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A Day Without the iPhone

Well, half a day, really.

[Yesterday, I wrote][1] about how I took a week off of wearing my Apple Watch, to see what it would be like to pry myself away from the technology that rules my life. While I was writing that, I had the idea to toss …

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A Week Without the Apple Watch

After closing my rings every day for over 200 days, I stuck my Apple Watch in a drawer for a week, to see if I'd be happier without it running my life.

I've been wearing it again for a few days now, and... I think I'm keeping it.

It's occurred …

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Aaron Parecki's Home Automation Masterpost

IndieWeb supernerd Aaron shared this post on Micro.blog the other day, and, having just bought Hue bulbs, I definitely want to dig into this. He has a focus on doing home automation while staying off "the cloud", which is totally my jam.

(via @aaronpk on Micro.blog)

(...interesting how he does permalinks to status posts like that! 🤔)