Nice tool. And all people having the same look, the surrounding looking so tiresome noble and reality distorted... I better recommend to see a taylor. Those people simply look at you, some time later you got a perfect fit shirt. Plus, not all people looking like models, it would be refreshing to see other people in advertisments.

He can team up with a hw-manufacturer and together they develop the machine that was needed for so long. Why not? I once worked for Tuxedo, the beginning of that company was the question if they sell hardware to the books as well?

It’s a huge investment of resources. Remember Apple failed so many times to make a successor to MacOS classic they had to let Steve Jobs take over Apple. And Tuxedo didn’t make an OS from scratch.

I would not give much shit about maxell being the producer or designer of that stuff. Its a licends product, nothing more. I doubt its quality.

Apply to a phone company. The stolen phone logs into the next base transceiver station and the provider can look up when and where that was. You as a consumer dont get access to such data.

Then just read a book or magazine. Or just take that boring time, its life that is not always funny, entertaining and colorful. Most people have the problem of being under pressure to spend even their free time productive. But for whom? Boredom is healthy, spinning down your engine from constantly reving up at the street lights in life. When i commute to work, i got an old Walkman, ancient cassette player with me, listening to an entire album of music where i cant hear the phone ringing, no notification popping up and letting me get distracted from listening to people that spent years of work to create an album of fantastic music.

> read a book or magazine

Assuming that reading a physical book/printed magazine is inherently better than using your phone in the same situation is just a kind of snobbiness.

Someone in those photos could have been watching a veritasium video, or studying their college notes on their phone. Someone in the earlier years with a book could have been reading Mills and Boone.

But either way, who cares? Why are we judging what people do to pass a few minutes of their day in an inherently boring place like the subway?

As to the value of boredom, sure. But environment matters too. I think there's very little value to boredom on a subway. If you want to make a personal choice to be bored on the subway, go for it. But I don't see any valid reason to judge other people for choosing otherwise.

It’s not snobbiness. We have a mountain of literature out now showing how detrimental smartphone usage is to the human mind. Reading has no such drawbacks.

Been there, done that. Boring time in subway is totally not worth it, if you want to relax, take a walk, ideally next to the river.

As for reading a book or a magazine - this only works for the most common topics. The internet brought up significantly more interesting things - can you remeber any printed publication that was as good as danluu's essays for example?

I switch of my phone every evening after 20:00 hrs. Nobody has to disturb me except my moms house is on fire. My landline number is known around relatives etc. I never answered or reacted that late on the same day. Its my fucking free time, nothing can be so important i have to give up that personal time. Unluckily i have to use my own personal phone for my job. I receive emails and texts when my teamleader is working late. Thats annoying. A couple of years ago my company handed me a work cell phone, but those days are long gone. When i commute to work, early in the morning, i look outside the window of the tram, look at the sun rising or whats going on on the streets. The entire wagon is just staring on senseless Whatsapps, texts or videos. I dont get why the people dont wanna be bothered that early in the morning and making them ready for work or just enjoy a beautiful sunrise. You cant make friends with them anymore, they dont look around, dont start chatting with the person next to them. Zombies they are. If all those people would hold a bottle of beer and sip on it frequently, we would call them alcoholics and addicts. And those people are addicts, needing treatment. Urgently. But the common reception of phone users is that they are in touch with someone and the social tradegy is hidden behind the manner of use of such devices. One does not see if the user is watching stupid videos or is caught in a bubble. But holding a bottle of beer will bring the people to contempting the blue collar worker after a long working day, talking to real people, earning his wage and returning to his real existing family that evening. What i ask myself the entire time is, how are kids raised by parents working for or owning cellphone providers and manufacturers? What do such people tell their kids how or not to use social media? Do they raise them ascetic when it comes to gadgets? Tell them: Daddy is going to work, selling stuff for stupid people?

Everyone has their faces buried in their phones and then claims to have social anxiety, or that everyone is mean so they don't interact.

Humans do best when we are faced with uncomfortable situations on a regular basis; this is how we grow. Nowadays everyone can throw in an earbud and ignore the rest of the world.

Being bored is a good thing. Having nothing to do encourages creativity and creation. Being alone with your thoughts is a good thing to be able to do. Having a constant soundtrack, audiobook or podcast in your head is not good.

We do this to ourselves. Then we complain about it.

French love wine, so they drink it even during the day and that making them pee. But removing public restrooms was a huge mistake. I am glad finding one in my country, if not, i ask a business or cafe to use theirs. Some deny it completely, others charge you with 50 ct. i gladly pay. Sometimes the problem with public restrooms is the vandalism. You cant give some people something new,clean. They ruin it in no time. Its a pity, but thats the problem of their parents raising them.

As a patient with depression and alcohol dependence, i dont want an artificial treatment. Its important to leave the house, sit in front of a real human and do some chatting as my former therapist once did. A human therapist will smell the relapse from yesterday and can interpret your facial expression. Many people go into social retraction, dont leave the house, order food instead of go shopping, receive sunlight etc. Its important to take part in the normal social life as much as one can.

When beeing unemployed for some months, i got up every morning as if i had to go to work. I cleande my apartment, did some paperwork and joined a social welfare project where poeple can maintain a structure. That was working in a cafe or doing garden work. I received free coffee for that and met some people i sometimes meet. The worst thing is to stay in a bubble of netflix series, social networks and rotting away. I have suffered depression but i forced myself out of it by that.