I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm addicted to information

Re:I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm ad... by CompoundEyes on Monday September 14, 2026 @08:53PM (#49706331)

My grandma always had the morning paper delivered. When I stayed with her during the summer I’d start in the top left corner of the first page and read all the way to the bottom right corner of the last and everything in between. What a 10 year old kid got out of the grain report? I’m not sure. But I was amped up on her homemade cinnamon rolls and multiple glasses of orange juice. It was wonderful. These days I’m more selective about what information I take in!

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Re:I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm ad... by nonethewiser on Monday September 14, 2026 @08:55PM (#49706359)

I remember reading the newspaper in the break room and at lunch. About 2013 or so. That's all their was. Well, for me, because I was a late smartphone adopter.

I kind of lump in "internet" (late 90s) with "internet in everyone's pockets at all times". But there was a fairly large gap there. Especially when you consider the limits of 3 and even 4g.

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Re:I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm ad... by CompoundEyes on Monday September 14, 2026 @09:14PM (#49706499)

Do you subscribe now? I’ve toyed with the idea — I think I’d be more aware of local news / serendipitous things I normally wouldn’t seek out.

I’ve been considering subscribing to some high quality signal / low to no ad type written publications. Asterisk, IEEE spectrum, NOEMA. Make getting mail fun again.

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Re:I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm ad... by Arnt on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @04:19AM (#49709371)

I subscribe. There's a newspaper downstairs, I'll fetch it later. The paper news is better than the screen news, and I'm not going to try to explain what better means.

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Re:I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm ad... by m463 on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @12:46AM (#49722199)

> What a 10 year old kid got out of the grain report?

ocular pattern recognition, clumping of letters into words, then ideas. vocabulary. grammar. sentence structure.

reading, especially early, leads to so many good things.

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