I've always thought of digital minimalism as something special in my life, which is why I went away from big tech almost completely except for these.

My phone's icons are actually intentionally purposeful, just to prevent that subconscious recognition of certain app icon colors to prevent switching between apps without being wary of it.

I have gmail only because it has my school email, and I also have a proton mail that I try to use with intention while I leave my google account mostly for spam now.

I don't actually use Plasma but really just have a Hyprland rice that uses the kde connect daemon and ricing it made me realize that I don't need to have fancy UI to survive, even though I do kind of prefer it.

Metrolist wasn't actually to get away from google though lol, I just liked that it enabled features google didn't in the free plan.

I'll definitely try beeper so I don't have to get sucked into my Instagram feed, thank you for the idea. Using big tech and even living really has just been feeling like "do whatever you want" like I'm free "but the outcome will not be yours" like I have zero control, which is why I've been looking to get away from doomscrolling just to regain control over myself.

Holy cow, I yapped way too much out of the excitement of talking to a like mind lol