Even at work, our phones are usually within reach. But does removing them from our desks help us be less distracted by them? A researcher, asking people to place their phones just out of their reach, put it to the test. The results showed that participants didn’t spend any less time pursuing leisure activities when their phones were further away from them, and that they switched between work and leisure tasks just as often.

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[–] werty@sh.itjust.works 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I played solitaire with real cards before i had a computer so this is not surprising

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

And bought the morning newspaper to read.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 days ago

I can see that fedora was very popular back in the day.

[–] jimmux@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago

Newspapers and magazines used to be absolutely everywhere. Littering train carriages, stacked up in waiting rooms. Most of my workplaces would have a daily paper lying around that rotated through the team. Paperbacks exist because they were easy to carry around.

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 4 days ago

I was master of staring off into space and day dreaming, if I did not have anything to read, before the phones came.