Thread 106280781

I'm using low-tech devices on the go. just ebook reading, journalling, a digital Kodak camera, and music on an mp3 player. but i feel like something is missing. any ideas how to enhance this low-tech setup WITHOUT anything that is connected to the internet?
i would be open to a device that can install Discord but doesn't do anything else. the important thing is no smartphones, no laptops, no tablets or anything similar that can very easily be used to stuff that will distract and remove intentionality.

>>106280781 (OP)
> i feel like something is missing
what's missing is dopamine
you've fried your brain, you need to give it time to adjust to find pleasure and completeness from other stuff
>t detoxing from vidya and the internet and I know that feeling cause it was the same when I was detoxxing from drugs

>>106280824
>you've fried your brain, you need to give it time to adjust to find pleasure and completeness from other stuff
valid wow

>>106280781 (OP)
Give yourself more breaks from constant stimulation. I'm also recovering from going overboard on keeping my mind perpetually stimulated with whatever or another.
Boredom sucks, but some amount is necessary.

>>106280781 (OP)
Stop the larp and just turn off notifications. That's literally all you need to do. Its OK to have red pips. You don't need to read and respond to everything.

larping faggot

>>106280853
>>106280857
unhappy people with no agency in their lives

>>106280863
it's not me who is lacking basic self-control. I touch my phone maybe twice a week when I need to make a phone call.

>>106280853
Oh and don't use social media. That includes this site and doubly so for other attention sinks like discord, xitter, tiktok etc. Yes, even group chats. Notifications from these are attention sinks and diatractions. Your attention is valuable, don't give it away for free.

>>106280883
>I touch my phone maybe twice a week when I need to make a phone call.
guess you don't have a meaningful job then because i'm making like 4-5 phone calls setting shit up every weekday

>>106280781 (OP)
Dopamine isn't a toxin, and it fluctuates naturally. Abstaining from stimulating activities does NOT reset or reduce dopamine in a meaningful way. Stop falling for silly memes.

>>106280863
I'm picking and choosing what I pay attention to. You're hiding from reality in a larp. You are the person without agency, and clearly very unhappy.

>>106280896
I don't work in a call center. we sync via Slack and Teams, which I run on my laptop.

>>106280781 (OP)
i really dont get why people value reading books so much. what makes it different from reading an article or wikipedia on your phone or PC

>>106280781 (OP)
>I'm using low-tech devices on the go. just ebook reading, journalling, a digital Kodak camera, and music on an mp3 player.
fell for the meme award, just nuke your internet connection with airplane mode - you dont need more tech slop on your life, you need self-containment and reeducation, using a dns that blocks sites you get distract with can help, you dont lose anything by not visiting 4cuck.
>Discord
you have to go back.

degoogled AOSP + F-Droid.
there - that's all you need.

>>106280781 (OP)
>any ideas how to enhance this low-tech setup WITHOUT anything that is connected to the internet?

why do retards think that dopamine is literally heroin?

>>106280935
>what makes it different from reading an article or wikipedia on your phone or PC
it's not different, but books also include fiction you retard

>>106280941
>using a dns that blocks sites you get distract with can help, you dont lose anything by not visiting 4cuck.
this doesn't help when you can just disable the DNS. to really detox you have to prevent the urge from being there.

>>106280935
this has to be one of the lowest IQ posts i have ever read on /g kek, congratulations.

>>106280962
my only problem with game boys and similar gaming handhelds is that they have a concrete shelf life and zero support from the manufacturer. i don't see the justification in spending money on something that will definitely fail one day
although game boy/game boy advance is more appealing because of the use of AA batteries

>>106280973
thats something ive found a bit weird about this, i sometimes get youtube ads on my phone that talk about "dopamine addiction". to me thats like talking about having a water addiction

>>106280977
>fiction
thats what r/AmIOverreacting is for

>>106280982
>you can just disable the DNS.
thats why you need reeducation and self-containemnt you braidead retard.

>>106280994
yet you cant dispute it. curious!

>>106280998
They are like roaches, they even surivive nuclear bombin

>>106280935
people mean fiction
books is a substitute for vidya and tvseries

also textbooks when you are learning something is way better than youtube + webslop

>>106280781 (OP)
You can't be addicted to dopamine produced by your own body, this is pseudoscience self help bullshit. It's The Secret but for men.

the internet was such a mistake
I don't mean in general web communicating or text communication but it's just a giant shopping mall and drug market
>>106281315
I'm addicted to my smartphone, the colors on the screen, the animations, etc. I'm addicted to screens.

>>106280781 (OP)
This is caused because of the human ask for wanting things to be easy.
The solution is to get stressed the fuck out, it's both the super power and the kryptonite.

>>106280896
>i'm making like 4-5 phone calls setting shit up every weekday
I was about to call you a fool; Then I realized I've actually been making thrice that amount for the past three years, working as an hotline technician.
Kinda grim.

