Bored of Lemmy, close Lemmy, stare at screen, open Lemmy
Same 😂
literally
"The modern internet consists of five massive websites, the content of each are screenshots from the other four."
wheres that from
A talk I watched about "enshittification" on YouTube. Not an exact quote, but it resonates and I wanted to make it clear it's not from my smooth brain.
EDIT: Here it is. My man wears a mask the whole time, which is distracting, but he's got things to say.
I've been playing this in a browser in my phone. Drop the fruits on each other to make bigger fruit and get a high score:
Edit: dare you to beat my high score
I love this, thanks for sharing! Already blew 15 min on this lol
Ayy thanks, got to 1400
I got 2632... for some reason uploading a 9kb jpg and it says it is too large... wtf...
But yeah, this game is awesome, thanks! The feeling of about to die and then boom, first watermelon ever is pretty amazing!
That's awesome! Nice job
I got 2220 https://playsuikagame.com/
2288 oh my god it’s fun and I normally suck at spatial puzzle games like these
Like I’m absolutely painfully dog water at Tetris
oh no
2514 😎
Nice
1280
I defeated you but it was on https://suikagameonline.com , because this website has no disruptive ads while I play.
Weird, I never get ads, but I'm glad you beat it! Nice job
Every time I unlock my phone I:
- Check WhatsApp
- Check Discord
- Check Mail
- Scroll Lemmy for about hour
- Read a post I want to help
- Go down at least 3 different rabbit holes at once for the next 2 hours
- Give up
- Close Lemmy
- Don't know what to do
- Open Lemmy
- See no new posts
- Close Lemmy
- repeat until I turn my phone off
When I open my phone, I look at a couple of things like news / weather / Lemmy, and then in about 5-10 minutes I'm done taking a dump and I put the phone away until I get a message.
Most of the time I don't use a smartphone for the Internet, it's just my pocket messenger device.
Discord
better foss frontend: https://github.com/SpacingBat3/WebCord
There's always gaming or joining a cult.. Or you could do both by getting into Minecraft 🤷
Especially modded minecraft
It's like crack
Have you tried knitting?
Y'all don't know/remember the struggle. My "apps" used to be 2 or 3 forums -- and not particularly active forums, at that -- that I would check repeatedly, all day long, during downtime at work. Posts and comments were rare.
I do not miss those days.
I don't even understand why people want to look at phone apps all day. I hate browsing the Internet on a phone screen usually, it's so inferior to having a monitor, mouse, and keyboard.
I mean if you're at work or whatever and you're bored, I can see wasting time on phone apps, but any other time I don't. But of course if you don't have a computer you can't just use the computer you don't have.
Ah yes the 'hi guys I have a problem with this program and it's doing this any solutions?' And then you would have a reply maybe in a week or with bad luck a month. I'd usually just go to a IRC chatroom and ask it there.
Even worse when you see every post incremented by one or more. Either a racist troll had stumbled their way in or an ad-bot was spam posting. Either way, took a few days for the mods to get around to cleaning it up. Passwords for every board was the only way to slow it down. They were not the good old days.
I picked up a Solitaire app. ScreenTime says I played 6.5 hours last week.
me at work rn 🙄
Check them again ten minutes later.
The last one is always github trends. If you end up there, no luck for you then. Go cook something or go outside
- Mastodon
- Lemmy
- Idk, email?...
- ...
- Porn
fyi: there's an unofficial app for nhentai.
To quote from back in the time of those good ol‘ telltale games:
Will remember that
not sure why but my mental health gets way better when i use my laptop.
im a zoomer so i started out on a phone and only got a laptop a few years ago, i thnk it might be because everytime i opened my phone i would just rot away and i just go back to those habits whenever i use my phone. when i started using a laptop my entire schedule changed and updated(for the better). and having a slow laptop is prob also good to avoid wasting too much time on video games lmao
I don't know about you, but it seems to me that phone OSes and apps are designed to steal our attention at all the times. I find it hard to do stuff while receiving notifications here and there, or even knowing that a new notification may pop up at any time. If fells like trying to do something while someone is watching and poking me all the time.
