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I'm lucky (?) to live somewhere where 2G isn't going to be turned off any time soon, due to legacy support requirements. Otherwise, I'd have to get one of Nokia's newer "dumb smartphone" devices.

The hardware and software stacks of all of the components of a smartphone are at the pinnacle of modern engineering, requiring an uncountable number of engineers and consumers to maintain a mind-boggling supply chain.

Of course there's a price for this.

I gave up and got a Nokia 105.

I thought it was related to a discussion on HN last week about an article that discussed the unreported and untracked levels of benzene in hand sanitiser, after regulations were eased during Covid.

Will Lemmy ever progress beyond discussions about federation?

>I need some time each day to relax, which involves passive content consumption.

"Passive content consumption" is a very recent phenomenon which doesn't allow our brains to relax and process information. It merely maintains the state of over-stimulation.

You need it a lot less than you think! Go and do something else, like stare out of your window, or sharpen your kitchen knives, or fix your todo list.

>replacing it with another social network is not the solution

100% this. Find something better to do! And "lurking" is not it.

Don't lurk! It wastes nearly as much time and mental energy as being an active participant. It took me ages to break my Reddit lurking habit, long after I'd deleted my account.

If this is a side-affect of just the COV2 spike protein bonding (as the article seems to suggest), then we'd better hope that the mRNA from the various Covid vaccines doesn't make it to the brain after injection.

I have the opposite experience. If I'm looking for some technical information (is this MTB suspension part compatible with this fork, or what's the charging profile for this particular battery chemistry, or how do I do x in new programming language y), and I end up on Reddit, I am 99% certain I'll find some vague but useless answer.