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by jeofken 570 days ago
For me the only really useful intervention was getting a black and white e-ink Android smartphone. I started to read a book per month and my short video watching time was decimated.

I got the Bigme Hibreak which isn’t the worst, but lacks recent android versions. Gives me hours of my life back every day, compared to the phone addiction I experience with my lcd colour screen smartphone
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alexey-salmin 570 days ago
I'm surprised there are so few on the market. The reason I gave up on Nokia in 2020 was a handful of apps: taxi, maps, messengers.

All of that would perfectly work on e-ink. Instead I got a Pixel and after four years I have attention span of a squirrel.

Really have to do something about it, will try grayscale for now.

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jarko27 570 days ago
As an experiment, I wanted to try something similar, but more extreme maybe since it's not Android AFAIK

https://www.thelightphone.com.

Also I wonder if my app is working nicely on an e-ink smartphone, very interesting.

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