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Re:Having Your Smartphone Nearby Takes a Toll on Your Thinking by peakaboo on Monday August 09, 2021 @04:54PM (#28122221)
This problem will not be solved by technology. If you want away from it bad enough, you will stop using a smartphone or at least uninstall all apps that are for chatting and interacting with the Internet.

Then you install Lineage OS without google apps on it so you have no connection to google on it.

It would take quite some willpower for someone to do that but the added massive bonus is that no tech company can read your private conversations or look at your images.

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Re:Having Your Smartphone Nearby Takes a Toll on Your Thinking by cratermoon on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @06:46PM (#28135719)
> If you want away from it bad enough

This vastly understates the nature of addicting technologies and the psychological tricks used to ensnare users and keep their attention. Willpower is the oft-cited by never sufficient commodity used to deflect blame to the individual. No neuroscientist in her right mind would tell you that all it takes is willpower. If that were true, then addiction, to gambling, tobacco, and drugs, and physical inactivity wouldn't exist.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9311924/

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