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by beforeolives 1835 days ago
No. My phone is really useful.

Why do you want to quit in the first place? Are you finding it difficult to quit because it's inconvenient or because of some behavioral pattern that you want to eliminate? If it's the former, I wouldn't bother with it - you're just making your life harder for no benefit.

In general I think that the benefits of quitting stuff (social media, entertainment, devices etc) are really exaggerated in some circles. Cal Newport's book Digital Minimalism was very popular, there was also the whole concept about dopamine fasting and similar ideas - I really think that we have very little evidence to back those claims and it's become a kind of broscience in which people are sharing what works personally for them as fact, or misattributing effects and relationships and are very susceptible to confirmation bias.