Yes and no. I think it would be decently socially unacceptable for someone to decide to go completely dark for a day each week. A mandate would remove the stigma.

But, like… so? It’s decently socially unacceptable to dress up like Batman and walk around town shouting for the Joker. But you can still do it, and just because it’s socially unacceptable to most doesn’t mean we should force it on most.

On a helpful side because I do generally agree with the premise (although with lots of caveats) that unplugging a bit is helpful, I have a few thoughts:

If you’re on iOS, use Focus modes. If you’re on Android, I’m sure there is some equivalent. I have my paid work hours, and then I have “working hours” (I’m salaried, if you’re hourly I’d say throw your phone in a faraday cage if you aren’t getting paid for it) where I reduce comms. Email is on during paid hours, but probably off during “working hours” except VIPs and a few keywords. Messaging stays on during working hours, but after go off. Subordinates know phone calls for emergency (which are rare.) This is one thing I don’t like about the US not settling on a messaging standard - for all of the other iOS using people, they can see when I have a notifications are off, and know when to escalate comms if they really need help. Android not so much.

For work, set boundaries in contracts and what not. If the cultural norm is you’re going to be expected to be at your phone 24/7 and it’s not paid for and not something you’re okay with, either ignore it and let them try to fire you, or realistically just find a new job because that’s a shit culture.

For personal, just do whatever the fuck you want. I don’t even try to justify it any longer because it’s just not reasonable, and if someone really has a problem that I didn’t like their post or respond to their text in 0.3 seconds, maybe I don’t really care that much they’re not my friend?

Also, I generally find that a lot of the expectation that we’re always “on” is self-inflicted. I know plenty of people who sending a text message to might be as effective as sending a smoke signal and it just isn’t that big a deal? I used to be one of those “I have to answer every message/email/post in 30s” type of people, and when I stopped doing that it was totally fine, except I was far less stressed. And it virtually never led to anything positive. My boss never pulled me aside and said “fastest emailer in the west, here’s a 20% raise.” I just set the expectation for those around me that my time wasn’t important and I was always going to be at someone’s beck and call.

I mean, or feel free to call it the sabbath because forcing people to do things based on a hunch or personal opinion is totally religiosity in a nutshell.

And if we don’t just cherry pick one thing and instead look at the litany of health issues that may be self-inflicted in medical professions, we probably wouldn’t be left with many doctors/nurses.

You know, I didn’t even think of this. I initially just thought “good, they might get a queer kid they’ll abuse/neglect and thus shouldn’t have them” but the whole limiting of the expansion of more shitbirds sure is a nice bonus.

I came here to say similar. macOS > all for me. I personally generally detest Windows, but I keep an install around because I want to game and don’t want getting my games to run to be a hobby. I’d much rather do most productivity types of things on Linux rather than Windows. That said, I’m far and away most productive on macOS, and the tooling there is just better for me for most things, especially given that I use an iPhone as my mobile. Just the integrations between those two would make switching either one hard, especially given it’s not nearly as good on any other platform. But honestly, even trying to use a computer without Keyboard Maestro and Launchbar just feel straight up broken to me now.

Also, people downvoting in this thread maybe didn’t read the question? “Which do you prefer?”

They seem to want to be obstinate, so while I don’t agree, I’ll take a stab at answering the question:

The link they posted has this bit right at the top:

You may have paid money to get copies of a free program, or you may have obtained copies at no charge. But regardless of how you got your copies, you always have the freedom to copy and change the software, even to sell copies.

The fundamental belief seems to be that however you obtained the software, paid or not, you should be free to do literally whatever you want with it.

Where I really disagree is that proprietary software (like half of the answers in this fucking thread lol) are fundamentally not scams. A “scam” implies something that one party, the patsy, is not aware of.

Topics on the side. “Gaming, Sports, Business, Crypto…” Reddit trying really hard to pretend it’s not just around for porn and memes. Also, crypto lol. Tech bro a little harder, spez.

I thought world War 2 and the rise of fascism in Europe was supposed to have taught us something.

They don’t gotta burn the books, they just remove 'em.

WWII might have been the end, but they’ve slowly been worsening education especially in places like Florida. I think at this point, capitalist social media is also a significant cause of the rise in fascism. When Zuck decides to platform holocaust deniers or twitter decides “free speech [for nazis]” it legitimizes it. It doesn’t take much before this translates into real life. You surround yourself online in your little bubble with all of the other crazies (yay Facebook is bringing people together) long enough and it’s nearly impossible not to translate that into the real world.

History is pretty fuckin’ easy to repeat if you don’t know the history.