cgoecknerwald

If you don't mine me asking, what do you use an Alexa in every room of the house for?

Are there any online communities you can recommend?

If you get your news from websites, rather than apps, then there's nothing to uninstall unless you want to uninstall the internet.

Personally, I mapped addictive sites like reddit to 0.0.0.0 in the hostfile, so I could have just the right amount of internet.

Anecdotally, the news cycle has been the hardest (internet) addiction for me to break.

I can justify deleting social media (Facebook, Reddit) because 95% of my use of it is garbage. But the news is useful, engaging. It's "entertainment with a higher purpose". Can I really justify not reading the NYTimes at all because I just "read too much"? (I was reading the news from various sites for 3 or 4 hours a day.) In the end, I decided that yes, I had to block news sites, because it was a ridiculous use of my time for a software engineer.

On the other hand, I know of no one else in my life who's had this problem.

HackerNews also seems to be designed to be less addicting and immediately rewarding, don't you think? It's more geared towards technical deep reads than BBC or something similar.

I agree. And, if you have a phone that is too "smart", you can always root it to edit what is easily available to you.

I agree. Mobile internet is a double-edged sword: super useful, super distracting / addicting. Several years ago, I rooted my android to add sites such as reddit and nytimes (news junkie) to map to 0.0.0.0 in the hostfile, effectively blocking them. Then, I removed the file navigator (ES File Explorer).

I have found this sufficient.

To add on to other commenters: Uber/Lyft are services, not entertainment or distraction. I don't know anybody who "zones out" of life by ordering cars.

Disclaimer: recently signed up for lightphone 2 pre-order. Personally, I just super like the minimalist e-ink display and I hope it will help me disconnect from the news cycle.

Eh. For many young people, this IS the "real world". These are their experiences. It's not productive to discount so many other people's realities.

To add, the same author also wrote "McMansions 101 Revisited: Aesthetics Aside, Why McMansions Are Bad Architecture" to provide "objective list of reasons why McMansions are bad architecture that ignores aesthetics." [1]

[1] http://mcmansionhell.com/post/150597521816/mcmansions-101-re...

LastPass works for multiple devices, including mobile - you can sync to 1 LastPass account, too.

Personally, I use LastPass across browsers in multiple desktop accounts and my mobile browser, with no issue. You create a LastPass account, presumably with a very secure password, that you can log into elsewhere.

As for the password strategy, I imagine you could be vulnerable if any two important accounts - say, email and bank - both used the same password. Are you confident this is not the case?

I assume certain emails associate with certain types of accounts, which could flaw your strategy. If you're able to remember ~15 different passwords with random emails, congrats on your stellar memory!

The writing style seems to be unnecessarily complex, and, in my mind, dilutes and obscures the message of this piece.