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(My Fox 8 Greensboro)   Levi Felix, Digital Detox co-founder, dies at 32   (myfox8.com) divider line
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2017-01-15 12:31:12 AM  
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RIP
 
2017-01-15 1:20:09 AM  
Cancer is an asshole.

I really respect what he was trying to do. It's really difficult to unplug from our gadgetry and digital life. I think in some ways being connected to the whole world with a few clicks is ironically making us alienate each other and lose our humanity. Just read the comments in any political forum.
 
Shaggy_C  
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2017-01-15 6:13:13 AM  
Just wait til he gets to the pearly gates and finds St Peter using an iPad.
 
eas81  
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2017-01-15 7:24:25 AM  

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RIP


There can be only ONE!

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downstairs [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2017-01-15 7:25:01 AM  

ecmoRandomNumbers: Cancer is an asshole.

I really respect what he was trying to do. It's really difficult to unplug from our gadgetry and digital life. I think in some ways being connected to the whole world with a few clicks is ironically making us alienate each other and lose our humanity. Just read the comments in any political forum.


First RIP.  First I've heard of this guy, and I don't think he was a woo-woo wacko.  He had a mission, and I understand it.

I'm conflicted on the whole "being connected all the time" thing, since it's what I've done for 30 years (and I'm only 41).

People like me, who are a tad bit different socially, find the "always-on connectivity" to be a lot easier to manage than, say, non-digital communication.  But that's me.

I know it's drawbacks, and I've seen it make peoples lives miserable.  So I still applaud this guy's efforts, and I won't knock them... many people need what he was selling.

RIP, Cancer sucks.
 
SBinRR [OhFark]  
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2017-01-15 7:40:36 AM  
It feels like I should have read this article in a newspaper and not on a news web page.
 
2017-01-15 7:46:41 AM  

ecmoRandomNumbers: I think in some ways being connected to the whole world with a few clicks is ironically making us alienate each other and lose our humanity. Just read the comments in any political forum.


Hey, screw you man!
 
durbnpoisn  
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2017-01-15 7:47:16 AM  
That's a shame.  And I totally respect and understand what he was trying to do.

Seeing as how everything in my life revolves around technology to some extent, it would be damned near impossible for me to cut the chord for very long.

I've only been "off the grid" one time since this whole internet and cell phone stuff became a thing.  I was out in Wisconsin.  We were pretty far out in the middle of nowhere.  There was no cell reception.  There was no internet.  So I just turned everything off for a week.  I smoked a lot and went fishing all week.  It was awesome!!
And when I returned, life had continued as usual without me.  Although my friends had some funny stories about stuff I missed while I was gone.  That was like catching up on an old TV show.
 
FatherDale  
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2017-01-15 8:13:34 AM  
Would have read tfa, but a giant ad for a meat company was in the center of my screen and wouldn't go away.
 
2017-01-15 8:21:35 AM  
It's possible to be both digitally connected and be mindful but I can see how much more difficult it would be for younger generations who have no idea what a non-digital life is.  I grew up in an era where high tech was a two-button TV remote.
 
2017-01-15 8:22:37 AM  
Sooooo....one less hipster?
 
2017-01-15 8:22:43 AM  

SBinRR: It feels like I should have read this article in a newspaper and not on a news web page.


His obit was in the NYT. Because you haven't heard of someone doesn't mean they didn't have an impact.
 
darkeyes  
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2017-01-15 8:23:40 AM  
This is sad, but I thought it was amusing that a guy advocating disconnecting from technology is holding a megaphone in his picture.
 
jso2897 [TotalFark]  
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2017-01-15 8:25:30 AM  

FatherDale: Would have read tfa, but a giant ad for a meat company was in the center of my screen and wouldn't go away.


It's those damn bikers!
 
Jyoshka  
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2017-01-15 8:26:12 AM  

dodecahedron: SBinRR: It feels like I should have read this article in a newspaper and not on a news web page.

His obit was in the NYT. Because you haven't heard of someone doesn't mean they didn't have an impact.


His point didn't just fly by you, it strapped on a jet pack and went "ZOOM"!
 
JRoo  
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2017-01-15 8:34:10 AM  
Ha!

I'm ten years older than you and still alive! I haven't accomplished shiat, have no money, and do drugs non-stop!

I'm winning!
 