>>106280781 (OP)
I'm addicted to unix and programming, I feel empty and unproductive when I'm consuming anything like books and not creating something myself.
I currently feel very unproductive because I ran out of ideas for what to write, I can't reinvent the wheel 500 times over
What should i do??

>>106281498
>I feel empty and unproductive

The problem is the productivist ideology. Where does the idea come from, that being "productive" is good?

>>106280824
fpbp
>>106280781 (OP)
stop using shitcord

>>106281590
It is the nature of white men to create. You wouldn’t understand.

>>106281498
Expand your skill so you can make something you always wanted to but cannot.

>>106280973
If you have too much of it, it nukes your ability to focus on boring things for long times.

>>106281590
If I don't do something, what the fuck am I doing?
sitting around is boring, if I'm unproductive I might as well be dead.

>>106281620
How do I expand my skills to create an exokernel for GNU, a microkernel except not broken garbage like NT/hurd
I suck at math and don't get better no matter how much I try.

>>106280781 (OP)
>DOPAMINE DETOX

>>106280824
>you need to give it time
How much time? i want to stop being miserable.

>>106280897
>Stop trying to turn into a better person, goy.
>Just coom to porn, watch and eat slop until you die, goy.

>>106280781 (OP)
Kind of related, but I always thought it was weird that stuff like picrel (or the other gazillion clones) even exist. Do people really need to buy these expensive niche devices for something that can already be done in their current phones? I remember at point even seeing "minimalist clocks" which only difference was using an eink screen, which in itself is kind of cool (but unnecessary), but it was being advertised as this epic miniamlist detox clock or whatever. Are people really this retarded to buy these things thinking they are "improving" their lifes by doing so?

>>106281689
just uninstall any proprietary garbage, do you have this little self control?

>>106281698
That's what I'm saying. You can easily take your current phone, uninstall the "harmful" stuff and be done with it. I don't know what those minimalist phones even exist, the worst part is that you're limiting yourself for no reason whatsoever. And if you feel like colors or fancy icons are distracting, you can easily get rid of those as well (at least on android, dunno about apple). It's like normalfags really need an excuse just to consume new product.

>>106280781 (OP)
>a digital Kodak camera
I just was thinking about getting one to finally have a hobby that forces me out of the house. I've browsed /p/ for a bit to get recommendations, but it's a really wild palce. May I ask what camera you've got, anon?

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>>106281643
If only there were machines which are excellent at math you could make use of. Alas.

>>106281689
I thought a big part of the appeal is supposed to be privacy. You get off the Android iOS CIA duopoly

>>106280888
Don't forget 4chan.

>>106281698
do you have this little reading comprehension?

there is no such thing as "dopamine overload" or "frying your dopamine receptors" or any retarded horseshit like that, it's just nonsensical broscience and your brain doesn't actually work that way. what's actually happening is that you have shitty habits and not enough discipline, there is no chemical reaction that is forcing you eat like shit and scroll through social media for 16 hours a day, you just need to learn some self-control.

>dopamine detox
We're reaching levels of fucking stupidity even /pol/ wouldn't dare into.

>>106280824
You're not "detoxing" from anything. The problem is treating hobbies as your day to day activities, they're not supposed to supplant jobs or education. You're not addicted, you're bored.

>>106280781 (OP)
>Dopamine detox
>Going from a burger and fries to a bunch of fruits that are loaded with sugar

>>106282701
I gotta get off this site before I turn retarded, like you.

>>106282730
ive found that consuming soda gives me nightmares and makes me neurotic.

>>106282875
fruits have lots of sugar but your body doesnt process it because most of the sugar is carried away by the fiber the sugar is attached to. when you consume a liiquid drink, that liquid gets metabolized almost in its entirety and relatively quickly.


t. bro scientist.

>>106282909
>wtf drinking soda affects my energy!? the dopamine must have spiked...
it's caffeine you retard

>>106282944
tea doesnt make me crazy and it has more caffine.

>>106281736
Apple does not allow customization. Hence its downfall, among other things like, oh yeah- Intelligence.

>>106281632
>sitting around is boring
it isn't if you actually get shit done. then it's rewarding. maybe you aren't actually productive

>>106281689
>>106281736
I don't own a Light Phone but the appeal of "dumb" devices is that there is not even installing more functionality on them. on a smartphone you can just reinstall everything again any time the temptation becomes great.

>>106281821
FZ45, simple $100 Walmart camera. takes pictures as good or better than an iPhone, however you won't get all the extra computational stuff that iPhones have that help with focus and motion.

>>106280998
>spending money on something that will definitely fail one day
now explain how your digital Kodak camera and mp3 player are aby different

you don't even know what dopamine is

>>106281628
it's the complete opposite