Digital minimalism: a personal experiment in cutting back online dependence
What happened
On October 31, Hacker News featured an author's personal experiment in digital minimalism, an idea that stresses deliberately choosing how you use technology. The author started with social media, cellular connectivity and web use. For social platforms the author switched to Firefly. For the phone, the author kept airplane mode on for 100 days and used wifi only. The experiment was broadly a success, though SMS verification codes and travel caused problems.
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- Hacker News front pageDigital Minimalism
数字极简主义强调主动选择技术使用方式，原文作者以社交媒体、蜂窝连接和网页使用的个人实验探索减少数字依赖。作者改用 Firefly 访问社交平台，并进行了 100 天保持手机飞行模式、仅使用 wifi 的实验，认为体验总体成功，但遇到了短信验证码和出行不便。
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