Re:Screens Are Good, Actually
by carlgreene on Saturday November 18, 2023 @11:49AM
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Curious what your experience has been like and how seriously you take it.
What do you do for work where you are able to not work on a screen? How do you communicate with family and friends? Etc…
Re:Screens Are Good, Actually
by temporarara on Saturday November 18, 2023 @12:34PM
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Different person but anyway. Well, in work I use a computer and it has a screen, so my existence is not at all without screens. Now, I communicate with family and friends in real life and sometimes in phone, my phone is very old and while it technically has a small non-touchscreen it's useless for anything other than brief SMS messages. I've got a computer also in my home but I don't use facebook or any chat programs, only a few anonymous niche sites comparable to hacker news to stay tuned to what's happening in the world and gather information of the topics I like. I would probably go insane if my family and friends were bombarding me with smalltalk all the time.
Zero notifications outside work hours, I'll check my email a few times a week if I'm not expecting anything. Life is good. I'd say the absolute majority of the information we receive is either non-important or outright harmful and it's beneficial to block as much as you can possibly can.
Re:Screens Are Good, Actually
by the_powerless on Saturday November 18, 2023 @03:14PM
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Not sure where I said I was screenless. However, I have no smartphone, no social media (apart from occasionally poking the HN bear), no personal laptop, no smart watch, etc.
Re:Screens Are Good, Actually
by zingababba on Saturday November 18, 2023 @06:37PM
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I've thrown my phone into the Grand Canyon. I've also gone months without a wireless phone turned on. Good for the brain.
It really is. I've done it (albeit not literally).
>Hell, I’d just like a break from the constant flood of notifications screaming for my attention at all hours of the day.
>Say I’m on a work trip and my husband sends me a cute video of our kid — how exactly do I watch that on a screenless AI Pin? How do I text my sister about something gross that happened to me without telling everyone else in my immediate vicinity about it, too?
Then you have to figure out if the downsides are worth the benefits. The tricky thing, much like other addictions, is that you don't realise what a heavy price you are paying until you try without.
>If there’s a path to this screenless future, it needs to be paved with a few screens in the present.
This statement makes no sense.