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1. brushf+TC[view] [source] 2025-01-22 15:30:42
>>saeede+(OP)
Apps to fight apps has never worked for me. When I'm bored/tired enough, it becomes a game to disable my own restrictions.

What works for me is removing the antecedent completely by charging my phone in another room at night.

Now the battle is easier: Decide once a day to put it there, and track how many days you succeed.

For me that's a lot easier than having it in my pocket, where the Internet is always a couple lazy taps away. Now I at least have to walk to it if I want it, and that often "breaks the spell."

I finish work and chores hours earlier when my phone is charging in another room, without consciously doing anything else differently.

It really makes me want a 1980s-style cellphone with no screen and big physical buttons.

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2. DamnIn+9k1[view] [source] 2025-01-22 19:26:28
>>brushf+TC
> It really makes me want a 1980s-style cellphone with no screen and big physical buttons.

If you're using an iPhone, you can use Assistive Access to disable a lot of stuff, making it functionally simiilar to a flip phone:

https://support.apple.com/guide/assistive-access-iphone/set-...

There's probably an Android equivalent, but I can't speak to that.

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