i dropped my iphone nearly a week ago, busted the screen just enough that it no longer registers touches. so i swapped the sim into a flip phone and have been living an offline life.

lemme tell you what, it's a pretty sick life. i'm slowly losing the sense of "i'm bored for 2 seconds, lemme look at my phone" which has been the bane of my adhd-riddled existence for 15 years.

the flip phone uses KaiOS which is based on the firefox os lol, so it has no good apps and runs like shit, but honestly, having more friction means that i can't/won't load it up with a bunch of stuff. all i do is text my wife and make calls to places, which is ideal.

the biggest loss is not having on-the-go access to music, audio books, and podcasts, which i use when watching my kids play outside or doing housework. i was in the middle of multiple books and lightly behind on my episodes, so now i'm very behind lol. i also miss doing knotwords every day, which was up to a 553 day streak, and zachtronics solitaire while pooping. and not having a nice camera means i now don't have lots of cute pics of my kids.

but if i can figure out a permanent solution for audio (music, books, podcasts), then i don't think i'll ever go back.

all i gotta do now is move my ~20 MFA tokens from the phone to some other system on my laptop. 😮‍💨