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YouTube addiction, one month sober

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Post by asciimov »

phone8675309 wrote: post #225
xetplan wrote: post #219

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No, this is just completely wrong and ridiculous. People did this all the time until txting was common. Once txt was common there was no reason to just drop by someone's place randomly without giving them a heads up.

What makes your lived experience more correct than the lived experience of my grandparents and parents who lived in the time? Once the telephone was popular in the US this was something that people in our circle just stopped doing. All it took was a 30 second phone call to say "hey, can if I head over if you're not busy?" (and the answer was almost always yes, I'll agree that is likely different than today) to make s…

It’s neat how there can be vast differences both regionally and within social circles. Here in Texas (I’ve been in central, west, and panhandle) dropping by was common through even the mid-2000s. While I don’t do this much anymore, for my parents and their friend groups it is still done.

Of course there are some unwritten rules and some people that you do call ahead, but for many it’s still an acceptable practice.

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Post by diimdeep »

tomlue wrote: post #6
Waterluvian wrote: post #3

Not to downplay the levels of addiction and how challenging it can really be for many. But one thing I've done recently is use `AdGuard` on my iPhone to begin blocking specific domains that distract me too much, and it was amazing how in a few of those cases, the problem just went away immediately. I was expecting it to be a fools' errand to be my own gatekeeper. But just getting a "page won't load" error a few times…

I made the habitbreaker chrome extension on this principle. It just blocks user selected websites for 30 seconds before loading. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/habitbreaker/kgioba... The idea is just to defuse instant gratification. Works pretty well for me.

found src, https://github.com/tomlue/habitbreaker will see if it is compatible with firefox

here is two more extensions, one for youtube and another to block social network feeds

https://github.com/AlexisDrain/Less-Addictive-YouTube https://github.com/jordwest/news-feed-eradicator

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Post by JohnBooty »

AbstractH24 wrote: post #230
JohnBooty wrote: post #164

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Does anyone else feel conflicted about the internet as both a means to a comfortable/lucretive career but also the ultimate drug? yeah. it's like, hey, the only thing i'm good at (software engineering) is intimately tied to an always-on connection to an infinite distraction machine i mean obviously i mitigate it as much as possible (blocking sites, etc) but daaaaaaaamn. what a fundamentally tricky tension.

It's interesting; I'd never say that about chefs or folks in the restaurant industry. Plenty of other unhealthy habits in that line of work, don't get me wrong. But little association between the pleasures of food and making the food.

Yeah in most restaurants you can't just start randomly eating food, in the way that you can just start randomly surfin' tha web in software engineering.
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