Kompakt NA notes

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I received a Kompakt NA a week ago, here are notes that might be of interest to others:

  1. After a bazillion years in tech, I found life is more pleasant when I adapt to technology as a tool rather than me trying to endlessly tweak technology to try and adapt to my idiosyncrasies
  2. The only additional apps/functions I need, mainly for travel when I’m away from home, is Signal for secure messaging and Proton Mail for communicating with travel bookings. Both of them installed easily, work well and stay in the background
  3. For Signal I choose to not enable background refresh to save battery life
  4. In keeping with the mood of Mudita, I prefer to control the tech rather than the tech controlling me (minimal notifications, alerts, annoyances). On the ranch I grew up on, we still had a magneto crank telephone (two longs and a short), and I learned there is important and then there is urgent and they can be separate
  5. I signed up with Mint Mobile 5gb at $15/mo. It configured easily, but voice mail setup took some digging. Basically, I set up a new contact called ‘voicemail’ that dials my own number to access VM. I don’t mind there not being an active notification. I check VM, Signal and Proton a couple of times a day, when it suits my mood, and that suffices
  6. I downloaded OpenMTP, from github, to support file transfer to/from Mac OSX

There may be times when I miss the power and convenience of my iPhone 16 Pro Max, but I already feel a little calmer as intrusions into my life have decreased substantially.

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@derfeznoj Thank you for sharing such a thoughtful review! We’re so glad to hear that Mudita Kompakt is helping bring a bit more calm and control to your digital life. Your approach truly reflects the spirit of mindful tech use.

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@derfeznoj: Mudita should be able to enable long-pressing [1] to reach voicemail, as has been discussed in other posts.

Meanwhile, I posted something similar about reaching my Mint Mobile voicemail until Mudita gives us this basic feature.

My variation on your approach is that I created a contact called “Mint Mobile Voicemail” but did NOT assign my telephone number (TN) to it.

Instead, I assigned to it Mint’s voicemail TN: 805-637-7456.

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What’s interesting, in my specific case that baffled Mint Mobile tech support, is when I activated my Mint SIM, VM was automatically configured and pointed to UltraMobile VM services. Mint tech support tried to reset/clear the account but that didn’t work. I’m not sure why they advised me to dial my own number for VM, although that is the way it worked with my Spectrum land line.

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