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GeorgeClensy/Escape-Launcher: A minimalist android launcher to help you quit your phone addiction (github.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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[–] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (11 children)

Plenty of launches like this on F-Droid.

Edit: These minimalist launchers force you to spend more time on your phone looking through the app drawer for the app you want. I prefer a launcher that lets me open an app faster, thereby spending less time on my phone.

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  • [+] 26 points 10 months ago (10 children)
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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    One thing that really works to make apps less interesting sensorially is to turn the screen grayscale. For anyone who feels addicted to their phones, you can set this in the accessibility settings in android

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Grayscale never helped for me for some reason, maybe I am too addicted

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Sad to hear that. Grayscale helped me a lot, both on mobile and desktop. It's alsoimportant to try finding interesting things like hobbies, to fill the gap left by the phone, or we end up coming back to it, because nothing else seems interesting. I struggled a lot before finding a tech usage time that I feel like not harmuf to me, and even so, I have to be constantly observing if I'm not becoming addicted again

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    i sometimes wonder if i lucked out getting addicted to laptops instead of phones.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

    they tend to be less of an addiction because we usually don't keep them turned on all the time. There's a time for turning off and stopping for the day, unlike phones, that we tend to use at any moment

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    they tend to be less of an addiction because we usually don’t keep them turned on all the time.

    i never shut mine off.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    congrats, you're officially an outlier lol

    jokes aside, do you fin it do be less detrimental than phone addiction?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    i don't understand the phone addiction, so i don't think i'm qualified to answer that; but i can say that i notice that people speak and behave differently if they rely more heavily on their phones than i do.

    and i also suppose that the fact that i don't bring my laptop everywhere with me and that the only time i use my phone at home is for phone conversations make sense.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago*

    I’ve found for me cutting off/minimalising the constant stream of new screamy content and advertising does a lot to lessen the addiction.

    Started by deleting social media (because fuck fb/yt/x/insta/… bend the knee= byebye).

    The hardest was youtube but not impossible. Switch to a frontend only and copy only the channels you really care about. Then after a while you’ll feel like it’s just not worth it. It’s the finely tuned algorithms that keep you coming back. Fuck em. We’re not cattle.

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