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[–] puppy@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Productive: Maps, check the stock market, read non fiction/Wikipedia, pay bills, translate voice or text written in a foreign language, use as a bike computer or GPS tracker, hail a ride/taxi, rent a bike, communicate with people.

Fun: Read books/comics, amateur photography/videography, puzzles, listen to music.

Purposefully left out apps that cause doomscrolling and addiction.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

pay bills

I don't trust the phone browser anymore after I had it crash during a payment. The money was sent, but the token wasn't sent back to the website.
Thankfully we now have instant bank transfers, so the state of the browser doesn't matter.

Anyway, I still prefer to take out the laptop for serious stuff like payments.

[–] hit_the_rails@reddthat.com 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Big purchases must happen on big screen.

[–] TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Yes, addiction is not fun. Reddit is not fun and neither is using drugs.

[–] Ludrol@szmer.info 16 points 1 month ago

Contributing to !openstreetmap@lemmy.ml and reading books

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

look up gifs of how a human heart beats while your instructor tries their best to imitate it with their hands and a white board

[–] TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 month ago

I'd rather not.

[–] Today@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Duolingo.

Call your politicians. Try call5.org.

Maybe the daily puzzle games are productive.?

[–] TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

!dailygames@lemmy.zip yeah they're fun

I feel like I've done everything a phone can do at this point

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

you could also use it as a blunt weapon

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Yes, I was going to comment that they could smack a Nazi in the face with it.

[–] astrsk@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

Put it in a tube sock or pillowcase and increase the effectiveness!

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Turn it off and touch grass.

[–] TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

I'd rather ride past grass.

[–] Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Audit your pics/videos if you don’t keep up with them and delete the ones you don’t need. I’ve been trying to trim them all down to free up storage space and then eventually back them up locally to a hard drive.

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Mess with photos and stickers or make little movies with iMovie.