Oh this was great. None of this attention-seeking tech is your fault. https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing
The Last Quiet Thing

Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.

Terry Godier
@bjoreman I hade kind of the same feeling then I switched from iOS to GrapheneOS. Suddenly I had a quiet device. No bright colors, no notifications except for calls and texts. Just quiet...
@mapseen I'm looking forward to figuring out if the Jolla phone can give me some of that feeling. I am pretty good at banishing notifications, but there's sure to be more tugging at my attention..
@bjoreman Yes. The Jolla Phone is very tempting. I once owned the Nokia N9 and had a great but short experience with that one. If Jolla can make banking apps work reliably they should have a winner there. But don't take my word for it. Having owned Windows phones and Blackberry tablets I'm not the best at predicting what will suceed... 😆

@mapseen Not making any predictions at all here 😄. But my banking apps seem to work, so that’s pretty cool already.

(Also realized I can’t blame notifications too much, I think a lot of my pickups are reflexive looking for distraction.)