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Doesn't living in a tent also make you less vulnerable to smartphone and laptop addictions?

I noticed in myself that when I stay in minimal places (camping/jungle hut/tent), I tend to be more connected to the real world and less addicted. More productivity, clearer thought.

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I read a comment on Reddit along the lines of ‘if you doomscroll every day to wake up, you wreck your dopamine levels for the day before even getting out of bed’.

I don’t have enough medical knowledge to assess this claim, but I made a simple rule: don’t touch the phone before getting out of bed! (except to turn off the alarm)

So far, it really seems to work!

This is even more true for kids. Zero screen in the morning.

That’s another huge plus yes! I made a point of never bringing my laptop and turning off data on my phone before going every night.

Hard to quantify how much of a difference this made, but it definitely translated in higher drive and propensity to being present.

That sounds like an unrelated problem to your own addictions.

Arguably a dorm is pretty minimal as well, it’s just a climate controlled room with a bed.

If you have to physically remove yourself from housing to stop using technology negatively, that’s an addiction problem, not a problem with housing.

That's definitely true, but you also see how some settings make it easier to be virtuous than others right?

Also, the success apps like tiktok and instagram does suggest addiction is more the norm than the exception.

Perhaps, but it’s not really a reason to eschew conventional shelter. You’d probably try some smaller changes first (e.g., setting up screen time restrictions, deleting apps, switching to a dumb phone).

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