I'm keeping my eyes on Locus: https://github.com/Myzel394/locus

Oh I mean, they certainly never invited us to take their eggs. But their pecks of protest were generally easy to ignore. 😅 The more vicious hens required more creative solutions.

I used to help raise and tend to chickens during my childhood. As adults chickens have an outer layer of stiff feathers on their wings and back which mainly function as protection against moisture and enhance mobility (fluttering, gliding, etc.), but beneath this layer there's a layer of very soft down feathers which offer insulation against the cold. It's best to feel how soft their down feathers are when they're chicks, as their stiffer feathers haven't grown in yet, but also if you spend a lot of time reaching under hens for their eggs you'll find that their undersides still have a lot of softer feathers for nesting purposes.

I was digging through the comments for exactly this, thanks!

I just don't get how not tipping workers is supposed to teach corporations a lesson. They'll just churn through willing bodies all the same.

I've been doing a lot of software interview prep, so much that I haven't done any "real" programming in a minute, which I miss. I don't really have any ongoing side projects at the moment so I've just been coming up with ideas and seeing how far I can scope them out before running into a wall. So far it's been mostly walls.

I've also been working towards getting myself medical coverage so I can get officially diagnosed with ADHD (or whatever I've got going on) and hopefully get on some medication. I've just been really feeling the struggle these days and I know I can't put off learning how to live with the way my brain works any longer, especially through the bleak slog that is the job hunt in 2023.

There's that "just" again. :)

buy and mail checks, balance your checkbook, and go in person to buy things, go to the bank, or get service

It's simply unrealistic to expect your average American to add all of this (and much more) to their routine and expect the benefit of ditching the smartphone to somehow outweigh the additional time and energy investment. Going in-person for anything in an average American city these days is far more of a hassle than it was "back then". This is at least partially due to the fact that our cities are built with cars in mind and not people, but that's a rant for another day.

I'm not sure what can be done on a smartphone that cannot be done on a computer.

Basically any form of two-factor authentication which is becoming increasingly more common and necessary for the average user to access anything from banking to employee services. Sure there are desktop 2FA programs that you can use in certain scenarios, but using these is often bad practice and defeats the purpose of even having 2FA in the first place.

Certain food or delivery services require you to use a mobile app to interact with them. Whether or not these services are essential or not depends entirely on the needs and circumstances of the individual.

I know you mean well but this is kind of a privileged take. Not everyone who wants to disconnect can afford to. It's kind of like how many people can't afford to just not use the internet, without it they will likely lose access to many essential resources.

"Just" not using a smartphone is viable for an increasingly vanishing portion of the population, in the US at least.