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Re: A guide to reduce screen time

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Post by nullderef »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #20
nullderef wrote: post #2

Another tip is that even HN has some screen time features. If you go to your profile, you can play around with the "noprocrast", "maxvisit", and "minaway" options. When noprocrast is on, you may only view HN for maxvisit minutes at a time, and must stay away for minaway minutes before returning. (taken from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3677504 )

I find that it's hard to waste time on HN after your first salvo of the day since the day's frontpage topics are kinda set early on and they change pretty slowly. (Unless, of course, someone is wrong about one of Your Topics and needs your corrections throughout the day.) And I don't see the point of going past the frontpage unless you want to bicker with someone on yesterday's topics that nobody will ever see. So ju…

I've had issues with checking HN every too often. News overload is definitely a problem, too. It's also fun to go check the new posts sometimes.

Re: A guide to reduce screen time

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Post by hombre_fatal »

nullderef wrote: post #21
hombre_fatal wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find that it's hard to waste time on HN after your first salvo of the day since the day's frontpage topics are kinda set early on and they change pretty slowly. (Unless, of course, someone is wrong about one of Your Topics and needs your corrections throughout the day.) And I don't see the point of going past the frontpage unless you want to bicker with someone on yesterday's topics that nobody will ever see. So ju…

I've had issues with checking HN every too often. News overload is definitely a problem, too. It's also fun to go check the new posts sometimes.

Yeah I went to my comment history after writing that and clearly I'm full of crap.

Re: A guide to reduce screen time

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Post by metalman »

I have gone in a slightly different direction, where I use my device to sell goods and services, and aquire parts,components, and specific information to facilitate my selling, and the maintanence and upgradeing of my own personal things. Also I use my screen time to seek out real world events and activities. This has led me to have expectations, as to what I get, as a real reward, and, also forces me to follow through with comitments made on line, in the real.world, therfor the whole thing, becomes self regualating.

Re: A guide to reduce screen time

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Post by master-lincoln »

Title talks about screentime, but article only focuses on mobile phones and doom scrolling. I was surprised to see the recommendation of max 2h screen time per day for an adult at the bottom. The link leads to a page not mentioning this though.

I spend already ~5h staring at screens for work. At home my biggest screen time is watching videos on TV. I don't think I ever doom-scrolled on my phone. I do read lots of news articles on it though. Article seems to not be addressing people like me.

Re: A guide to reduce screen time

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Post by lotophage »

Gasp0de wrote: post #18

I already moved away from the reddit app, but now I have the problem that I can not set up time-based constraints that don't block the rest of the browser.

I've used NextDNS.io in the past and setup schedules to block the reddit domain during work hours.

The problem that I found is that sometimes it's not just a place of procrastination but the place you want to search for a useful answer to your question.

Re: A guide to reduce screen time

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Post by nullderef »

master-lincoln wrote: post #24

Title talks about screentime, but article only focuses on mobile phones and doom scrolling. I was surprised to see the recommendation of max 2h screen time per day for an adult at the bottom. The link leads to a page not mentioning this though. I spend already ~5h staring at screens for work. At home my biggest screen time is watching videos on TV. I don't think I ever doom-scrolled on my phone. I do read lots of new…

The link mentions: "Health experts say screen time at home should be limited to two hours or less a day" -- https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/wecan/reduce-sc...

Maybe doomscrolling is reading too many news for you? Or do you think it's not too excessive?

Re: A guide to reduce screen time

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Post by codethief »

Which Android apps for limiting screen time does the HN crowd recommend? Is there one that doesn't sell your data or request network access? (Ideally of course the app would be open-source but I'm not getting my hopes up.)

I've been wanting to try Digital Wellbeing but it looks like it's still not available for non-Google devices. Or at least it's shown as "not compatible" when accessing the Play Store from GrapheneOS.

Re: A guide to reduce screen time

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Post by yunwal »

StefanBatory wrote: post #13
Funes- wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I replaced staring at my screen with staring at wall or just sleeping So you just tried to replace your compulsive use of your devices with nothing, like the poster you replied to advised against. Great.

Yeah, which is I'm saying that's why you should listen to the poster above - to prove their point. Unless I wrote it in a confusing way, in which case I do apologise

“Been there, done that” usually implies that it didn’t work or that you’re repeating old, no longer useful information.
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