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We Have Reached Peak Screen. Now Revolution Is in the Air

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Re: We Have Reached Peak Screen. Now Revolution Is in the Air

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Post by criddell »

magic_beans wrote: post #68
Nasrudith wrote: post #64

I know that I am not the typical use case for several reasons including the failure of voice recognition with speech impediments but I doubt voice will be the way forward any more than smart watches were - being niche at best. First off with speech everyone can tell what you are doing and it is obtrusive - look at the old DMV signs against cellphones back from when they could literally just call. Second it is just pl…

I’m positive Google Glass was just released at the wrong moment to the worst possible people. AR is the next wave. The question is when.

For me, it's when AR doesn't require glasses.

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Post by Infernal »

ShabbosGoy wrote: post #59
sshtunnels wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It may sound strange, but I found it very funny. I've had the same thoughts myself. As someone who sometimes worries a bit too much about making the best life choices, it's darkly funny to think that for all my planning, I'll probably find a way to regret and hate my attempts at thoughtful and wise decisionmaking in the future no matter what path I choose.

I also found it funny. As someone who overanalyzes things constantly, I often get into thought loops that lead to regret before I’ve even taken an action.

"Don't forget to regret all the time you now feel that you wasted in your analysis!"

-My Brain

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Post by codethief »

pcprincipal wrote: post #57

I've been using Moment ( https://inthemoment.io/ ) for about a year and am really proud of how I've been able to reduce total screen time from 4 hours to 45 minutes per day. Most of the gains were due to deleting Safari and Twitter from my device (Moment breaks down app usage based on battery usage). To anyone reading this, be aware of how grabbing your phone in the morning to read headlines or Medium digest can turn…

Can anyone recommend an app for Android which does the same thing as Moment and is effective? (Not that I don't know any apps that offer similar functionality but so far none of them has really convinced me / worked.)

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Post by gnicholas »

pcprincipal wrote: post #57

I've been using Moment ( https://inthemoment.io/ ) for about a year and am really proud of how I've been able to reduce total screen time from 4 hours to 45 minutes per day. Most of the gains were due to deleting Safari and Twitter from my device (Moment breaks down app usage based on battery usage). To anyone reading this, be aware of how grabbing your phone in the morning to read headlines or Medium digest can turn…

I'd be curious to know if reducing your mobile screen time has led to an increase in your desktop screen time. That is, if you're not looking at email on your phone, presumably you look at it later on the computer.

Is it the same for news reading, or do you just read less news these days?

Even if reducing mobile screen time leads to some increase in desktop screen time, it could still be a good thing for social conventions and quality face to face interactions. I'm just curious about whether we're reducing screen time overall, or just shifting it from mobile/interrupted to desktop/purposeful.

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Post by Adamantcheese »

plurgid wrote: post #45

I say I'm a musician on the side, but truthfully I've been messing with sound instinctively since I came out of the womb, and I only picked up programming and design and stuff later on. As such, I gravitated toward electronic music doodads almost immediately. This issue of "falling down the LCD well" has been at the forefront of electronic music for a while. Synthesizers were cool in the 70's because they had knobs,…

I'm somewhat sad that modular synthesizers are so expensive, even semimodular standalone units. They're really fun pieces of equipment to play with.

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Post by thaumaturgy »

LUmBULtERA wrote: post #15
dictum wrote: post #10

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> I have to change careers to selling ice creams at the beach or something You will learn to loathe ice cream, the beach, and even the nicest people you could see there. (Quoth Kierkegaard: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7141047-marry-and-you-will-... )

That was a depressing quote.

It's a nonsense quote.

Regret is the essence of expecting your past self to know the things that only your present self knows.

As long as you don't make a habit of doing things you know in advance that you will regret, then you have nothing to regret at all: all your experiences, good-bad-and-otherwise, make you into the person you are.

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Post by heurist »

basejumping wrote: post #26
elorant wrote: post #9

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That's why I don't own a smartphone. I'm behind a screen 8 hours a day. I don't want to keep watching one when I'm off work.

How about if there was a locked down smartphone OS with only call/messaging/camera and maps functionality. No other apps possible

I think having a browser is what keeps me hooked. I removed all my social media apps out of privacy concerns, install only utility apps as needed, but that pesky browser seems to always be open...

I also spend more time on it when I haven't slept well. I'm happy to do other things when I'm rested but when I'm tired I don't want to do anything, and apparently looking at my phone meets the criteria for not doing anything.

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Post by pc86 »

_jal wrote: post #50
pc86 wrote: post #39

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He who collects the most regrets wins?

"It's better to regret something you have done then something you haven't". -- Gibby Haynes (And/or lots of other people)

As someone who regrets a lot of things I've done and a handful of things I haven't, I'm very much inclined to agree.

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Post by fauigerzigerk »

thaumaturgy wrote: post #76
LUmBULtERA wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was a depressing quote.

It's a nonsense quote. Regret is the essence of expecting your past self to know the things that only your present self knows. As long as you don't make a habit of doing things you know in advance that you will regret, then you have nothing to regret at all: all your experiences, good-bad-and-otherwise, make you into the person you are.

True, but people who tend to regret things (not me) have a real knack for arguing conclusively why they could, should and actually have known all along that they were making a mistake.

And often it's actually true, but they erase all memory of the trade-offs they were considering at the time and disregard the possibility that acting differently might have led to an even greater regret.

So I think the Kierkegaard quote is not so nonsensical for people who - unlike yourself and myself - are prone to regrets. If you're bound to regret everything anyway then the feeling of regret driven by "why was I so stupid??"-logic may lose its intensity.

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Post by mitchty »

pc86 wrote: post #78
_jal wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"It's better to regret something you have done then something you haven't". -- Gibby Haynes (And/or lots of other people)

As someone who regrets a lot of things I've done and a handful of things I haven't, I'm very much inclined to agree.

Learn from that then, for the future, do what you won't regret in the future.

But be aware, it can cause its own issues. Example, dating and saying what you really feel when you do. It can cause things to end quickly, but at the very least you won't regret not having said what you felt. :)

Regrets are chains you put on your own legs that weigh you down for the rest of your lifes journey. Just put them aside and agree not to wear them again in the future.

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