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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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.
Did this for a month.
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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don't enter/net? HODL p2p
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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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Check out marathon watches. They’re made for special forces and can be gripped while wearing thick gloves in water. Very cool watches.
And carry a revolver instead of a striker fired pistol.
arm up/check the 6
Good reminder. Thanks.
Smart watches are gay
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: 
xkcd
License Plate
I know, it's not all abiut tracking, but also about the distractions, disruptions, an so on. Still, I couldn't resist. 😈
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.
it's literally a creepy lurker
This one has seen some shit. Trit's about gone, but it works fine.
I thought the trit had a pretty long life, how long have you had it?
funny, I do this when I go to church.
Do you remember party line land line telephones?
I didn't have that many friends, I spent a lot of time in payphones though.
Yep
My Apple Watch about to get the boot!
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.
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.
And for those saying watch the sun, up here in Alaska it's usually either impossible or unreliable.
I like that seiko
Beautiful watch. I need to get one for my collection one of these days
We never had that here, only in the real remote areas.
my parents used a party line in Southern Cal Edison employee camps up & down San Joaquin river, hydroelectric generation. Most were gated communities & well cared for with company incentives.
Getting mugged for a watch and cash and not having a phone to call 911 doesn’t sound like a good idea.
remote
Then just bring a gun also
Made in 2006 and I got it in 2007, so it's been glowing for a minute.
Love this
yes i do
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.
Hubs did this today.
Maps
I hide my ka-bar between my cheeks 🍑
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
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.
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
That's great advice brutha!!!
GM - digital all the way
Mechanical watches used to get spy gadgets fitted in them.
Carry a pocket knife and taser just in case 😎
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.
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This is the smartest watch I own
What is with the mechanical watch, genuine question?
I couldn't agree more
Cash as in the fiat kind?
What is “cash” and why is Wad carrying it?😅
Yeah. What other kind is there?
Haven’t you heard of ecash bro??
ops unironically
Do you expect muggers to take your watch and cash but leave your phone??
This is the way. Pair of shorts and nothing else. At all.
Can I smoke weed first?
The simple analogue untrackable life!
How about an opendime or a brain wallet?
🤣🤣🤣
I do this almost 5 days now.. so much peace.
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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what do I need a watch for?
but no #nostr sir
Me too
Going to integrate this into my life 🤙
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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That's what the revolver is for.
"I do a great impression of a hot dog!" 😂
I do this every weekend but I also wear a bitcoin ring
"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" ☠️
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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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*post on social media first* contrived
Which model is this? Beautiful watch!
Or what does it matter if the watch is mechanical or digital for that matter?
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.
leave your 12 words at home
Seiko SRPE93 Prospex SEA - The Turtle. 😄
Seiko SRPE93 Prospex SEA
Great watch
I just prefer a mechanical watch. More analog soul.
It’s just completely analog way to track the time.
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.
All green except for an orange at the 12. The bezel zero and second hand are normal luminescent paint, but that little triangle fell out long ago.
That's a GSAR. I believe they made some sterile versions that year, also.
Thank you. 🙏
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.
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.
@weebitshifty
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.
@weebitshifty
Seiko makes great stuff. Or Casio if you want to go digital.
Thanks, I always wanted the Code Blue. The blue tritium just looks so cool. I actually bought that one with Bitcoin back at the good ol' 20k ATH.
Love this design, what model is it?
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
Good advice.
No. Don't keep seed words at your house.
H/T @DETERMINISTIC OPTIMISM 🌞
Me likey.
#GrapheneOS on a pixel phone is what you want.
You know what time it is 👻🤙
marin instruments 
Good looking piece
🙏🙏🙏
The little things in life 💜
Beautiful collection. 💙
beautiful watch. which brand?
Be the grey man.
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.
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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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.
But through phone they still know your location, sending signal to the nearest towel
Classic, I used to love this design when I was Kid. But never got into buying it because I never find in local maket. What does it called? Who manufactor it tho?
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")
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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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.
analog car, no GPS, no sensors, NO seat belt alarm