One of the first things I wanted to explore in my mission to cut myself off from compulsive connectivity was to find the options for turning my smart phone into a dumb phone.

The main aim was to make my phone as uninteresting as possible. One of the main tips thrown around for this is to turn your phone greyscale. Luckily on the iPhone that is quite simple, and you can also setup a toggle button. I found this feature to be quite useful as accessibility on the internet is really quite terrible - you don’t know annoyance until you try and submit a form and it tells you there’s an error but there’s no obvious indiciation as to what that error is unless you’re viewing the page in colour.

Towards the end of 2023, a growing unease prompted me to seriously evaluate my device and app usage. I found myself habitually reaching for my phone, ostensibly to “just check”. Recognizing that I wasn’t alone in this sentiment, I delved into the realm of digital minimalism and connected with various communities centered around this philosophy.

The main issue that surfaced was my persistent need to stay connected— whether through Discord, iMessage, Reddit, or email. I found myself compulsively checking these apps, only to discover that I was missing out on nothing substantial. Even with the majority of notifications disabled, allowing people instant access to my time and attention started to feel very wrong.

If you’re using unraid and want to use the docker engine to run your wordpress site, you’re likely going to want to increase the maximum upload size.

This is the simplest way I found of doing it, though I am sure there are other methods.

First locate the .htaccess file in your webroot. If you don’t know where to find the appdata path you can just edit the container and look for the following option:

One of the first presents we bought ourselves after we got married was a proper bean-to-cup coffee machine. For the longest time we just picked up whichever beans were cheap enough and easily available, be it from large online retailers or the local supermarket. We really needed to upgrade our coffee experience - here is my review of Rave Coffee.

More recently we decided we should be focusing on quality over quantity. Moreso we had become concerned over the environmental impact our coffee habits were having.

At this stage in the build I was about ready to find a way to house my PS5 in my rack, and do some general decor. If you haven’t checked out Part 1 and part 2 yet, check them out first!

One of the main reasons for moving things into a rack in the first place was to clear all my tech - or as much as possible. Housing the PS5 would clear a fair bit of room from the surfaces in my den, they are not small things.