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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Contributing to [email protected] and reading books

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Productive: Maps, check the stock market, read non fiction/Wikipedia, pay bills, translate voice or text written in a foreign language, use as a bike computer or GPS tracker, hail a ride/taxi, rent a bike, communicate with people.

Fun: Read books/comics, amateur photography/videography, puzzles, listen to music.

Purposefully left out apps that cause doomscrolling and addiction.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

pay bills

I don't trust the phone browser anymore after I had it crash during a payment. The money was sent, but the token wasn't sent back to the website.
Thankfully we now have instant bank transfers, so the state of the browser doesn't matter.

Anyway, I still prefer to take out the laptop for serious stuff like payments.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Big purchases must happen on big screen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yes, addiction is not fun. Reddit is not fun and neither is using drugs.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

look up gifs of how a human heart beats while your instructor tries their best to imitate it with their hands and a white board

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I'd rather not.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Duolingo.

Call your politicians. Try call5.org.

Maybe the daily puzzle games are productive.?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

[email protected] yeah they're fun

I feel like I've done everything a phone can do at this point

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

you could also use it as a blunt weapon

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yes, I was going to comment that they could smack a Nazi in the face with it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Put it in a tube sock or pillowcase and increase the effectiveness!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Productivity:

  • Habit Maker (Open Source and from the Creator of lemmy)

  • Street Complete (Open Source, Easy Contributing and helping to update OSM-Data)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Turn it off and touch grass.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I'd rather ride past grass.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

All of you who have commented until now - LIARS!

I know all of you dimwits are looking at naked people on your phone. That's your fun thing & then you produce "things" out of your body that you wipe off.

Not saying I don't do it, but you do it too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nah. I'm post menopausal. I don't want to see shit like that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I look at naked people but I don't produce anything. I just appreciate the artistic nudity of my favorite characters.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Audit your pics/videos if you don’t keep up with them and delete the ones you don’t need. I’ve been trying to trim them all down to free up storage space and then eventually back them up locally to a hard drive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Mess with photos and stickers or make little movies with iMovie.