Hacker News Reader

Comment by xen_relay | Hacker News Reader

Lovely! I am all for an offline day in the year where everybody does what you described.

I forget where, but there was a restaurant who locked all phones in a box at your table and if you made it to the end without opening it the table got a free cookie.

That should just be every restaurant, unless you're eating alone. It's just disrespectful otherwise.

(And even alone there's a pretty strong case to be made that you should pay attention to the actual food.)

Plenty of these experiences can be found without disconnecting the electricity for multiple countries. Personally, I find musical events of all sorts are amazing for this, and completely AI free should you chose the right events :)

This weekend Liquicity came to Barcelona (for the first time?) and being with other strangers, dancing all night long, to other humans playing us music and singing and sometimes fucking up, is just an experience out of this world, and these sort of events are all around us, almost every week or at least every month. If not in your country, probably in your neighboring country, just a bus/train ride away.

You just need to take the steps and get out of your house, the human connections are out there and ready to be grabbed by the ones who dare and persist :)

This is so true. It can even just be regular club nights at good clubs. Ever been to Berghain? (Me neither)

Some clubs around here sometimes run whole-weekend parties that attract thousands of people, those are fun.

The problem with live concerts is that a substantial number of people are holding up their smartphones in front of them and experiencing it through the screen.

As long as you don't, what's the problem? Let them miss it, find a new location you see better, then enjoy :)

Great way of preventing this is going to smaller events, tend to be a lot better in most ways.

That might work at concerts, but it still sort of irks me. Museums, however, have become the worst for this. People stepping in front of me holding their phone in front of my face while I'm looking at the thing just so they can get a picture and wander off without ever really looking. If you want a picture of the art, go to the gift shop

TOOL concerts (minus ones at music festivals) typically restrict phone usage for this exact reason.

Maynard lets everyone record the last song and 99% of people respect the request for no phones. It's not even disrespectful for the band, or yourself, its rude to the person behind you.

I remember going to Coachella every year from 2005-2010 and it was a great experience. I went in 2017(?) once after that and it seemed like literally everyone had their phones up filming during the sets. It was a night and day difference. Even the EDM tents were people just filming which also had a chilling effect on how crazy people were getting.

Large electronic music events always been like that in my mind, attend the events with less than 1000 attendees and you'll find a completely different vibe. Also, Cochaella is American, maybe try something European next time, I've never been to any North American parties, but judging from what I could see in the past, and even today, they sure look a lot more commercialized than the same-sized events in Europe, and people seem to be interested in something else than dancing their ass off with strangers.

> they sure look a lot more commercialized

Same here. Just looking into going to Coachella or Burning Man seems like so much work. I'll take a summer festival in Spain, Germany or Netherlands instead.

Finally, a use case for smart glasses!

(Very much /s in case it wasn't clear.)

Why only day in a year? It can be offline Friday and even offline hours of the day, like 17-20 hours of the day are no screen hours

Let's do it today

one day a year? it should be every week :)

You just invented the Sabbath.

Now we can spend the rest of our days arguing over whether it should be on Saturday or Sunday!

Let’s do both?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com