return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago“Dumb phones” offer an escape from the endless scrollwww.ktla.comexternal-linkmessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1201arrow-down116
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minus-squareNaoPb@eviltoast.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoThis is why I’m looking for a dumb phone. Too much time wasted on doomscrolling.
minus-squareBlisterexe@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 months agoJust get an android phone without google play services or microG, get a minimalist launcher, then only install the apps you need straight from the web
minus-squareBlisterexe@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoWhat do you mean? Most people already have a suitable android phone either in their pocket or in a closet, and a cheap one is significantly less expensive than the dumb phones that are sold to people who want to stop doomscrolling
minus-squareNaoPb@eviltoast.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoI was thinking about this after posting my comment. I have some phones laying around that I can try to install a different OS on.
minus-squareAndromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·6 months agoJust like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrZacTUhH0c
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This is why I’m looking for a dumb phone. Too much time wasted on doomscrolling.
Just get an android phone without google play services or microG, get a minimalist launcher, then only install the apps you need straight from the web
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What do you mean? Most people already have a suitable android phone either in their pocket or in a closet, and a cheap one is significantly less expensive than the dumb phones that are sold to people who want to stop doomscrolling
I was thinking about this after posting my comment.
I have some phones laying around that I can try to install a different OS on.
Just like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrZacTUhH0c
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=OrZacTUhH0c
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.