i don’t have social media but i browse lemmy a little too frequently for my liking so i started using the screen zen app. i limited my use to 2 hours per day, which can be broken into 15min intervals.
so when i try to launch sync a screen pops up and says “0/8, is this important?” and waits 5 seconds before i can say unlock, or don’t unlock immediately. the result has been fantastic, i use it like 3 times a day for less than 15min each.
the thing about the timer is it doesn’t stop if you tab out of the app so you either consume the allotted time in one sitting or it just goes away. which at first i thought was a bad thing but turns out being forced to use it in one go makes it feel more like a chore so you don’t even wanna do it.
if you have an impulse problem with social media i think this type of app could help a lot.
Looks like the Olive garden app is a CIA bot
Sounds like an Olive Garden shill. Subliminal marketing.
No that’s something like Nedrag Evilo Ta Tae
What in the hell is happenin’ over in the Olive garden app!?
Bro, are you not playing the hidden game on there “BRDstix”? It’s awesome.
Can’t tell if you’re serious or not…
Soup and salad and unlimited breadsticks.
If you leave, you have to pay when you come back.
WTF are you doing with Olive Garden, Dan?
coffee and breadsticks on my day off shuddup
I’m sorry, I don’t wanna break the funny, so if you’re just here to laugh, the please feel free to do so.
If you are suffering:
Real Phone addiction, which a lot of people nowadays have, takes lifes. It is nothing to joke with. Get a professional if you can. It will erode you physical wellness, your social groups, your grades, your working capacity, you will get severe depression, anxiety, will lack hunger. We all know where that can lead.Fight it, you have ambitions. The phone does not make you happy.
You should put your phone in a cabinet. Ideally in a space where other people can see it during the day. Then loudly announce to them that you’re limiting your screen time in that way.
This is the first step: Admitting it, full stop, nothing to be ashamed of.When you catch yourself doing more than standing awkwardly in front of the cabinet to answer messages from friends and family you should fix that by putting the phone back into the cabinet. If this is too hard, buy a timed phone safe. Make sure to have a way to call the fire department.
That’s the second step: Correcting yourself. Just don’t get frustrated, it’s not you, it’s your addiction.And then when you can leave that shitter in there for as long as you want without thinking of it in a longingly way, then you can finally start living a life without your addiction. It won’t be gone, mind you.
And that’s the final step: Consistency.After a long time of personal development you may even completely make your addiction disappear, but this takes a long time.
Personal development will happen along the way. You will be surprised how much emotion you will have without your phone. You will want to do stuff again.Good luck. BANISH THAT FUCKER.
Matter of fact, I’ll have to put something away.
Did you write that on your phone? Or on your computer? Same addiction.
Phone.
Then you should’ve put the phone back in the cabinet. Follow your rules.
I did do that.
I still use it from time to time.So you were standing there all uncomfortably in the kitchen while you typed that out with your thumbs? You did send a good message though. Everything you said is pretty true except I don’t think most people would want to store their phone in their cabinet. Our phones are not only addictive, but if we can get past that addiction they still come in handy and they are essential to daily life.
Okay, first of I have no idea with whatever else I would be typing rather than my thumbs.
Second of, I do sometimes stand in front my cabinet, sometimes I take it out for a few minutes. But it never gets to an hour anymore. Using my phone for less than an hour a day is not achievable for most “modern” (lmao) humans. I still have the need to write my friends, which are sadly all addicted to their phones too, don’t go out regularly and we chat using our phones. Lemmy is a whole other issue, but it’s getting less as well.
Just because I’m doing something doesn’t mean I’m perfect at it. You appear like a double hyprocrite for trying to point out how I’m not doing what I say and meanwhile don’t do it yourself while finding it to be true.
Uh oh…
There are only 3 possibilities
- Voyager is a battery hog
- You don’t use your phone much
- You, together with your army of alts is single-handedly responsible for half of lemmy content
Voyager is a website in a wrapper. I dunno how it’s suppose to run the battery anymore than Safari does.
Its because it gets reported as the app using the screen and other subsystems during time its in-focus. So really it’s mostly your screen/wifi/etc using power, not the website as such - but the phone categorizes relevant power draw to the active foreground app that’s preventing the phone from sleeping.
People who use social medias on websites (me):
No idea what “Olive Garden” is - is it used all day, or is it just a shitty programmed app that it eats up the battery?
Olive Garden is a restaurant chain. It would be like spending all day on the Arby’s or McDonald’s app with an added layer of Olive Garden being a bit obscure.
iPhone creates a Screen Time report if you want to see actual usage and not just battery usage.
Same on my Android
I turned off screen time on my iPhone because it’s hopelessly broken. It kept reporting that I was using my phone 20+hours a day with multiple apps given seven time being waaaay higher than reality. Lots of posts to be found on this bug.
Found the Dutchie!
If you run an android device, or any other computer that doesn’t allow the user to do basic things like close apps. You should make use of the battery optimization settings.
On android every app that you don’t want real time updates from should be set to restricted battery mode, and background data to off.
The only time you need background data is for real time updates or background play in apps like YouTube or Spotify.
This feature will almost certainly get removed in the future if history is any indication, so enjoy having decent battery life and better networking performance while it lasts.
The only time you need background data is for real time updates
And makes total sense here. I need to know the second that never ending pasta bowl starts.
It’s good for some things, messaging, banking, background play, etc. just the less you have the less apps will destroy your battery and your network connection.
The Great Breadstick Debate continues apace.
Wow, Termux is at the top for me, at 86%. I know my phone often gets notably warm while building packages in Termux, but that is surprising.
I no longer have Twatter on my phone, best decision I made in years.
Deadnaming? Have some respect! It’s called xhitter now…
Speaking of, I just finished my coffee and have to go send some xhits
chat am I cooked
(RVX is a custom YouTube apk without ads)
