What are some good uses for smart phones?
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Map your local area.
Use StreetComplete or SCEE to fix parts of OpenStreetMap data in your area. Fun to do when walking around areas you know.
Or use a higher level editor to add missing paths, services and buildings.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I agree.
That app sadly eats battery like no other I have. So the walk isn't too long.The higher level editor: https://f-droid.org/packages/de.blau.android/
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Bluetooth earbuds, if you can use an app you can answer a call. Might need that mute button though
But then you have to deal with connectivity issues every time your butthole goes to another room.
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We have these amazing little computers in our hands. What are some beneficial things we can do with them? Websites, apps, tinkering... anything you can think of or things you already do. I'm tired of doom scrolling.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Play a compilation of song covers at exactly 135 BPM so I can do my treadmill without losing my center or my step.
Work the laundry machines, and set a separate timer because the app notifications are unreliable.
Text to check that my kids are alive and assure them that I and their dad are also not dead today.
Order grocery delivery.
Listen to birds and learn their names (Merlin)
Be part of the earthquake alert system (MyShake)
Wordle/ Quordle/ Waffle
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Bluetooth earbuds, if you can use an app you can answer a call. Might need that mute button though
Easy. Mute is just a slight turn and one muscle contraction.
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We have these amazing little computers in our hands. What are some beneficial things we can do with them? Websites, apps, tinkering... anything you can think of or things you already do. I'm tired of doom scrolling.
Make phone calls.
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Easy. Mute is just a slight turn and one muscle contraction.
My phone turns on the flash light if you shame it intentionally. You know, the ole twerk for light
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I agree.
That app sadly eats battery like no other I have. So the walk isn't too long.The higher level editor: https://f-droid.org/packages/de.blau.android/
wrote on last edited by [email protected]StreetComplete? I have 47 minutes running time with 5% battery use now, I think it's okay
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Theyre essentially the swiss army knife of tools:
- Flashlight
- Camera
- Level
- Calculator
- Phone
- Flashlight
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We have these amazing little computers in our hands. What are some beneficial things we can do with them? Websites, apps, tinkering... anything you can think of or things you already do. I'm tired of doom scrolling.
I love emulating old Gameboy games on my phone. It can play things all the way up to Switch, but there's sort of a nice mix of nostalgia and simplicity to just go monotone. No micro transactions, no server connecting, nothing. Just me and the bits.
I guess that's not terribly beneficial, unless you count my mental health.
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Was that the fork of OSM a couple months ago? Do they have gravity yet?
Fork of Organic maps, both are still OSM
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We have these amazing little computers in our hands. What are some beneficial things we can do with them? Websites, apps, tinkering... anything you can think of or things you already do. I'm tired of doom scrolling.
Mine's pretty great at reading a 1400-page manual for an 8-bit system. Whether or not my habit of reading a 1400-page manual for an 8-bit system is actually beneficial is up for debate.
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Play a compilation of song covers at exactly 135 BPM so I can do my treadmill without losing my center or my step.
Work the laundry machines, and set a separate timer because the app notifications are unreliable.
Text to check that my kids are alive and assure them that I and their dad are also not dead today.
Order grocery delivery.
Listen to birds and learn their names (Merlin)
Be part of the earthquake alert system (MyShake)
Wordle/ Quordle/ Waffle
You're only missing Octordle!
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I love emulating old Gameboy games on my phone. It can play things all the way up to Switch, but there's sort of a nice mix of nostalgia and simplicity to just go monotone. No micro transactions, no server connecting, nothing. Just me and the bits.
I guess that's not terribly beneficial, unless you count my mental health.
Where do you get the games from. I have a switch and an old gameboy carriage but I’m too out of it to bridge that gap
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We have these amazing little computers in our hands. What are some beneficial things we can do with them? Websites, apps, tinkering... anything you can think of or things you already do. I'm tired of doom scrolling.
i have a drawer which would otherwise have been empty, but thankfully i have a nexus 6p, a pixel 2, an lg q6, some lenovo phablet, and a galaxy note 5 to use up that space.
they also do make mighty fine paperweights if one is needed in a pinch.
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We have these amazing little computers in our hands. What are some beneficial things we can do with them? Websites, apps, tinkering... anything you can think of or things you already do. I'm tired of doom scrolling.
A unified remote\console for displays, ACs, PCs and whatever
On-hand manuals and checklists/
Podcasts\books player
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Anything's a dildo if your brave enough. Plus, it vibrates!
There's no reception inside a person though, so you can't call the phone to make it vibrate.
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i have a drawer which would otherwise have been empty, but thankfully i have a nexus 6p, a pixel 2, an lg q6, some lenovo phablet, and a galaxy note 5 to use up that space.
they also do make mighty fine paperweights if one is needed in a pinch.
Too bad you don't also have a note 7. Having it double as a bomb is a good feature.
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Rejecting calls
Forgetting to reply to messages
Ignoring emails
Writing comments then deleting the text without posting
Unlocking your device only to immediately forget why you needed to check it.
Don't forget the good ol' classics:
- Forgetting to turn off airplane mode after good night sleep 'till lunch time.
- Letting the battery die during the day without proper means to recharge.
- Constantly fighting with backlight intensity, because its regulating sensor is PoS.
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We have these amazing little computers in our hands. What are some beneficial things we can do with them? Websites, apps, tinkering... anything you can think of or things you already do. I'm tired of doom scrolling.
If you have an extra wifi router as well, secured network-security cameras. Lots of programs out there to do just that (been looking at a few and I'm not 100% on a perfect recommendation till I set something up myself).
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I think you can get dildos that can be controlled by an app.
Fun Fact: someone turned a drone company into a dildo factory and kept the boards so their dildos also have things like a gyroscape even if it cant be used really
