Asklemmy

ALL: I don't own a smartphone, dumb cellphone, landline, or anything else. I don't own a tablet either.

I only use my computer without any camera's, microphones or other feedback systems that social media can use to listen in or watch what my eye is focused on. I limit my online time to less than 2 hours a day, and often go several days without it at all.

I do have a media player that uses yt-dlp too download a few youtube channels I like, but with all the ads and whatnot removed. It's as anonymous as I can get to limit what big tech knows I've consumed. Censorship and book burning start by knowing the source of the offending information.

Ive thought about going smartphone free, but I literally need it for a lot of 2fa stuff and travel.

However, all I do on it is, read, read lemmy, and talk to friends. Sometimes play nethack. Im not on toxic social media. So other than being on lemmy a little too much, I dont think its a bad thing to have, minus all the spyware, which I hope to get a pixel or light phone someday to rid that.

What I do think is good and needed more is respecting it. I dont need to be on it when im with friends. I dont need to look at it first thing in the morning. I dont need it when im in public and could sit contently or talk to a neighbor. Usually on weekends I leave it in my sock drawer and check it once or twice (unless i just need it for 2fa)