Petrarchive – i wanna save my young and malleable 21 year old brain

9F hell yeah

I feel like a big part of what gets you sucked in are the recommendation algorithms. For something like youtube what would work best is probably straight up deleting your account (not just logging out because of the temptation of logging back in) and never creating a new one. You'll only be fed the standard slop which becomes unappealing real fast.

Youtube used to be the one platform I had the most problems with too. I never had it on my phone but on my desktop it would be open all the time. What fixed it for me was deleting my account and installing a bunch of browser addons (Clickbait remover, sponsorblock and Unhook (using this to block everything except video titles), using adblock to block shorts from search results). This way youtube is still available, but I can only see things I deliberately search for. You quickly realize there's not much you actually want to see when it doesn't get fed to you, but you'll still be able to watch things when you need to as opposed to fully blocking it which would always result into relapsing when I needed to unblock it for a bit.

>>11753
Thanks anon, i hope i make it this one.

Just run `man 1` like it says

Middle click three times and the magic bunny will appear and save ur soul

yes, I plan on running over my phone after i graduate. I need it right now for university communications and to get through uni with sanity intact. afterwards I will buy a dumbphone that lets me call people but that's it. you have to physically destroy the phone there's no other way. it's not like you can factory reset and give it to someone cause that data can easily be extracted and if you hide it somewhere you're gonna cave in sometime and dig it out like people who are trying to quit vapes do even when they throw it in the trash.

also I will have to get a job where smartphone isn't a requisite, so I'll likely be poor but it's a small price for saving my soul.

>it's not like you can factory reset and give it to someone cause that data can easily be extracted

Normies have the weirdest ideas about technology, I guess pointless e-waste is better in your mind than learning how to properly wipe a device (a 10 minute lookup)

Why would someone even want to find any potential leftover data on your phone, are you a nation-state target? Absolutely not. Get over yourself

1. Set site/app blocks in Screen Time
2. Have a friend change the Screen Time password so you don’t know it
3. Install the algorithm feed blocker I’m working on onto ur computer

Problem solved

>>11760
Interesting combination of paranoia and technological illiteracy.
Phones always encrypt all user data now, and have done so for a while, so unencrypted data never touches the drive. When you erase your phone, the encryption key is destroyed and the data is rendered permanently inaccessible.

>>11768
no data is permanently inaccessible today. think me conspiratorial all you want.

>>11762
did it occur to you that some of us might live in a country that goes after citizens. but no, someone who is not from a developed country cannot be in rs spaces! that's just impossible! inconceivable!

If you need to physically restrain yourself from the phone then you’re already NGMI

>>11770
Are you referring to quantum computers being able to brute-force very quickly? That will probably never happen.

>>11771

Knew someone who quit smoking by buying a pack that they carried around with them everywhere just to flex. Like “I’m never going to smoke this pack” you know. That’s cool and one way to force behavior out of yourself, but most people should just go on the patch. Same with site blockers/Brick/whatever

If you're already on this site at 21, you're online online fr

I got rid of all social media around 2012. And I dont use sites that have an algorithmic live feed. There is no secret. Comparing my life to people who have tech in their lives, I just seem to have more time and patient engagement with reality. I read way more than they do. I also chitchat far more than anyone I know. It actually seems to anger some people, so either I am interrupting their screen time or I'm just bad at talking.

The biggest challenge in being screen/digital minimalist, is that it is difficult alone. Ideally, you would want approx. 30% of your local population to do the same, so larger changes and realignments in your community occur that would support screen-free livin'.

I do not think that there is a magic that comes with it. It won't solve all your life's problems or anything like that. Ideally, a person needs to use the 'net, but I can understand how it can become overwhelming.

>>12116

The network effects are a lot easier now due to the breakdown in social networks. Instagram is primarily a content farm now, not so much a place where people post and comment on each-others' posts. For the first time in a decade it is socially harmless to be offline

>>12124
>For the first time in a decade it is socially harmless to be offline
That is great to hear. I have been waiting for the great Internet Depopulation, where people return back to reality, and use the internet sparingly for utility purposes, and a bit of fun.