Get a mechanical watch, carry a wad of cash. Leave your phone at home. Head out into the world like this at least once a week and enjoy life without any digital bullshit. Thank me later.
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Amen, brotha.
A solid mechanical watch, with perhaps a 60min bezel is really all you need to keep track of everything in life.
Have you found any that you can turn even when hands are sweety? Most dive watches I’ve had are hard to turn without dry hands. For that reason I gravitate toward super compressor watches.
Check out marathon watches. They’re made for special forces and can be gripped while wearing thick gloves in water. Very cool watches.
This one has seen some shit. Trit's about gone, but it works fine.
Beautiful watch. I need to get one for my collection one of these days
Which model is this? Beautiful watch!
That's a GSAR. I believe they made some sterile versions that year, also.
Thank you. 🙏
No prob. Here's all the old tritium stuff I have. The GSAR, 2005 Navigator's, a '90s Luminox, and a Traser Code Blue.
And just for comparison, here's a Seiko Monster that's only been in dim room lighting. These are shot 30s at f/5.6 and ISO 400.
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Beautiful collection. 💙
i don't even bother with that, i know where the sun is
Just be prepared for places that no longer take cash. Also, don’t take hundred dollar bills - lots of places can’t break them. 🙄
I actually love this— many times when I was younger maybe I didnt have the right amount of money or didn’t have a wallet on me. It’s not the end of the world, you just do something else instead. You get off the rails into a more interesting choose your own adventure mentality 🤙
I tell the younger folk this all the time— you know you don’t need your phone to just exist. You can leave the house as you are and you’re fine. You don’t even need an ID on you, technically. Nobody knows what the fuck I’m talking about or why it matters, get looks like I’m a boomer 😂
We share the same mindset
Agreed and much easier to do once the kids are grown and out of the house. So, if you can't get that quiet time at least once a week now, it get's easier.
Ahead of you.
Also, these exist. 
I've got one for my state and one for the country. You never know when you might want to go offline.
I just forget my phone a home.
And carry a revolver instead of a striker fired pistol.
Good reminder. Thanks.
ive been dabbling with doing just this. will be doing more, feels excellent 🤙
Smart watches are gay
fuck the watch. go barefoot, just sun gaze, maybe pull a couple weeds while i'm out there :)
This is the way. Pair of shorts and nothing else. At all.
Butt naked with just a knife between your teeth, thank me later
I hide my ka-bar between my cheeks 🍑
Totally agree
I always do this. The first time I left everything at home before a walk it took me a good 15 min, I was like... Wtf I really don't need to carry anything, am I missing something?
Yes, the rest of us who do this need some cover. 🤣
Cop #1: OMG, that person doesn't have any RF signature!
Cop #2: oh, that's probably just Dr Hax, if we get any calls about him, his address is on the dash
Reference: https://xkcd.com/1105/
I know, it's not all abiut tracking, but also about the distractions, disruptions, an so on. Still, I couldn't resist. 😈
This is most definitely the way. Touch grass.
Or 7 days a week.
Read a physical book. Cook a meal and use a physical recipe book. Light a few candles in the evening instead of turning your lights in. Go spend time with others in person.
Stop using digital maps—buy a physical map, learn the names of roads, and memorize landmarks.
I really like my phone
Mmm, the 80's were good like that, pocketful of coins and a bmx, the possibilities were endless.
Hard to explain the contrast to those who didn’t see it.
At this stage I have lived 50% of my life without having a mobile phone, I navigated across Australia with maps, applied for jobs by mail, wrote essays with a pencil. I value that, the skills and knowledge I gained and the confidence I can still do it.
Do you remember party line land line telephones?
I didn't have that many friends, I spent a lot of time in payphones though.
In the States we had a weird thing called a Party Line which was a marketing way of saying everyone in a neighborhood shared the same outgoing phone line. Youd pick up the phone to make a call, and hear your neighbors talking. you had to wait until they finished to make a call.
Yep
yes i do
Me too
funny, I do this when I go to church.
My Apple Watch about to get the boot!
Usually bounce between solar and mechanical for my watch. Also make sure to have a knife with me.
And for those saying watch the sun, up here in Alaska it's usually either impossible or unreliable.
I like that seiko
Getting mugged for a watch and cash and not having a phone to call 911 doesn’t sound like a good idea.
Then just bring a gun also
Do you expect muggers to take your watch and cash but leave your phone??
That's what the revolver is for.
It's okay he cant steal my seed words. The cash is worthless and losing track of time is not the end of the world, i can get time again if needed
Love this
I’ve been doing this sort of thing for a while but I include the home as well. I call it going “90s”. It’s great for your emotional well being.
What do you mean you include the home? Like, you turn off the internet? I like the idea of “going 90s”
I don’t turn internet off. But I just don’t use it. No streaming services on tv either. Cell phone for phone calls only. Etc.
I used to do something I called "hardcore week" where I would do something similar. But I'll have to try a day of it since I couldn't stick with a week very often. 😃
A week is very hardcore! I usually try a day every week. I also keep my phone in another room when working at home during the day.
Hubs did this today.
Maps
Good advice. I do this routinely. Good practice for needing to cross a border with nothing but the clothes I’m wearing and a string of meaningless words I won’t forget.
hes right. you should try it
A watch is a control mechanism, just look up the sky
It's funny, years back a client of mine had an apple watch a few weeks before they became available, and he told me how he 'was walking through Venice with al gore and was told by al 'I'm gonna get you an apple watch'. And he did.
So after the story as I stood talking to my client trying to explain whatever network problem he was having, his wrist went 'bloop!' he looked at his watch, pressed a button and then looked back at me.
I continued to explain and 30 seconds or so later his wrist went 'Bloop!' again. He looked at his 'watch' and cleared another notification.
