucking thing, I know…).
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Some folks want to see the world crumble, some dont
I only use Lemmy with turned off scores and it still is somewhat above just a habit. It really makes wonders for being not addicted though when you don’t see if someone gives you points/likes or not. That was always what fucked with my brain the most and for me it is a single thing that changes addiction to just a habit.
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