Every other launcher on F-droid is one of these "minimalist" launchers. And they're completely useless insofar as your phone ceases to be boring and minimalist as soon as you open an app. We're addicted to apps not home screens.

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I’ve found for me cutting off/minimalising the constant stream of new screamy content and advertising does a lot to lessen the addiction.

Started by deleting social media (because fuck fb/yt/x/insta/… bend the knee= byebye).

The hardest was youtube but not impossible. Switch to a frontend only and copy only the channels you really care about. Then after a while you’ll feel like it’s just not worth it. It’s the finely tuned algorithms that keep you coming back. Fuck em. We’re not cattle.

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

I completely agree.

[–] morto@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One thing that really works to make apps less interesting sensorially is to turn the screen grayscale. For anyone who feels addicted to their phones, you can set this in the accessibility settings in android

[–] fakasad68@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Grayscale never helped for me for some reason, maybe I am too addicted

[–] morto@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Sad to hear that. Grayscale helped me a lot, both on mobile and desktop. It's alsoimportant to try finding interesting things like hobbies, to fill the gap left by the phone, or we end up coming back to it, because nothing else seems interesting. I struggled a lot before finding a tech usage time that I feel like not harmuf to me, and even so, I have to be constantly observing if I'm not becoming addicted again