**Alternative Title: How to break up the responsibilities and power of your phone**
Phones are amazing tools. They are an extension of our brains (which basically makes us [cyborgs](https://ar.al/2019/05/02/slavery-2.0-and-how-to-avoid-it-a-practical-guide-for-cyborgs/)) and provide us with many tools all packed into a small formfactor.
This is both their strenght and their weakness. What happens if you lose your phone? You lost access to those tools, your memories, means of authentication, means of communication, and more. You might have a backup of those things because you planned ahead. But there might be someone who also has access to these things. That means they have access to parts of your brain. Isn't that scary?
The problem lies in the fact that a phone has **too many responsibilities**. It's responsible for getting your mail. For paying for your groceries. As a flashlight when you go into the cellar and the lights broke *again*. For playing music on your way to work. For navigation on your way to a foreign place. For communicating with your family. For calling for help in the case of an emergency.
If you had different devices for all these things, what would you have used for owning a phone?
A computer. A physical credit card. A flashlight. An mp3 player. A navigation system. A (dumb) phone.
Phew, that's a lot of devices.
Weekend in Bad Goisern
We spent the weekend in Bad Goisern, Austria, after my gf saw a photo of Halstätter See and fell in love with it.
New feature: Images
this is a test post to see if I can upload and display images. You might think this is an easy thing to do. Well.
v0 or v1
What do software versions have to do with self-esteem?
Working is fun again
A whole week of staring at my screens, without making any progress and muttering curses into my nonexisting beard. God, it feels great to be working again.
Back up
After crashing into depression yesterday, I could get back on my feet with the help of my lovely gf and some skills. Today I feel a lot fresher.
Things that AI destroyed
Things that AI destroyed
Waiting to panic
I'm at work, its 15:36, which means another hour of work. I feel tired and stressed at the same time.
Tired
I noticed how awfully *tired* I am these days. I need more time to recover.
Internet Phone Book Issue 2
The Internet Phone Book is open for submissions for Issue 2!
New Internet
We successfully switched Internet providers! It was a 10 minute job in the end, with a few hours of anxiety before.
Mermaid o' clock
I tried to make a clock in Mermaid.
Die Verkrempelung der Welt
On tech and useless crap (most of the time, the same thing)
This time, surely
A hopeless hope.
A walk in the park
Cycles and psychological disorders, my favorite things in the world.
Second Post
You might think that the hardest part about starting to blog is the first post. WRONG! It's the second post. The third post.
First Post
Ah, the infamous first post. A drop of ink on a blank canvas. Or rather, the first keystroke in an empty textarea. It's all the same. Anxiety creeps in, with every minute that you stare into this empty abyss.