I got tired of my I-Leash
My I-Phone was close to giving up the ghost. My primary phone was an I-Phone ProMax 12 that I've had 4+ years. I've dropped it on the pavement a dozen or more times and it has seen much better days.
I finally bit the bullet and selected a replacement, not the newest or greatest but an I-Phone 15 relatively basic phone.
Somewhere in the past two years I've realized I want to be on my phone much less. If I'm going to lay in bed and read I'm more likely to reach for a laptop now, which I installed Linux on a few months back after reading a post from @themarkymark
I use Mint btw. That may change in the future to a more l33t distro but it's serviceable for now.
Back to the phone. As I was setting it up, it occurred to me I could not install X(Twitter), I could just not install Facebook etc. I even deleted the YouTube app that was preinstalled.
Mobile devices are handy, but they also seem to constrain awareness, harm cognition, and diminish meaningful interactions with other people.
When I'm lying I'm on my deathbed, I likely won't regret missing out on doom scrolling through low value content.
Exceptions Engaging with legacy social media has some utility, but it should likely done more deliberately and moderately. I can do that from the laptop or my desktop.
I mainly want my phone to be a phone, occasionally a map, and frequently a display for my heartrate monitor in the gym.
I did install @ecency and the @keychain applications so that I can interact with Hive on the go, if it's needful or productive.
Just tested posting to "Snaps" via the Keychain app on the phone, it was snappy.