Gen Z here, I actually had the exact opposite problem. I don't really use a smartphone now, but when I did use it daily, while I could get into some article rabbitholes, it was never to a painful extent. Probably because the phone is small and not at all comfortable to interact with long-term. But when I am on the laptop - I often lose track of time spent on IRC, youtube and newsfeeds. I now try to strictly limit the time to only what's needed (unless IRC has a conversation that is really relevant for me), and download most articles onto an E-reader for a less painful experience.
I only have Lemmy and Youtube. I'm actually trying to get off Youtube, those shorts are rotting my brain. I tried deleting the app but my Pixel won't let me.
YouTube shorts I could understand. But I love using it for channels that have quality 5 to 10 minute content and I don't feel like it's as much a waste of my time as shorts. Legal Eagle, Hot Ones, Tom Scott, Some More News, You Suck At Cooking, Let's Game it Out. There are some gems out there.
5 to 10 minutes is a bit too short for comfort tbh. If the content is good, the joy is slightly poisoned by the fact that there was so little of it. IMO the comfortable video length is 30 to 50 minutes, which is a far more enjoyable experience (with 1-2 hours if it's a podcast).
I still like Youtube, I watch it on my TV all the time. It's only a problem on my phone because I would turn my phone screen on, go to Youtube Shorts without even thinking, and end up wasting 30+ minutes at a time. I hate how effective short form videos are on me, It's just so easy to keep going. On my TV, I only watch normal length videos that I search for, I don't mind those.
Lemmy, YouTube, and a podcast app for me.
There's still great content on YouTube, but I also understand if people boycott the site for moral/personal reasons.
I think Youtube Revanced let's you disable shorts.
Newpipe doesn't display them at all, and is much lighter than revanced.
Use ADB to actually uninstall it using a computer.
I wiped everything from my Samsung phone, even google stuff then installed what I wanted afterwards.
https://www.xda-developers.com/uninstall-carrier-oem-bloatware-without-root-access/
Block youtube via dns or an app.
Use ADB to uninstall it from a computer.
I wiped everything from my Samsung phone, even google stuff then installed what I wanted afterwards.
https://www.xda-developers.com/uninstall-carrier-oem-bloatware-without-root-access/
I used to still read Reddit through Narwhal, but a this weekend they cut off free access.
So now I am down to two apps, Lemmy and Youtube...
Make one of those apps Wikipedia and you won't have that issue
meditate, idk? the crud I read always bubbles back up then & I can chew on it more & even get more out of it (c.f. rotating a cow in your mind) & eventually the thought of something fun to do takes over & then I don’t need the garbage feeds anymore. Free dopamine!
The five apps for me are probably:
- Lemmy
- Mastodon
- Discord
- HN
- My school portal (bruh)
Yo whats HN?
hacker news
5? Wtf?
Time to play Core Keeper.
I tried a while ago, but didn't enjoy it. It felt very barren. Do you play solo or with someone?
To be honest, this is the sixth time I've come across this post today.
As of now, nothing can be confirmed. Try it with bad ice cream
Has been reduced to 2 apps for me after I got banned from reddit and I decided to quit xitter
There is low and low, extremely no contents in lemmy,mstdn compare to reddit,twitter. I almost feeled empty here.
I used to top-mod a 1000+ members subreddit before I got banned and I think the forced break is good for my mental healh. It certainly is a huge difference for mem
Sure I got banned for absolute bullshit reasons (I said "Men will blame everything before admitting that toxic masculinity is the source of their misery" and some incel reported that so I got permabanned lmao) but at the end of the day, it allows me to focus more on my own mental health and real life.
That’s easy. Rinse, repeat.
This is like the fifth time I see this post today
If you’re bored get the star realms app. It’s fun
