Reply to RE: i am a better person without my phone by Thoughts of Widdershins
“use that same service along with my self-hosted music collection on Navidrome to listen to music in my vehicle when I am traveling, take pictures of shit (especially at gigs or if I am traveling) and then use it to scroll through Facebook or Reddit.”
I also have a self-hosted music thing, take pictures when am out (I try to do it on my camera) but don’t use Facebook on my phone anymore and stopped using Reddit a few years ago
“I don’t think my iPhone usage is out of the ordinary. I have seen people (like my ex-wife) glued to their phone day and night.”
Going with that point, a lot of people don’t know that their phone tracks usage and has screen time limits built-in and can be set to stop you when you want
“They seem like they would have trouble functioning without it.”
And to that point, a lot of company’s want you to download a app for example to get rewards or to login to things on your computer (TOTP, SMS 2FA, Google, etc) so some people have to use it
“I’d like to say I am all for toning down my phone usage. But honestly, I am not glued to it, it is used in a very constructive way”
I was trying that too during the summer and got it down to (most days) under 2 hours in total as I said about stopped using Facebook