How about a two-hour limit on experiencing capitalism per day? I think that gets to the crux of the problem far better.
Rule of capital: “Clock in, never clock out”
Good point, though I’d argue even federated social media can prove addictive.
My only issue with methods as this is the sustainability and ego problems. How many will now merely claim to keep it under quota so as to escape guilt?
When will the cheat-days become cheat weekends to only become ‘well the real problem is the anxiety over screentime so I just calmly try to minimize’ and thusly we get right back to square one with maybe just feeling less bad about it
I’ve found it helps to just use tools that massively increase friction, and make my phone less enjoyable. I’m not aiming for a specific target, just adjusting how rewarding or punishing it is in order to slowly shape my behaviour towards other things
Delays when I open something or keep using it, having to do math to keep using an app (which is through an F-Droid app called plug brain!) Blocks when I use things too much or open them too many times. The blocks can be circumvented by going to the block settings and waiting through a delay. Turning the saturation way down on my display. Moving all the mindless and scrolling apps I still use like lemmy and YouTube to the far corner of a folder in a far corner of my home screen
I’m hoping to set up ADB at some point so I can use tasker to manually turn the saturation back up on certain apps that aren’t meaningless to me like my mp3 player or reading apps, so it feels extra bad to use other stuff and I can’t fully adjust to the desaturation.
And I’ve been working on adding friction and removing rewardingness from youtube on my laptop which I use as my TV media center, and making decent progress there too, and I’m looking at getting some single purpose devices (mp3 player, eReader, setting up my old pokewalker and jailbreaking my 3ds) that give me exciting ways to interact with meaningful stuff outside of my phone and tv! ☺️
This reads like satirical copypasta, do you really do all of this? If you’re joking, pls forgive me I’m kinda an idiot
Nope, I wasn’t joking. It’s what I’ve found helps for me 🤷♂️
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