dummy phone
Jun. 11th, 2025 12:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Like many people feel (if my youtube algo is to be trusted) I've been feeling the need to just, disconnect a little bit from apps. I want to get back into collecting my own digital library of music and having physical copies of movies and shows and music because of how we don't really own anything when beholden to streaming services (my shows and music just disappearing and becoming inaccessible qAq games too!!) It's just so shitty!
Not to mention my brain and attention is absolutely and completely fried and cooked. nothing but tempura in there
Coming back to dreamwidth after so so so so so so so long is a part of this feeling of needing to disconnect, the pace here is a lot slower for me compared to twitter (which i had to kill! i did get a bluesky tho) so i feel like i'm having a break from the constant stream.
So, another step I have taken is acquiring a dumb phone. I've also been trying to keep a pocket book with me cuz this baby don't got no notes app!

I've had her for a day and it's been pretty nice already, i look forward to using her as an mp3 player too!
I can't completely ditch my smartphone, because i have no sense of direction and i still have to go through and add my contacts, but only having access to all that shit when i have wifi has helped keep me off it when i'm at work lol
i'm so lucky that the offline google maps seems to work, there was a big closure on a freeway on my way to work and i defs would have gotten lost if i couldn't use it!!
Baby steps are still steps.
I'll go into it more later, i gotta make sure i get to work okay! (took me a while to figure out how to upload the image lmaooo)
Pls be clear roads today! NO CLOSURE NO DETOURS QvQ
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Date: 2025-06-11 03:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-06-14 09:32 am (UTC)thank you! ooh i've never used last.fm before but i've given it a try (already found some bangers i've never heard before... so thanks for mentioning it! surely it won't become a problem :3) even if it's just a part time thing, i hope the phone has helped! (ye i was partially influenced by it's cuteness :3)
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Date: 2025-06-11 04:01 am (UTC)My sister would love your cellphone's wallpaper.
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Date: 2025-06-11 12:01 pm (UTC)ehehh thank you! ye i'm a little obsessed with kuromi. seeing her on merch makes it really hard for me to resist buying it >o<;;