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Guru Self Help Singh enlightens the nirvana of no notifications. That is all.

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[–] Mikina@programming.dev 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I highly recommend reading and at least once trying to implement the Newport's Digital Minimalism. Even if you don't go all in, it has a lot of food for thought in regards to technolpoy usage.

I've spent almost a year with a dumb Nokia (the LTE version of bananaphone) that did still have a (barely usable) Maps app and also could make a hotspot, so I could use my powered off smartphone I always carried with me for emergencies.

I have since returned back to using smartphone, mostly because of work requirements, and have fallen out of a lot of Minimalism habits, but things like turned off notifications and learning not to care about missing stuff/replying later has stayed with me. Once you get rid of notification FOMO, it's pretty liberating.

I should get a dumb phone again.