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The title is a question we hear a lot from people considering Mudita Kompakt.

Mudita Kompakt is a flexible minimalist phone

A few years ago, switching to a minimalist phone often meant giving up navigation, music, ebooks, maps, and other tools many people rely on every day. Today, that trade-off looks very different.

What I've found most interesting is that the challenge isn't usually the technology itself. It's the habits we've built around constantly reaching for our phones.

Some Kompakt users have fully replaced their smartphones. Others use a hybrid setup and keep a smartphone at home for occasional tasks. Both approaches seem to work well depending on individual needs.

We recently explored this topic in a new article:

Can You Replace Your Smartphone with a Minimalist Phone in 2026?

And we're curious:

• Have you completely replaced your smartphone with Mudita Kompakt?
• Are you using a hybrid setup?
• What was the hardest thing to give up?
• What benefit surprised you the most?

I'd love to hear how your experience compares to what's discussed in the article.

I'm looking for a comfortable mediation pillow for longer session. I bought a couple on Amazon and had to return them because either my behind kelp sliding off or my knee started to hurt. I'm looking for something that's not a round & tapered cushion (those unfortunately don't work for me). Ideally, I'd like something I can just sink into without worrying about posture and pain while mediating. Any recommendations recommended. TIA

1 month in and I am absolutely blown away by how good the Mudita Kompakt is as a primary device. In this post I will describe how this device stacks up compared to other smartphone alternatives that I have tried, then I will describe how I specifically set up the device for my needs.

The result is truly life changing and I am super grateful to the team at Mudita for making this happen! ✌️ Love the e-paper screen!

Alternatives that I have tried in order:

1. Kyocera Dura XV - this was a great dumb phone, but to use Maps, Whatsapp, etc I still needed to have an android phone. What was nice was that I didn't need service and used this vice to to tether wifi to said android phone. It was effectively an on/off switch for everything on my smart phone. Main problem: T9 style texting really sucked and there was no text to speech.
2. Lightphone 2 - this is a great device, and I used it in a similar way to the Dura XV, except that the texting was better and there was voice to speech. Maps was still basically unusable and the lack of Whatsapp / Signal meant that I still needed a regular android phone for these things. Ultimately texting was still a pain in spite of it being better than on the Dura XV.
3. Google Pixel Phone with Olauncher - I used this setup for a while and installed all sorts of tools to prevent myself from getting sucked into the email and browser, but alas I succumbed to the temptation and found workarounds that resulted in wasting a lot of time on Youtube, reading news, email, etc. I tried this because I was sick of carrying two devices and wanted texting to just work.

In my setup of the Mudita Kompakt my goals were:

• No:
  • Browser
  • Email
  • Youtube
  • Social Media
• Yes:
  • Texting (with voice-to-text)
  • Maps (not perfect, but works in a pinch)
  • Whatsapp
  • Signal
  • Syncing Calendar

To achieve this I made the following customizations installed through a sideloaded F-droid and / or Aurora Store:

1. Proton Calendar, Signal, and Tidal. These all work very well out of the box! Amazing!!!
2. FUTO Keyboard works well and the text-to-speech is quite good.
3. Whatsapp was a bit more involved and still not perfect, but it is functional. The main issue here is that it was backing up to Google Drive and since there is no Google services I was having issues with history, contacts, and syncing with other devices. My workaround is to leave my old Android phone as the primary Whatsapp device, plugged in at home and use the Mudita as a "Linked Device". There are still issues with battery usage alerts and occasionally dropped calls. Contact syncing is still not perfect; basically for a contact to show up correctly I would need to add it to my Google Contacts and wait for the devices to sync.

I hope this helps other who are considering this more digitally minimalist lifestyle and again THANK YOU to the Mudita Team!!!

I'll try to answer any questions at some point, even if I don't get back to you immediately.

Growing up, I used to watch Beverly Hills, 90210 religiously. As an adult, I re-watched the show many times and there were some episodes where, looking back, I'm not sure those episodes should have even been made (or the ideas that were fine but executed terribly). And some that I wish would have been made, but were not. And a few episodes should have never even left the writers room- they should have been thrown straight in the bin. Like Andrea's pregnancy storyline and Dylan with the horse lady. I still have no idea what anyone involved was thinking. Such a weird filler episode.

Shadow Caster :)

I know many of us probably wish Brenda had stayed longer and become a successful actress. The show never really recovered from losing Shannen Doherty. Instead of endless Kelly-Dylan-Brandon relationship recycling, I would have loved a proper Brenda-in-London arc where she returns as a confident, successful actress who has outgrown the group.

So, I'm wondering....what plotlines/storylines would you write? Which ones would you change & which ones would you throw straight in the garbage.

Season 6- I remember watching this scene (as it aired back in the day) and really wishing both Brenda & Dylan would make a guest appearance in a future episode where they are together again, as an FU to Kelly.

At least some more "off-screen" plot lines involving Branda & Dylan.