Technology

58012 readers

3355 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

186

“Dumb phones” offer an escape from the endless scroll (www.ktla.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

43 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Blisterexe 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Just get an android phone without google play services or microG, get a minimalist launcher, then only install the apps you need straight from the web

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Just"

[–] Blisterexe 2 points 4 months ago

What do you mean? Most people already have a suitable android phone either in their pocket or in a closet, and a cheap one is significantly less expensive than the dumb phones that are sold to people who want to stop doomscrolling

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I was thinking about this after posting my comment.

I have some phones laying around that I can try to install a different OS on.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrZacTUhH0c

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.piped.video/watch?v=OrZacTUhH0c

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.