u/Acceptable-Point218

Hello and goodbye,
This is kinda a vent but also my experience.

I have had enough of social media, news scaremongering, short form videos, addictive games and apps, constantly been obsessed with my phone and being on it 7+ hours a day.
I have been trying to lower my screen time for over a year with iPhone restrictions… didn’t work, using a dumb phone and a laptop… don’t work was doom scrolling and playing games on the laptop.
Enough is enough. This world we live in where we can go onto a app on our phones or laptop and then in seconds know about some ‘NEW’ news on the other side of the world is amazing but at the same time unnecessary.

To combat this doom scrolling and social media addiction, I have bought myself a Mudita Kompakt and a Boox go 7. Both are e ink and the Boox tablet runs on android so I can get essential apps that I only need.
It’s massively helped I’m not interested in picking up these devices because it’s so boring to use (I’m not affiliated btw with these companies).

Social media I’m deleting it all! Reddit included. Unfortunately Facebook I need due to personal reasons but now that it’s on my e ink device I’m not interested in using it to doom scroll.
I now find myself sat with my family friends and I’m the only one not using a mobile phone, my family don’t understand these decisions I have made but I do and I’m sure you understand too.

I value physical moments over moments on my phone.

This life needs to be lived not watched through a phone. Peace be with you.

Hi I downloaded Olauncher and set it as my main home app, but every time I exit the app it goes back to the native home app. Any ideas what I’m doing wrong? Thanks

So as you may be familiar about the recent hantavirus on the news. Now I have been fearing this since last year because here in the UK we have a 2 field mice that lives in our front and back garden. My family feeds birds but the mice like to eat it also. But as my family go to that feeding area to feed the birds they go near where the mouse goes. My dogs who sleep on my bed because they walk past the garden wall and go near where the mice are (or used to because I’ve been sleeping on the sofa for nearly 6 months because I don’t want to contaminate and put this virus in my bedroom which I deem is the only really totally clean place in my property)
My family don’t care about the mice and the virus but they think the mice are cute and like it.
Our garden wall is 2 meters from the front door. And the mouse is there most of the day it’s very humane now and doesn’t bother when people walk past it. I personally don’t touch the mice or the area but when I come in and out of my door to walk past it I immediately think I’m dirty and have hantavirus on my body. I know it’s wrong but the only way I feel better is to avoid going outside when the mouse is there or taking a shower after seeing the mouse. I don’t even need to touch where the mouse has been but to walk past it and even see it I feel like I may have the virus on my body. I really worry of catching this virus. I have overcome a few obsessions and compulsions in the past without any therapy but this is just too strong for me. Like now I don’t know what’s normal, when it’s hygiene and when it’s ocd. I can’t do Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) with this anxiety because at the end of the day mice like all rodents carry viruses and when you have been exposed to rodents, where rodents have been and there waste. You need to be careful, especially washing hands. So I see some exposures with other stuff like touch a bin and wait then wash your hands or rub a tissue on a bin handle and put it in your pocket and avoid washing hands but even though that’s not my fear id still not do that because it’s important to clean your hands. I’m looking into therapy because im ruining my life and my family’s. My mother has contamination ocd (she says but it’s not a shade as bad as mine).
I have health anxiety also so I think that it links with my biggest fear of suffering in a hospital bed being very sick and dying. I’ve had OCD for 6 years now and it’s at its peak now.

Any advice, support or exposures will help.

I like yourself have bad Contamination OCD. I’m looking into therapy. However I thought that this Reddit would bring advice.
It seems however it’s just for comforting/ reassurance. I understand I also reassurance seek, but I know it’s wrong. Seeking reassurance only makes OCD worse, it’s only temporary relief. It comes back stronger.
Just needed to say this as I care for you all so much but disguising a ocd question as a reassurance question won’t help us.

Stay strong ❤️

I don’t use tech very much nowadays and wondered if this could be used to type on?

Hi so on my mk I side loaded aurora store and it works well except one app what3words. I really need this app otherwise I can’t use this phone. Is it just me or can you get it to work on yours? Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks

I don’t want to download aurora store just WhatsApp and a few more apps apk files. What website do I use that’s safe and compatible. I will be downloading them on my iMac and transferring them through the mudita centre to my phone. Thanks

I’m anxious about the mouse that lives near my front door it lives on the garden wall and comes looking for dropped bird seed. I’m worried about hantavirus, especially now that there has been an outbreak on the news. But I have been since last year. I hate this mouse if it was gone it would take away a lot of anxiety and I could improve my ocd faster with the therapy then.
This mouse needs to go but my family treat it as a pet and won’t let me try and make it go.

This is not just ocd it’s a threat to health it’s a rodent not a pet.
Yes ocd therapy will help but at the same time this needs to go…

Every time I come out the door it’s there like 2 meters away from me and it is so humane it doesn’t get scared. It just stays there.

I’m anxious about the mouse that lives near my front door it lives on the garden wall and comes looking for dropped bird seed. I’m worried about hantavirus, especially now that there has been an outbreak on the news. But I have been since last year. I hate this mouse if it was gone it would take away a lot of anxiety and I could improve my ocd faster with the therapy then.
This mouse needs to go but my family treat it as a pet and won’t let me try and make it go.

This is not just ocd it’s a threat to health it’s a rodent not a pet.
Yes ocd therapy will help but at the same time this needs to go…

Every time I come out the door it’s there like 2 meters away from me and it is so humane it doesn’t get scared. It just stays there.

Anybody here from the UK? How many business days did it take you to receive your mudita kompakt?

So I may be a little different from some one here. I’m not exactly interested in performance, speed, refresh rate and colour.

All I want in a e ink tablet is
• A terrible refresh rate so that all videos are unwatchable
• Black and white screen not colour
•Android so that I can get apps such as kobo, kindle, my regular apps I need and web
• Able to set up Google Family link.
• nothing that breaks the bank, under 250£ .

Thank you ideas would be appreciated

I’m interested in learning Koine Greek is there any free resources or websites that you know of? Thanks