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.
bruhh nice one! Saw it, played it, and one hour passed by!
Anyways, I also have an interesting game to share yall lemmies. Just a shooter game but I swear I'm addicted to it, ngl any game with simple gameplay like this have something that make me can't stop playing. Bet some of you have played it before (it's kinda popular tho) Here's the link:
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.
It's great. I started working in the factory in 2015. Don't have to play that many other games anymore and runs well on older hardware. It has saved me a lot of money because of these 2 reasons.
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 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.
It's much easier to use touch than a mouse? Swipe keyboard are almost faster. And apps are just a more minimalist version of a desktop site. All the content, none of the clutter. I despised Reddit on my laptop.
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.
You should try gReader paired with Innorader for back end sync. It's dope AF. Also good recommendation on the mastodon app. Rocking Sync and Boost.
Fair Mail, so I never have to open Gmail on my phone.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/74bkUkVGvgg?si=CUOds38m9zd-n_zm
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
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:
https://suikagame.com/
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
1040
1044 haha get in
1660 🪑
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
2514 😎
Nice
1280
oh no
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
Weird, I never get ads, but I'm glad you beat it! Nice job
bruhh nice one! Saw it, played it, and one hour passed by!
Anyways, I also have an interesting game to share yall lemmies. Just a shooter game but I swear I'm addicted to it, ngl any game with simple gameplay like this have something that make me can't stop playing. Bet some of you have played it before (it's kinda popular tho) Here's the link:
https://getawayshootout.io/
You're welcome.
Every time I unlock my phone I:
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.
better foss frontend: https://github.com/SpacingBat3/WebCord
Better not use it at all
Can't convince my normie friends to do that
if people are going to use it, best they use a frontend
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 considered Factorio?
I hadn't heard about it before but it looks interesting!
Well RIP your sanity and free time. You're going to wake up a few weeks from now after having nightmares about unsaturated belts.
ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
It's great. I started working in the factory in 2015. Don't have to play that many other games anymore and runs well on older hardware. It has saved me a lot of money because of these 2 reasons.
Minecraft is boring 🥵
I agree, but to each their own 🤷 It was kind of a joke suggestion anyway 😁
If you aren't yet, I recommend playing Baldurs Gate 3. Everyone should, whether they're normally into RPGs or not. It's THAT good 😁
I loved that and BG2 so much when they first came out 25-30 years ago! They were amongst my formative gaming experiences ❤️
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.
It's much easier to use touch than a mouse? Swipe keyboard are almost faster. And apps are just a more minimalist version of a desktop site. All the content, none of the clutter. I despised Reddit on my laptop.
Absolutely not. Mouse and keyboard are FAR faster than anything you can do on a touch screen.
I'll take you on in a typing contest if you disagree. I can type about 90 WPM on keyboard.
EDIT: I overestimated my typing speed. 64 WPM on my first and only try on typingtest dot com -
Um, ok calm down. I was only making a theory.
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.
so you would have 1 weird guy reply after a few hours while 10000 other people just watched...
Usually also in the trend of 'i have this too, how to fix it?'
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 🙄
The last one is always github trends. If you end up there, no luck for you then. Go cook something or go outside
Check them again ten minutes later.
Email, Feedly, Megalodon, Voyager
1 app missing... Maybe vimusic...
Cornhub
MournHub, for sexy widows
You should try gReader paired with Innorader for back end sync. It's dope AF. Also good recommendation on the mastodon app. Rocking Sync and Boost. Fair Mail, so I never have to open Gmail on my phone.
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
Revanced
Do Not Disturb would work better for that issue. Revanced is good though. +1
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.
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.
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.
That's definitely not a you problem. I've been stuck watching the most pointless shorts on Snapchat with oddly satisfying videos.
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.
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/
Similar to Suika, but with an original twist and fully offline:
2050
Make one of those apps Wikipedia and you won't have that issue
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...
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:
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?
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.
Man they will ban you for anything nowadays, safe space bs is becoming too fragile for all of these normie socials
That’s easy. Rinse, repeat.
This is like the fifth time I see this post today
To be honest, this is the sixth time I've come across this post today.
If you’re bored get the star realms app. It’s fun