On my family's iPhones, we have a Shortcut (automation) that kicks in every evening at 9 pm: 1. Turn Mobile Data Off 2. Turn Bluetooth Off 3. Turn WiFi Off 4. Turn AppleTV off (this one is fun because it can cut off a show mid-sentence) 5. Set brightness to 10%. Then, a reverse of the above at 6am the following day. Normal phone signal is still enabled for any emergency calls, but most apps become useless without the…
Android user here. Is this something built into iOS or do you use an app for that?
I think that there are a lot of issues with the way Duolingo motives people through unhealthy incentives, but research does show that it works. Though it will need to be used in conjunction with other methods of learning to be truly helpful. But then, why would you learn a language if you’re not going to actively use it? https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379288394_The_Effec...
No, research doesn't show that it works. That research you link has been conducted by Xiangying Jiang and Bozena Pajak (first and last authors). If you want to contact them about how totally objective and unbiased they are, here are their emails: xiangying@duolingo.com bozena@duolingo.com
Don't forget the second author, ryanpeters@duolingo.com!
"Instead, we suggest engaging in a lifestyle medicine activity upon waking to promote whole-body health" For me, keeping a book next to my phone has been a game changer. We recently built a whole feature in our screen time app around this concept. When we onboard users we ask them to select a number of "scroll replacements" — these are simple things you can substitute for scrolling, like going outside or reading. The…
Do you have plans to release an Android version of your app, as well?
> excessive screen time, defined as more than two hours a day outside of work hours. Having read Michel Desmurget's "La Fabrique du crétin digital", this sentence was moderately triggering. Has anyone here read it? I don't know if it's been translated to English yet, and I know it received some very bitter reviews [which mostly seemed beside the picture he was trying to construct from the studies he used, it seemed t…
"La Fabrique du crétin digital" was translated to English as "Screen Damage": https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61723668-screen-damage Here is an interesting review: https://www.frontiere.eu/children-and-excessive-smartphone-u...
Adult here that NEVER used any kind of mobile phone/tablet- never even had a flip/dumb phone. I do programming amongst other creative computer based things- the thing I've noticed between me and the normal phone/tablet human- is the ability to focus. I can focus for hours, weeks, months, years on tasks etc. Everyone around me feels like focus wimps- they focus for 15 minutes or an hour and are proud of themselves and…
While incredible sounding to never use a mobile phone I find it hard to believe given societal restraints. It’s more common than no that homeless people have a cellphone, at least in westernized countries. This is because phones are seen as a basic need.
How is it possible you could make by as a working professional without ever using a mobile phone?
My wife complains that I take my kindle to the bathroom and will read on the way and back. I'm nowhere near as addicted to my phone though.
To be fair, pre-kindle we used to have a stack of magazines in the bathroom for toilet reading. And my chess instructor used to assign what he called "toilet puzzles", or chess puzzles that were thoughtless enough to be done on the can (as compared to the "actual" homework puzzles which were more cognitively demanding and required dedicated work) So it was definitely a thing pre-modern-tech too. Plenty of people used…
Oh yeah, in my parents house there were always magazines and comic books for toilet reading. We had a full shelf behind the toilet... So, yeah I guess I'm just continuing the trend :)
Yes this sort of logic always maddens me. And it has extended to medicine for sure. Simplifying "screen time" as if what type of screen, the size of the screen, brightness, and what you are doing on it are insignificant. Anecdotally I had a "sleep specialist" actually give "no screens before bed" as medical advice. So what am I supposed to do- stare at the wall and think about if I'll be able to sleep? Reading a book…
Two things work for me, either reading on my phone (I have a support thing) with the eye shield to avoid the blue light or listening to music until I feel sleepy enough to stop.
When it comes to bedtime reading, I found that nothing beats an OLED smartphone so long as you can fully control the brightness and the colors; e.g. a reading app that lets you set whatever you want - i.e. not Kindle - or else things like "color calibration" in GrapheneOS. That way, you can set the text to dull orange or red and dial the brightness very low. With OLED, the blacks are basically non-emissive, so the whole thing can be made extremely little light. This works even better if you gradually dial it down as your eyes get accommodated.
On my family's iPhones, we have a Shortcut (automation) that kicks in every evening at 9 pm: 1. Turn Mobile Data Off 2. Turn Bluetooth Off 3. Turn WiFi Off 4. Turn AppleTV off (this one is fun because it can cut off a show mid-sentence) 5. Set brightness to 10%. Then, a reverse of the above at 6am the following day. Normal phone signal is still enabled for any emergency calls, but most apps become useless without the…
Android user here. Is this something built into iOS or do you use an app for that?
Your perceived inability to follow the advice because you live too close to the poles does not mean the advice itself is wrong, and definitely doesn't mean it's stupid. Many people in similar climates to you use sun lamps during winter, for example.
It's not wrong, but I still think it's stupid, because of how it's normally stated. I've never heard it presented as "if your location allows it" or "We understand that that isn't an option for large parts of the world so here an alternative". People have been living in this part of the world for thousands of years, without sun lamps, it might be good if you can get it, but sun light first thing in the morning certai…
If I say "it's good to go running a few times a week", do I need to provide alternate advice for people with no legs? Or if I say "a low-sodium diet is healthier", do I need to specify that if you're getting cramps you should go eat some electrolytes? Is the advice bad if I don't cover every single edge case?