Kirk

I am glad I had the advanced wisdom and intellect to recognize and correct for the error.

The LinkedIn-styled writing here is hard for me to get through, but I think the general gist is that for profit platforms are easier to onboard which I agree with. This line stands out:

And what do we get in return? A worse experience than cloud-based services.

I have to disagree somewhat, it's a different experience that is absolutely more difficult in many ways, but for those of us who value privacy, control over our data, and don't like ads, the trade-off is worth it. Also it goes without saying that the usability of selfhosted apps has exploded in the past few years and it will likely become less and less of an issue.

Fortunately "groupthink" on the fediverse isn't a structural problem since nobody controls all instances and every instance has different moderation styles.

Big if true!

Always preferred Mason/Ball to Weck because the Weck rubber rims can be finicky and little metal clips tend to go missing.

Paper is always preferred but as others have said, ebooks don't take up any space so I end up owning a lot more of them.

Oh man I love this haha thanks for sharing. You should get a pixelfed account!

I also noticed that when Lemmy links do appear it's often to a random federated instance, not the original source.

eSIMs definitely make it harder...

Still, I get closer and closer every day to taking the plunge. My smartphone is pretty stripped down without any social media or games, etc. But it is still more distracting than I would prefer.

Thanks for sharing this, I really like seeing the methods of how some people are coping with today's distraction hellscape.

Been really interested in this and/or the Light Phone! I'm curious if your plan is to use it as a full-time daily driver? Or an occasional "I want to disconnect right now" thing?

I really wish carriers made it easy to swap where your phone number is pointed because I would love one of these for weekend/evening use. But I'm pretty intimidated to switch full time.

Would also love to see a follow up in a few months to see if you found it sustainable.

TNG is the gateway drug

There is some back story needed with that one... but maybe it's tangential enough to make the viewer want to know more?