> I think the real cause of the loneliness epidemic is that the older generation never taught us how to socialise and make friends.
That is false. First because most of the social learning is done by mimicking what others do and we certainly all saw our parents invite and get invited to stuff.
Plus there is school which is the #1 place where your learn to socialize and make friends.
the issue I have is that I want to have some apps that will need to be approved somehow. banking for starters, but some other things as well.
I just got the bigme hibreak pro, which is an e-ink android phone, and while I loved it in all cases, I realised it was a total dealbreaker that the Android Auto navigation was broken (something to do with their display chip couldn't report the right display size, I also want to be able to take and look at colour pictures. so e-ink didn't quite work for me there.)
Otherwise, I love the idea of this!
I think I would like a bit of an escape hatch: maybe have the normal web-browser that's accessible under like 4 or 5 clicks.
The big issue isn't just that these phones are set up to be addictive, but they are also too legitimately useful in other situations as well. I use facebook to scroll AND check marketplace. I use instagram to scroll AND talk to friends.
so some friction is necessary, but some friction is a total dealbreaker. if I can't bank or navigate, then the change of phone had affected me too much for me to not counteract my whole life needs to change in some way.
I've been thinking about this often, because i wanted the hibreak to work.. I actually think there needs to be some sort of "Life OS" where we can get told how to live in this new world where we can't check our phones as often. Do we include "look at a physical map" as part of our routine or do we just allow android auto to work and accept that it might be an avenue of leaking through some content? (not a great example)
That's so funny, i made the same thing. Looks to function exactly the same.
https://quickfit.dre-west.workers.dev/projects.
(click "signin as guest" -- the signup doesn't work so don't worry about that. a friend added it so I could save and access on different computers but we ended up not finishing it)
As if such a pesky geographic detail ever stopped USA from invading Afghanistan when fifteen Saudi, two UAE, and one Lebanese nationals attacked them in 2001.
Israel was created after WW2, and it has never been at peace. It's kind of proof that it's not going to work. They're not fighting for survival they're fighting for expansion. Nethanyaou even claims this point: his mission is the greater Israel project, to take land from egypt and surrounding countries, and settlements in Gaza are used to block the formation of a Palestinian state.
If Jews are allowed an ethnostate, then any country in the world should also be allowed an ethnostate.
If Jews are allowed to have nukes in the middle east, then any country in the middle east should be allowed to have nukes.
Remember that IDF were told to stand down during the music festival. They're also allowed to shoot Israeli civilians if it helps their objectives. And somehow they new about the Australian mass shooting in Sydney months before it happened, without telling Australian authorities.
Israel is not doing a good job in terms of world peace and I would say that if they can't find peace then the state of Israel should be dissolved for the good of the planet
Well the greater israel part and expansionist aims at least are quite clear and no conspiracy.
And he's asking some valid questions, why was israel allowed to be created and why are we supporting it's continued genocidal expansion.
Unfortunately he's wrong referring to the zionists as jews, they never really followed a religion, and the palestinians are the most real "jews" if we're talking in terms of genetics
I actually just recently bought a big me hibreak pro phone. Eink, supports Google Play natively, (I can still install Instagram, Google maps, Facebook, and WhatsApp, etc). Which were my two biggest needs.
It has been pretty great to use. The whole paradigm changes, because it also has the slow refresh, and the screen is physically different, single level brightness.
Funnily enough, I now catch myself with increased short term anxiety and FOMO. I've just acknowledged it as withdrawal syndrome from the dopamine of short form videos. That and I misplace the phone a bit more now because it's no longer a crack pipe.
It's taking effort to stick with it, but I increasingly love it. And I still get to partake in "society" and social media, just on my own terms.
You also realise just how many ads there are, because they don't draw you in so you can see them more critically. What I thought was one in 20, is actually something more like one in 4
To be fair, it is definitely not in my skill set, but LLMs could made to make better decisions, maybe we could all start giving CEOs everything a reason to cool their beans somewhat.
A lot of work in project controls and management are simple enough that any system that can handle data that isn’t reliably structured could do it. Read project team updates each week. Are we on time and on budget? If yes, commend the team and write a glowing report of the AI’s wise and dynamic leadership to operations, if not, encourage the team and recommend operations outsource the employees.
I make an effort to talk to people and now we have "come over to dinner" friendships with people we met at a public park.
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