Bslim  
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2017-01-15 8:58:22 AM  
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Lagaidh  
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2017-01-15 9:08:22 AM  

ecmoRandomNumbers: Cancer is an asshole.

I really respect what he was trying to do. It's really difficult to unplug from our gadgetry and digital life. I think in some ways being connected to the whole world with a few clicks is ironically making us alienate each other and lose our humanity. Just read the comments in any political forum.


In some ways?

GRAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

The internet going commercial built the world we live in over the last twenty-five years! Being this connected as a species is exactly why the social temperature of the world is near boiling. Humans, as an organism, were not ready for this kind of interconnection. Bees maybe. Ants? Then again, their individual minds are vastly less complex. Networking them is a good idea. Humans' brains are wired around immediate connection: I can see your expression, you can hear my breathing. Little cues that tell us what's going on when language fails. We need that shiat to interpret each other correctly. In cyberspace, we don't have it yet.

shiat. We may not even be ready to know so much about each other all the time even if we could get the other communicative inputs. One human simply isn't made to communicate to so many other people. Too much meaning is lost in the transmission. We boil it down to slogans. Change we can believe in. Make America great again.

A human can sit down and understand a deep book, but a crowd can only respond to RAH RAH RAH. Look at how big a single crowd the internet made out of the teeming animal mass that is humanity.

We got this shiat before we were mature enough for it. Kind of like nukes.

Heh. Is that the essence of humanity? Curiosity didn't kill the cat... did it?
 
mikaloyd [OhFark]  
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2017-01-15 9:19:06 AM  
Seems like a dangerous lifestyle
 
2017-01-15 9:21:05 AM  

mikaloyd: Seems like a dangerous lifestyle


It's killed at least one person.
 
Lagaidh  
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2017-01-15 9:23:15 AM  

durbnpoisn: That's a shame.  And I totally respect and understand what he was trying to do.

Seeing as how everything in my life revolves around technology to some extent, it would be damned near impossible for me to cut the chord for very long.

I've only been "off the grid" one time since this whole internet and cell phone stuff became a thing.  I was out in Wisconsin.  We were pretty far out in the middle of nowhere.  There was no cell reception.  There was no internet.  So I just turned everything off for a week.  I smoked a lot and went fishing all week.  It was awesome!!
And when I returned, life had continued as usual without me.  Although my friends had some funny stories about stuff I missed while I was gone.  That was like catching up on an old TV show.


I hear you. I got my bachelor's in computer science and had been farting around with computers since 1983 when I was 6 and Santa Claus brought me and my brother that Atari 5400 I'd seen in my parents' closet. I've had my nose to tech for a while.

I can't pinpoint when the culture changed (general attitude towards tech). I didn't get a cell phone until 2007 and that is because the job I took was at a lean start-up company and they had one office line. By 2005 the shift in culture had occurred and people thought it was odd that I didn't have a cell phone. My answer was simple: I don't want people to be able to get a hold of me at any time anywhere.

I also remember trying to get folks excited about the quality of the portable screen on a Gameboy Advance SP. Wow! It's like a super nintendo in your hand! The fact that you had TV quality video in a device about the size of a pack of cigarettes wasn't amazing, but a few years later, texting your buddy that Celebrity X's ass looks funny in sequins was the height of jet-setting new tech! (Primal rage scream.)

To this day I don't know what the hell everyone's always talking about on their phones. Seriously. I go out into town and there are so many inane conversations taking place. How come so few folks snap out of the stupor to ask "Is this conversation worth it?" Is it even a conversation? Are folks scared to death to feel alone? Well, quit calling folks you aren't with, look to your left and right. You probably see other people. You are not alone.

Hehe. I know at 39 I'm sounding like old man yells at cloud, but I truly cannot fully understand the draw of our hyper-connected culture, especially since I've earned my living creating the very tools that would be used in ways I could never foresee.

/shrug
 
RY28  
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2017-01-15 9:31:26 AM  

bighairyguy: It's possible to be both digitally connected and be mindful but I can see how much more difficult it would be for younger generations who have no idea what a non-digital life is.  I grew up in an era where high tech was a two-button TV remote.


Luxury !
 
2017-01-15 9:58:53 AM  
I had some "life" happen to me the last half of 2016, and I ended up staying a good bit on a "working farm", a hippy farm.

For 3 hots and a cot, I would generally cut wood.  Loaded that wood splitter more times times that I can count.

