I chose beer and amphetamines (substituted) to curb my alcohol and drug addiction (same fucking thing, I know…).
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You jest, but without cannabis, I'd probably be in prison or dead in a ditch somewhere from opioid overdose.
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... using social networking sites lights up the same part of the brain that is also triggered when taking an addictive substance.
I can absolutely believe this. When I was having trouble quitting nicotine one of the ways I'd distract myself was to just sit and scroll bullshit on my phone. I can say without a doubt that it was hitting some of the same spots as the addiction I was trying to quit, for sure
My smart phone makes a nice computer, but a crap phone. An older one couldn't do phone and Google Maps without a reboot between them.
Looking at feature phones just to have a phone.
I wish I could go back. Sadly too much of my life relies on this shit.
You absolutely can! Ive been doing something similar.
Two devices - one that's a mini computer, and the other is a phone.
That mini computer is a old phone without a network plan. And if it doesn't have wifi, I can't jump onto social media or anything. Which is pretty nice as I'm reading books or writing on that device with "less" distractions. And if I get a text message, i quickly check it on my phone and put it away.
Got a dumb phone a few weeks back. Definitely helped on that front.
It's just really hard to find a decent MP3 player to go along with it these days.
I dusted off and refurbished my ipod classic for that duty.
They're going for a pretty penny these days. I used to be an Archos guy. Also a fan of the Sandisk Sands ClipZip but goddamn those batteries are tiny and don't last the 10+ years since manufacture.
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After ten months of waiting I finally got my cyberdeck with 4g modem and have started to migrate my communication over to it. I'll start leaving the house without a phone soon.
What cyberdeck do you have?
I got a clockwork pi! The support is a bit rough but if you're comfortable with Linux and package management, it's an absolute blast.
Did you get the devterm or uconsole?
Uconsole