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"Digital Detox" isn't a clearly defined term, but usually does not mean no internet use long-term. And e.g. limiting access to social media or 24/7 news is not necessarily a bad idea in the year of "doomscrolling".

Only because it’s hard to buy new ones with the bookstore closed.

If you were online you could order anything you want.

In those dark times before the internet, we searched for the limit to how many books one could read in a lifetime.

We never found it.

thousands of generations of humans existed without it before you.

A lot of that boredom lead to exploratory missions, wiping out 80%+ of the local populations with the disease and war they brought...

That’s an interesting take...