I agree, over the last week I've left my phone in my bedroom most of the day, removed my apps like brave, telegram and WhatsApp from the home screen. Just the phone, calculator and signal.

So much better, now the added step of opening an app drawer and looking for an app or searching allows me to disengage with all the constant reading.

I've subscribed to a few newsletters and leave to until the end of the day before bed or schedule some time and leave them unread.

Internet is a great tool, as long as it doesn't takeover.

Why remove telegram but keep signal? Just curious.

Telegram is where I speak to a few close friends (groups - plenty of gifs) and my developers and VAs are on it who I talk to daily.

Not many people use SMS these days (not within my circle anyway) and anything that comes through SMS is crucial I.e my CRM goes down or there's a bug I get an SMS, which is fine.

Also, I turn all notifications off on my mobile. This puts the powers back in my hands.

Edit, notifications for SMS and phone are on, everything else, off.

Could you share the name?

Isaac Arthur / SFIA

Thank you!

I'd also suggest Baconreader premium.

Its fast and lightweight. A superb third party reddit client.

The second order effects are catastrophic too.

Think of all the companies that built their entire business model around helping airbnb owners manage their bookings / rental

For examples,hostmaker, which was heavily advertising in London (transport mainly) has gone bankrupt (1). They raised ~24M (2)

(1) https://hostmaker.com/gb/london/ (2) https://angel.co/company/hostmaker/funding

Do you think we should also start donating to them?

Not at all, just adding to the fact that 1) hosts were leveraged and are hurting. 2) entire companies are going bankrupt because their model is based mainly on airbnb demand.

I suspect that a lot of people jumped on the airbnb hype train and thought they could be a landlord of multiple properties and probably got leveraged.

Now they're in trouble as their income dries up.

> Now they're in trouble as their income dries up.

Good.

Serves them right for taking a risk.

It serves them right for driving up rents and housing costs in their cities, which contributes to homelessness.

It's a watered down version of the same schadenfreude people felt when the guys that hoarded warehouses full of N95 masks got burned. They made a large investment and took a risk, but their speculation was at the expense of the wider community, so they shouldn't be surprised when the community had no pity on them when their investment didn't work out.

Darwinism at it's finest.

This tends to happen when you overleverage on a risky asset. Good, housing prices in many markets need a sharp correction for affordability

They can always sell their buildings, meh.

Perhaps poster has read news coverage.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-bargain-with-the-devilbill-co...

I thought it might’ve been this quote from the original article:

> Airbnb has created a mechanism in which you can....donate money to landlords....many of whom have overextended themselves by leveraging multiple properties

It’s a big leap to make but I can see how that would influence their theory.

Try using fenix, it's a fantastic mobile twitter client.

Byte.co waiting for adoption on the sidelines.

There are a bunch of TikTok wannabes (Byte, Dubsmash, or the various attempts by Facebook), none that I've seen are as fluid or addictive. TikTok's ability to navigate around with a bunch of responsive swipe gestures and keep showing things that might be interesting is miles ahead of the competition. The fluidity is very dependent on a good internet connection.

I agree with this.

I used to play condition zero (counter strike) when I was 11-12 at the same time learning frontpage and photoshop. I used to switch between them when I got tired of one.

My brother who's 14 now, is totally addicted to CSGO and the skins / box system is totally ruining the game IMO, one streamer buys a skin and all of a sudden its on fire. Gameplay is almost second now.

I've heard of people committing suicide when valve locks accounts of high value.

I never really got into half life, after cracking halo on pc with a keygen (my first every multiplayer online) and playing one game, I was hooked. But never to the peripheral stuff. Just the game itself.

All PR is good PR.