A minute later as I continued to explain, again his watch went 'Bloop!' he turned to look at it and then back at me, and I looked him dead in his eyes and said "What is your watch making you to do now?"
This man is a competent and accomplished lawyer and business man, with more money that I'm likely to see in my life, and in less than a day, he'd become slave to a little device that he willingly strapped on to his arm.
"Simple kinda life never did me no harm" -John Denver
Mechanical watches used to get spy gadgets fitted in them.
yep.
but... even better, use do not disturb and mute, reduce number of apps and number of notifications, keep phone in pocket, learn not to whip out the phone unless actually necessary.
😜
This is the smartest watch I own
What is with the mechanical watch, genuine question?
I guess he got ahead of himself there. As long as the watch is not programmable with alarms or internet connected even, I don't see why the difference between mechanical or digital would matter.
I remember 30 years ago we would go camping with kids and not using watches was a thing. For the kids out there: mobile phones were not invented yet.
I just prefer a mechanical watch. More analog soul.
I've got a kinetic watch. It's lasted decades.
Thanks, I appreciate your spirit. I am looking into it. I feel it would be good if there were some technically superior but aesthetically basic options.
Seiko makes great stuff. Or Casio if you want to go digital.
Even quartz watches tell time mechanically. Early quartz watches you could hear. Then they bumped the frequency high enough that only bats can hear it.
It’s just completely analog way to track the time.
I couldn't agree more
Can I smoke weed first?
The simple analogue untrackable life!
Also, use a fountain pen to take notes.
People really don't realize how utterly dependent modern surveillance is on the idea that everybody is carrying a phone — which is always tracked. Their car has a cellular modem in it — which is always tracked. 99% of investigation is one guy and a search box. If you're not low-hanging fruit, you aren't gonna merit the Eye of Sauron of manual, well-resourced, focused team attention—and if you did, you probably planned ahead for it, right? Because it's not a mystery what would get you on Santa's Naughty List.
Anyway, the point is that even in a big city, the phoneless guy in a "covid" mask is going to be invisible to anything less than that exhaustive manual investigation — at least for a few more years. That may go away once they start networking all the cameras and having AI start trying to match up clothing sets moving from camera to camera, butthat capability is hard to hide, so it'll be in the news. And it won't work that well in places with less camera density and, perhaps, for people who wear the most-common outfits (the visual equivalent of a "shared fingerprint").
Remember: Phones are useful, but dangerous. And the people who will still wear covid masks to the beach are helping to normalize facial obscurity—regardless of their intention. Don't be mean to them. Encourage them to wear them everywhere. For passport photos. In police booking photos. At the customs desk. Family portraits! The sky is the limit—let them push the boundaries so that you don't have to.
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"That may go away once they start networking all the cameras and having AI start trying to match up clothing sets moving from camera to camera" ☠️
Be the grey man.
what do I need a watch for?
Or what does it matter if the watch is mechanical or digital for that matter?
To understand how much time you have before dark if you happen to be in the forest & the sun is shaded out.
Or if you're going to be meeting someone at a certain time & don't feel like asking others around you.
but no #nostr sir
Going to integrate this into my life 🤙
I do this every weekend but I also wear a bitcoin ring
leave your 12 words at home
No. Don't keep seed words at your house.
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Seiko SRPE93 Prospex SEA - The Turtle. 😄
Good advice.
Me likey.
#GrapheneOS on a pixel phone is what you want.
But through phone they still know your location, sending signal to the nearest towel
You know what time it is 👻🤙
marin instruments 
beautiful watch. which brand?
Marin instruments
People really don't realize how utterly dependent modern surveillance is on the idea that everybody is carrying a phone — which is always tracked. Their car has a cellular modem in it — which is always tracked. 99% of investigation is one guy and a search box. If you're not low-hanging fruit, you aren't gonna merit the Eye of Sauron of manual, well-resourced, focused team attention—and if you did, you probably planned ahead for it, right? Because it's not a mystery what would get you on Santa's Naughty List.
Anyway, the point is that even in a big city, the phoneless guy in a "covid" mask is going to be invisible to anything less than that exhaustive manual investigation — at least for a few more years. That may go away once they start networking all the cameras and having AI start trying to match up clothing sets moving from camera to camera, butthat capability is hard to hide, so it'll be in the news. And it won't work that well in places with less camera density and, perhaps, for people who wear the most-common outfits (the visual equivalent of a "shared fingerprint").
Remember: Phones are useful, but dangerous. And the people who will still wear covid masks to the beach are helping to normalize facial obscurity—regardless of their intention. Don't be mean to them. Encourage them to wear them everywhere. For passport photos. In police booking photos. At the customs desk. Family portraits! The sky is the limit—let them push the boundaries so that you don't have to.
What if there's emergency something like car accidents. I need to make phone calls for the ambulance to save someone's life, the place I live people won't help, they make situation worst.
We don't know what trouble we get into, do you have alternative for these situations.
Não sei se é o #Snowden de verdade, mas independente disso, gostei bastante do texto. Profilaxia básica com #segurança de dados no geral e #privacidade já garante proteção real contra vigilância passiva, coleta e armazenamento de dados automática. Dificultar isso é fazer mais que a maioria da população, você ainda é um alvo, mas vigilância ativa (dirigida) é mais onerosa, e as precauções especiais ("paranoia extra") não são necessárias para o perfil de risco da maioria.
Não precisa usar OpenBSD, mas uma distribuição #Linux como o Mint é tão amigável ao usuário quanto possível, e diferente do Windows, não vem com spyware e rootkits de fábrica (nome social: "telemetria")
analog car, no GPS, no sensors, NO seat belt alarm