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Here are some things I try: Turn off Notifications. Turn off location services except when navigating or calling the taxi. Uninstall as many apps as possible, use browser. Use adblocking anti tracking browser (I use Duck, alt suggestions welcome). Report unknown / unwanted senders as spam. That said, I am a NEWS ADDICT. There are four world leaders whose downfall I eagerly await, and frequently check the news for thi…
Putin
Trump
Xi
Modi
Here are some things I try: Turn off Notifications. Turn off location services except when navigating or calling the taxi. Uninstall as many apps as possible, use browser. Use adblocking anti tracking browser (I use Duck, alt suggestions welcome). Report unknown / unwanted senders as spam. That said, I am a NEWS ADDICT. There are four world leaders whose downfall I eagerly await, and frequently check the news for thi…
Why are people not guessing Putin Trump Xi Modi
Trump
Fico
Erdogan
For me, adaptive friction has been very helpful - allow access to distracting apps/sites, but make them progressively harder to use. For phones, ScreenZen is great at this. Makes you pause before visiting an app or site, and you can configure the pause to grow each time you use it. You can also set a timeout on the app. Very flexible settings. For desktop, I recently built a free browser extension called MooBlock - i…
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How did that person who uploaded the YouTube video figure it out? They didn't have a video to watch. So why couldn't you? I'd say it's more of specific hypothetical, and I don't understand how one couldn't read about a fuse on a forum or in a manual and diagnose with a DMM. Sure, YouTube is convenient because we are all out of time, all the time. It's also a further reflection of how helpless we have become with rega…
>How did that person who uploaded the YouTube video figure it out? They didn't have a video to watch. He spent a month trying different repairs (replacing pump, etc) that didn't work and then finally stumbled onto the electrical relay as the root cause. This is the deep link to the video I used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gm_2qISYvk&t=2m41s >So why couldn't you? Maybe I eventually could have fixed it if I spent…
Putting in blockers and the like helps, but what I've found worked best was to consider this quote by Anthony DeMello: "When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power." When I learned to stop feeling bad/guilty/thinking this was a problem to solve and just let my mind drift, I found that my mind naturally learned when it was disciplined work time vs. browse…
You have to practice taking a step back, assesing the current situation and determining what's best for you. Ideally do this every time you feel like mindlessly doomscrolling. You'll get better at it.
Here are some things I try: Turn off Notifications. Turn off location services except when navigating or calling the taxi. Uninstall as many apps as possible, use browser. Use adblocking anti tracking browser (I use Duck, alt suggestions welcome). Report unknown / unwanted senders as spam. That said, I am a NEWS ADDICT. There are four world leaders whose downfall I eagerly await, and frequently check the news for thi…
or don't! instead use
Peel (Geckoview)
https://github.com/mazzz1y/peel
WebSpace
https://github.com/theoden8/webspace_app
Native Alpha
This is absolutely what I need. I was so shocked when I checked my screen time and saw how many hours I've wasted on those "stupid" apps. But I am also hesitated to try that because of FOMO. What if my friends talk about some trendy/funny on the Internet but I can't catch up/follow?
An addict with addict friends needs to find non addicted friends to escape the addiction.
Firefox already includes a better version of this: Settings → Fonts → Advanced settings → untick Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above.
It makes the web much better. Firefox even includes a list of icon font names that will be permitted (pref browser.display.use_document_fonts.icon_font_allowlist) to minimise icon font breakage, though I chose to block font loading altogether and there’s not often much trouble from it (and most of it is Google’s, and Material Icons’ ligation technique is in practice so dumb, achieving results quite the opposite of the original reason for the technique in an entirely predictable way).
> I need colors for code
Quite honestly, try doing without it for a while and see how it goes. Make a new theme that’s limited to just black on white, with regular/bold/italic font styles (me, I did keywords bold and comments and macro stuff italic and that was all), and use it for a week. Then consider if you want colours, and how to add them. Me, I went to strings red and comments green and numbers blue and not much else, though it’s grown a little over time. Others add greys, and perhaps background shading.