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My Struggle with Doom Scrolling

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Re: My Struggle with Doom Scrolling

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Post by golergka »

swatcoder wrote: post #241
yagyu wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Second this. I ended up building a nice charging station right near the entrance. It has storage for keys, wallet, and other things to grab when heading out. It has an abundance of wired and wireless chargers for all devices. Then I got a dumb (but nice) alarm clock for the bedroom. Then I noticed that a common reason to pick up the phone is to check the calendar. I ended up hanging a monitor on the wall, displaying…

> to check the calendar. I ended up hanging a monitor on the wall, displaying the family month/agenda calendars I hear the ancients had their own crude technology for this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_(stationery)

This one will not display an invitation that was in an email you forgot to even open.

Re: My Struggle with Doom Scrolling

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golergka wrote: post #261
swatcoder wrote: post #241

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> to check the calendar. I ended up hanging a monitor on the wall, displaying the family month/agenda calendars I hear the ancients had their own crude technology for this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_(stationery)

This one will not display an invitation that was in an email you forgot to even open.

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Re: My Struggle with Doom Scrolling

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Post by golergka »

Weird — it seems that "doomscrolling" is used here just to describe regular social media addiction.

For me, "doom" scrolling is what you do when there's actual doom. When there's a terror attack and you don't know if you your close ones are safe, when there's a coup, when another war in one of your countries starts. You're horrified as hell, but you can't actually do anything useful, so you are glued to the "scroll": news, hearsay, and all the images and videos that you really should not be looking at for the sake of your own mental health.

Re: My Struggle with Doom Scrolling

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Post by swatcoder »

golergka wrote: post #261
swatcoder wrote: post #241

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> to check the calendar. I ended up hanging a monitor on the wall, displaying the family month/agenda calendars I hear the ancients had their own crude technology for this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_(stationery)

This one will not display an invitation that was in an email you forgot to even open.

That sounds like a great feature to me

Re: My Struggle with Doom Scrolling

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Post by dredmorbius »

marliechiller wrote: post #245
skeeter2020 wrote: post #234

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or buy a day planner for $3. or print a weekly TODO list and mark it up with pen/pencil

great until I add something to my digital calendar when im out and I forget to update it, or my wife adds something to her calendar and doesnt use the shared calendar :/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42798865>

(Final 'graph especially.)

Addresses your first point.

For the second: communication.

Re: My Struggle with Doom Scrolling

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Post by hirvi74 »

annjose wrote: post #257

I can totally relate to this feeling of frustration with doom scrolling - I was in the same boat a few months ago, especially with YouTube. Fortunately, I managed to break free from the cycle by tweaking a few settings in YT itself (no special browser extensions needed). These are the changes that helped me: Main settings that gave me a starting point: 1. Uninstalled YouTube app and now using only the browser version…

Oddly enough, a big help for me has been not using an adblocker for sites like Youtube. I can only watch so much before I just become enraged by the sheer number of ads in a 20 minute video that I just rage quit the app.

Re: My Struggle with Doom Scrolling

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Post by yagyu »

hbn wrote: post #238
hammock wrote: post #204

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What alarm clock did you get? Curious And great insight about the calendar. That's the #1 reason why I keep my phone near me (thereby facilitating all the unwanted behaviors)

Not the GP but I use a simple wake up light alarm that was a game-changer for me in winters when a blaring alarm yanking me awake to a pitch-black room was not a great way to start the day, especially before going out into the -40° cold to scrape my car off. A half hour before the alarm goes off, it slowly gets brighter which I find simulates the sun rising enough to be a more pleasant waking experience. Plus I set t…

To answer the q above, this is what we have, too.

Re: My Struggle with Doom Scrolling

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Post by yagyu »

swatcoder wrote: post #241
yagyu wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Second this. I ended up building a nice charging station right near the entrance. It has storage for keys, wallet, and other things to grab when heading out. It has an abundance of wired and wireless chargers for all devices. Then I got a dumb (but nice) alarm clock for the bedroom. Then I noticed that a common reason to pick up the phone is to check the calendar. I ended up hanging a monitor on the wall, displaying…

> to check the calendar. I ended up hanging a monitor on the wall, displaying the family month/agenda calendars I hear the ancients had their own crude technology for this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_(stationery)

You come off as snarky, but I kind of agree. We tried this first.

It turns out digital collaborative calendars are pretty great for us in general, there is no chance in hell I could keep the analog one up to date, so it was definitely worth having a screen on the wall.

Re: My Struggle with Doom Scrolling

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grumblingdev wrote: post #255

There is a big opportunity for someone to make a all encompassing blocker. I am yet to find one. I think everyone is struggling with this in some way. Anytime I get setup with a blocker it helps heaps. But I always slip back in. Every source of useful information (Reddit, YouTube) comes with toxic clickbait that you cannot disable. I realized that my addiction is to the point that I cannot reason my way out of it. Th…

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Re: My Struggle with Doom Scrolling

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Post by phatfish »

malfist wrote: post #215
bloopernova wrote: post #151

Reading on an e-ink device has kept me somewhat sane over the past 12 months. It's still very tempting to just "hop on reddit and see what's there" or "I'll just check bluesky for..." Then it's 2 hours later and you're angry and despondent. I've found that having no social media apps on my phone has helped. It also helps to stick to just Firefox+ublock on Android and resist every time a site tries to install an app.…

I hear you about amygdala-bait. Back when reddit had third party clients, I used RIF and it let you block subreddits from showing up in /r/all, and so I blocked hundreds of subreddits. Anything that seemed focused on ragebait got blocked. Made reddit's /r/all mostly about interesting new things or funny memes. When reddit banned third party clients, I logged out and have never logged back in. I don't really miss it,…

I also unhooked from Reddit when the API changes killed the 3rd party apps. Was a helpful motivator. Only use it now when it comes up while searching.
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