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For iOS, Screenzen is an app that does this: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/screenzen-screen-time-control/...

At the risk of being trite, your comment did make me think of the line from the end of The Lorax: “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. …

Any advice for finding quality Discord servers (things like ideal member count / “red flags” etc)? I feel like I have a lot of trouble finding servers that strike a good balance of…

Forgive me if this is covered in his argument since I haven’t read it yet, but does he discuss why this same argument wouldn’t apply to biological brains?

Haha, I haven’t seen a callback to Unidan in a long while — I still think about this copypasta whenever I see people talking about crows online.

Hello! I suppose more than anything recently I’ve really been trying to improve and increase my social relationships, which I feel like I’ve left too long by the wayside. It has be…

Gotcha, in that case I’m definitely with you there; I don’t agree with how the author tries to tie all these things together and blame them on the usual suspects of “screen time,” …

Our voice communication software isn’t even near equivalent to in-person voice communication yet, and it is rather mature technology at this point. Consider how much easier an in-p…

I agree that the blogger doesn’t give anything close to a thoughtful or meaningful solution, but I don’t agree that it’s a pseudo-problem. Anecdotally, from every person I have spo…

It seems to be using the system setting, since on my phone it opened to dark mode by default.

The strength of light over a distance obeys an inverse square law[1], causing it to effectively lose power over long distances, since the same amount of energy is being spread over…

Valve seems to have an interesting solution of their own to this problem, which is just to not tell anyone that they’re working on a game until it’s basically done. This removes th…

On the other hand, though, how much more expensive might it be if only single-family homes were available?

I do personally. I use Fira with ligatures enabled in any editor I can, and I find that the ligatures help me to be able to quickly scan and understand code better than I could oth…

You might be thinking of https://12ft.io/ ?

> You can also have specialized "sleeper cars" that get you to your destination overnight, fresh and ready. Trains have had this capability for decades, and that is a very mature t…