Edit: These minimalist launchers force you to spend more time on your phone looking through the app drawer for the app you want. I prefer a launcher that lets me open an app faster, thereby spending less time on my phone.
Every other launcher on F-droid is one of these “minimalist” launchers. And they’re completely useless insofar as your phone ceases to be boring and minimalist as soon as you open an app. We’re addicted to apps not home screens.
One thing that really works to make apps less interesting sensorially is to turn the screen grayscale. For anyone who feels addicted to their phones, you can set this in the accessibility settings in android
they tend to be less of an addiction because we usually don’t keep them turned on all the time. There’s a time for turning off and stopping for the day, unlike phones, that we tend to use at any moment
i don’t understand the phone addiction, so i don’t think i’m qualified to answer that; but i can say that i notice that people speak and behave differently if they rely more heavily on their phones than i do.
and i also suppose that the fact that i don’t bring my laptop everywhere with me and that the only time i use my phone at home is for phone conversations make sense.
Sad to hear that. Grayscale helped me a lot, both on mobile and desktop. It’s alsoimportant to try finding interesting things like hobbies, to fill the gap left by the phone, or we end up coming back to it, because nothing else seems interesting. I struggled a lot before finding a tech usage time that I feel like not harmuf to me, and even so, I have to be constantly observing if I’m not becoming addicted again
I’ve found for me cutting off/minimalising the constant stream of new screamy content and advertising does a lot to lessen the addiction.
Started by deleting social media (because fuck fb/yt/x/insta/… bend the knee= byebye).
The hardest was youtube but not impossible.
Switch to a frontend only and copy only the channels you really care about. Then after a while you’ll feel like it’s just not worth it. It’s the finely tuned algorithms that keep you coming back. Fuck em. We’re not cattle.
Plenty of launches like this on F-Droid.
Edit: These minimalist launchers force you to spend more time on your phone looking through the app drawer for the app you want. I prefer a launcher that lets me open an app faster, thereby spending less time on my phone.
Every other launcher on F-droid is one of these “minimalist” launchers. And they’re completely useless insofar as your phone ceases to be boring and minimalist as soon as you open an app. We’re addicted to apps not home screens.
One thing that really works to make apps less interesting sensorially is to turn the screen grayscale. For anyone who feels addicted to their phones, you can set this in the accessibility settings in android
i sometimes wonder if i lucked out getting addicted to laptops instead of phones.
they tend to be less of an addiction because we usually don’t keep them turned on all the time. There’s a time for turning off and stopping for the day, unlike phones, that we tend to use at any moment
i never shut mine off.
congrats, you’re officially an outlier lol
jokes aside, do you fin it do be less detrimental than phone addiction?
i don’t understand the phone addiction, so i don’t think i’m qualified to answer that; but i can say that i notice that people speak and behave differently if they rely more heavily on their phones than i do.
and i also suppose that the fact that i don’t bring my laptop everywhere with me and that the only time i use my phone at home is for phone conversations make sense.
Grayscale never helped for me for some reason, maybe I am too addicted
Sad to hear that. Grayscale helped me a lot, both on mobile and desktop. It’s alsoimportant to try finding interesting things like hobbies, to fill the gap left by the phone, or we end up coming back to it, because nothing else seems interesting. I struggled a lot before finding a tech usage time that I feel like not harmuf to me, and even so, I have to be constantly observing if I’m not becoming addicted again
I completely agree.
I’ve found for me cutting off/minimalising the constant stream of new screamy content and advertising does a lot to lessen the addiction.
Started by deleting social media (because fuck fb/yt/x/insta/… bend the knee= byebye).
The hardest was youtube but not impossible. Switch to a frontend only and copy only the channels you really care about. Then after a while you’ll feel like it’s just not worth it. It’s the finely tuned algorithms that keep you coming back. Fuck em. We’re not cattle.