Has anyone gone more analogue and loved it?

[Consideringparttime]

Ironically inspired by a tiktok video someone showed me about living like the 90s, I've really scaled back lots of the 'noise' of modern life and I'm liking it so far

Has anyone else done this? Or just want to chat about it. I mean, it's not rocket science, it's just having a simpler life but I'm interested in it
Here's what I've done so far

1. Got my cd player out for the kitchen instead of listening through phone
2. Got my DvDs out again

Started waking up to the radio on a timer, not a phone alarm.

1. No reading news on phone, just put telly on if I want news
2. Started a Christmas list, rather than just buying whatever I want. It's made me look forward to Christmas

I'd love to chat if anyone has done the Same sort of thing

I don't think I would be ditching my smartphone though. I think it's an important and useful thing to have. SO much depends on having a smartphones these days... IMO, it would be like public transport being cancelled/stopped, (out to my little village, 3.5 miles from my little market town,) and then me getting rid of my car!

You are wasting your time.

If someone doesn't understand how much higher quality HD and 4K are than DVD then it's probably because they are watching them on a £100 24" TV from about 20 feet away and know nothing of the technical details of the picture quality. Blu Ray is objectively higher quality than DVD. There is no sensible argument otherwise.

I would love there to be some magic that turns DVD into as high a quality viewing experience as blu ray as I have quite a few of them but there just isn't. Maybe in the future there may be some AI upscaling that can do it and make it look better. But I will make a guess that because physical media is generally dying even if someone could come up with a player that did this (it would probably need a lot of processing power and so be pretty expensive) hardly anyone would want to buy or produce it.

Maybe there is a bit of irony that MP3s are actually less quality I think than the older native tracks they are ripped from on audio CDs because of the lossy compression process. But to me an MP3 file is not significantly worse than playing a native CD and I can tolerate either. A DVD I really can't, unless it is on a small screen like a phone or a tablet. I don't think this is just AV snobbery either. DVDs would be pretty intolerable I think by anyone watching on my setup, and my setup isn't particularly demanding either (48"). Watching DVDs on a 75" TV would be truly horrible.

@octoverwhelmed its a CAT S22. Not the best phone in the world to be honest! But it met my needs.

I've got mechanical kitchen and bathroom scales so no need to buy batteries

My DC mock me for wearing a real watch. They just don't get it. My Dad gave me it for my 21st. It is elegant and graceful and makes me feel good.

Whilst I do find my smartphone useful for certain things, particularly train travel, much of my daily life is analogue. Paper diary, and train tickets, landline, notebook and pencil for shopping lists, textile and practical hobbies, paper road maps, old style weights for kitchen scales, always carry some cash, traditional carpet sweeper, very few household gadgets. A vintage non electric sewing machine in regular use. Real books, lots of them. A daily print newspaper. I also strongly prefer to connect with people and events in person (rather than through screens). For me it makes for a richer, more textured, more engaged life.

I’d like to stop faffing about on here!
I’d really like a brick phone with just Spotify for podcasts and WhatsApp for chatting.

You might as well give up on following the news if you are going to depend on the relly as a source

Only problem with landlines is the amount of calls you get from scammers.