我故意让手机变慢了。

我故意让手机变慢了。
I made my phone slow on purpose

原始链接: https://vinewallapp.com/notes/i-made-my-phone-slow-on-purpose/

为了对抗持续的“末日刷屏”（doomscrolling），作者开发了一款名为“VineWall”的 iOS 应用，旨在通过刻意降低特定干扰性应用的网速来达到目的。作者认识到即时满足感是强迫性刷屏的诱因，并以“曲奇”作比喻：当一种体验变得不再吸引人或难以获取时，消费它的欲望就会随之减弱。 VineWall 的工作原理是限制网速，使用户在持续刷屏时，高清视频内容会变得模糊，图片也无法加载。通过逐步加强限速，该应用将顺滑的内容浏览过程，转变成充斥着加载图标和空白占位符的沮丧体验。这种阻碍迫使用户审视自己的习惯，并最终反思：“我真的需要这个吗？”通过让数字“曲奇”变质，该应用有效地打破了无休止高速刷屏的成瘾循环。

关于“故意让手机变慢”的 Hacker News 讨论，核心在于利用“数字摩擦”来对抗“无脑刷屏”和社交媒体成瘾。原发帖者建议使用一种名为 VineWall 的工具，通过刻意降低手机性能来打破即时满足的循环。社区指出几种实现此目的的热门策略： * **软件干扰：** *One Sec* 和 *ScreenZen* 等应用会强制用户在打开令人分心的应用程序前等待几秒钟，使理性思维能够抑制冲动习惯。 * **视觉摩擦：** 将手机屏幕调为灰阶模式可以降低内容刺激感，而增大字体或关闭自动补全功能则会让使用过程变得繁琐。 * **访问门槛：** 许多用户建议删除应用，强制改为仅通过浏览器访问，或将易成瘾的平台转移到放置在别处的“备用干扰机”上。 * **高级管控：** 资深用户建议使用 Apple Configurator 进行移动设备管理（MDM），以严格限制应用白名单，甚至完全禁用浏览器，防止轻易绕过限制。 * **心理转变：** 一些评论者认为，技术无法解决根本原因（通常是逃避无聊或潜在压力），真正的改变需要识别这些诱因并寻找更健康的替代方案。社区共识是，虽然没有哪种方法是万无一失的，但通过降低速度、改变颜色或设置访问障碍来增加使用“成本”，是重获使用自主权的有效途径。

原文

Last year I got a brand new iPhone 17 shortly after it came out. It was a bit ironic to spend that much on a phone just to build the thing that would slow it down.

Slowing down your own phone on purpose sounds&mldr; unconventional, but I had a good reason for it.

For a long time I struggled with doomscrolling. I tried the usual stuff (cold turkey, app blockers) but they didn’t address the craving, and they were easy enough to bypass on top of that, none of it worked.

A thought experiment about cookies.

A chocolate cookie resting on a plain cookie, both dusted with powdered sugar.

How far would you go for a chocolate cookie?

If you had a little machine in your pocket that baked a fresh one any time you wanted, you’d eat way more cookies than you do now, probably one every time you got mildly bored.

But if the closest cookie were a four-hour drive away, you’d eat almost none, even if you love cookies.

Or if there were a cookie in your kitchen, but it was stale, you’d mostly leave it alone.

The phone, of course, is the cookie machine in your pocket. So how do you make the cookies harder to get, or less appetizing? Slow it down!

Making the phone slow

There are not many options to make a phone slower, but there is one that also happens to be the Achilles heel of many apps that cause you to doomscroll: Internet speed.

Showing a new video every time you mildly flick your finger up, at nearly instant speed, requires a fast and stable internet connection.

Knowing all that, I decided to build VineWall, an iOS app that can control the internet speed of some apps, and use this control to make the “cookie” more stale and harder to get.

It squeezes the apps, tighter and tighter!

Capped speed, mild blocky

Right off the bat the speed is capped at the speed of a spotty cellular connection. It is not enough to stop any app, but enough for the videos to get “blocky” and not look as crisp as we are used to.

As the scrolling continues, the throttling increases and video image quality decreases. Apps that rely on text content (such as Reddit, X, Threads), will start to show gray boxes instead of images.

Eventually you will spend more time staring at loading spinners than anything else, and at this point a question starts to sit in the back of your mind: Do I really want this cookie?

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