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by jackfischer 1255 days ago
The emphasis on disconnecting resonates. The Light Phone guys discuss it with AIM as an example of the old state of affairs.

https://medium.com/the-light-phone/we-re-not-anti-technology...

>We didn’t always have a small computer with us at all times. In the days of AIM, “away messages” and “signing off”, there was a specific chair and a specific desk with our family computer, and when you sat in that chair and that desk and listened patiently to the modem sounds connecting, then you could be on the internet. Leaving that chair left the internet behind.

Do Not Disturb helps with external, incoming communication but not with outgoing.