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> Once you've tried it, you'll never go back.

Whenever I try this, I keep checking if something is waiting for me. For me, it is not as simple as turning off notifications. I also need to train my brain to stop thinking about new messages and that is turning out to be harder than I thought.

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Old habits die hard but they do die. Try keeping your phone out of sight and out of reach for a while.

i keep it in a different room.

i've become accustomed to not checking it.

All of my daily 2fa auth happens through my phone. :'(

Yes, this is infuriating. For the most part I've got 2fa set up to go to a Google Voice number or an email address because of this, but there are random exceptions.

Get a dumb phone and see how magical pre-smartphone era was.

Which one? KaiOS is another google data mining OS. Other OS's on dumbphones are useless. You can't even save notes and sync with cloud (DAVx) or use synced calendar. Which is crucial for my work.

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