The question that I kept coming back to, was why am I happy doing this menial task for nothing, but miserable baning keys behind a screen all day?

It is real, you should try it.
 
2017-01-15 10:00:58 AM  
fark him. He was trying to make a business out of fasting. A special flavor of reductio ad absurdium.
 
2017-01-15 10:22:18 AM  

Lagaidh: durbnpoisn:

To this day I don't know what the hell everyone's always talking about on their phones. Seriously. I go out into town and there are so many inane conversat ...


I'm not quite as old as you are being 34, but have the same experience and mindset. Even if people aren't actively engaged with one person through their smartphone, the technology has been made available to where they can broadcast their mind's thoughts at any moment, engaging hundreds to thousands. But why would you? I don't understand what drives someone to AW like that. Go to a party and everyone is on their phone as if the people at the party have less value than the people that they could be reaching out to.

It's sad that I've had to condition anyone that wants to communicate with me to expect a delay longer than two minutes. I'm not anti-connected or a luddite, I've just got shiat to do besides checking to see what everyone else has to say at every waking moment. Put your phone in airplane mode and go get something accomplished people.
 
2017-01-15 10:29:40 AM  
If only he'd survived another year, he couldn't have died until he was 64.
 
ukexpat  
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2017-01-15 10:37:11 AM  

Shaggy_C: Just wait til he gets to the pearly gates and finds St Peter using an iPad.


He probably gets a beta version to test.
 
kendelrio  
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2017-01-15 10:45:17 AM  
Would it be irony if, with his life mission, he developed his brain cancer from technology?
 
kendelrio  
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2017-01-15 10:45:45 AM  
Plus:

/fark cancer
//won't thread jack
 
2017-01-15 10:52:29 AM  
I have noticed something.  My kids have their faces glued to their devices.  They know who is wearing what to school before he/she even shows up.  They know what she said about him last night to her BFF, who was sworn to secrecy and they know what he told his friend, even though no one is supposed to know they're even dating.  And yet, when I call or text somehow magically their phone had just run out of power - every damn time.  This guy might have been on to something.
 
DarkVader  
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2017-01-15 10:54:02 AM  

EnderWiggnz: I had some "life" happen to me the last half of 2016, and I ended up staying a good bit on a "working farm", a hippy farm.

For 3 hots and a cot, I would generally cut wood.  Loaded that wood splitter more times times that I can count.

The question that I kept coming back to, was why am I happy doing this menial task for nothing, but miserable baning keys behind a screen all day?

It is real, you should try it.


No.

I had to split wood as a kid.  My fireplace is gas now.  Never again.

I'm happier behind a screen that I would ever be on a farm of any kind.
 
cwheelie  
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2017-01-15 12:18:09 PM  
Just found out a friend died Friday of brain cancer. Well, technically it was the seizure on the way to his 1st chemo session that got him, but still....
fark you cancer
 
2017-01-15 1:05:47 PM  

EnderWiggnz: I had some "life" happen to me the last half of 2016, and I ended up staying a good bit on a "working farm", a hippy farm.

For 3 hots and a cot, I would generally cut wood.  Loaded that wood splitter more times times that I can count.

The question that I kept coming back to, was why am I happy doing this menial task for nothing, but miserable baning keys behind a screen all day?

It is real, you should try it.


The answer is easy, at least for me.

Working construction, I could walk out and say "I did that. Where there was nothing, now there is something, because of me." Non-physical jobs don't do that for me.

I can see and help 40 patients a day, but it doesn't give the visceral reaction that working with my hands does.
 
Fubegra  
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2017-01-15 10:48:08 PM  

bighairyguy: It's possible to be both digitally connected and be mindful but I can see how much more difficult it would be for younger generations who have no idea what a non-digital life is. I grew up in an era where high tech was a two-button TV remote.


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My grandparents (dad's side) had one of these bad boys back in the day. The old ultrasonic tuning-fork remotes were good fun when you were a kid with a pocket full of keys or coins to jingle.
 
2017-01-16 7:58:30 AM  

Jyoshka: dodecahedron: SBinRR: It feels like I should have read this article in a newspaper and not on a news web page.

His obit was in the NYT. Because you haven't heard of someone doesn't mean they didn't have an impact.

His point didn't just fly by you, it strapped on a jet pack and went "ZOOM"!


oy. I deserved that.
 
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