screentime - techniques for managing it for yourself and your beloved ones

[sufi]

I have a rubbish phone, that helps a lot, but i still spend a lot of time on the laptop

i noticed that it's maybe more acceptable to zone out on the screen in the presence of your nearest and dearest - think of couples dining, or families on excursions

 

[sufi]

my laptop is also on its last legs, the mouse's USB port is unreliable & i hae to onstantly ome up with sentenes not ontaining ertain letters that are not working on the keyboard.
that makes me relutant to pik up the deie

 

[wg-]

Perhaps we should embrace it and constantly doomscroll between tiktok, reels and youtube shorts, scramble your brain forever, take yourself into a different space in preparation to successfully meme yourself on the next super platform

 

[sus]

Internal alignment of desires is the answer I think. Like any other rogue desire

 

[wg-]

Very well put.

You have to put kids on timers i think, at least at an early age

 

[kid charlemagne]

i used to use a setting on some apps that would be a timer on how long i could use the app, but it would give me the option to ignore the timer once it locked me out, so that strategy became quite useless through my lack of discipline. could work for others, but i need to seriously start putting the phone in another room at night. ive heard that screens an hour before bed and an hour after waking up is the way to go

 

[Murphy]

I have a rubbish phone, that helps a lot, but i still spend a lot of time on the laptop

i noticed that it's maybe more acceptable to zone out on the screen in the presence of your nearest and dearest - think of couples dining, or families on excursions

shit Nokias all the way

phones are put aside for the rare meals we get to share together but I’m not stupid enough to think this will last beyond a certain age threshold and that ultimately any/all efforts may prove futile

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Internet on dial-up. Get a reflective LCD screen or e-ink or projector or interactive whiteboard.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

@sufi if you want to stop doing something then tell everyone around you that you will pay them x amount if they catch you doing that. If the amount is high enough you won't even need to struggle with willpower as your brain will have accepted the privation. This really works.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

So long Sufi. I'm glad that my advice worked.

 

[sufi]

a repetitive gesture designed to palliate screen addiction, for instance. She demonstrates it, rubbing one hand over another as though wiping something clean. Audiences at “The Eleven” will be encouraged to incorporate the practice into their own lives.
“Let’s say for example I’m doing this wonderful interview and am incredibly lucky to be here but I’m getting this itch: I really want to be on Instagram,” she explains. “I’ve posted a picture 10 minutes ago and I really want to see how many likes it has got. Then I would just rub my hand, like this — just to remind myself to check back in, that I’m here with you, doing this interview.”

FKAT in FT

 

[sufi]

@sufi if you want to stop doing something then tell everyone around you that you will pay them x amount if they catch you doing that. If the amount is high enough you won't even need to struggle with willpower as your brain will have accepted the privation. This really works.

why would you pay people to stop you self sabotage
borderline masochism either way, if you stop yourself from using the thing or if you don't

 

[sufi]

@sufi if you want to stop doing something then tell everyone around you that you will pay them x amount if they catch you doing that. If the amount is high enough you won't even need to struggle with willpower as your brain will have accepted the privation. This really works.

make a whatsapp group about it

 

[mixed_biscuits]

why would you pay people to stop you self sabotage
borderline masochism either way, if you stop yourself from using the thing or if you don't

If the fine is large enough you won't have to pay because you won't do the thing.

 

[Murphy]

consoles - to become inconsolable to the excesses of supposed time and abstain from worry

Call of Duty, wtf, FIFA, wtf, it’s not the same as 8 or 9 of you on a shit laggy from overload LAN building armies to devastate opposition

edit the rest of this was just moaning, skip to

anyway, @william_kent has been on the lash for 60 hours and has achieved computing gnosis, what was revealed to thee, if anything, during said rite?

 

[Murphy]

eg there is no cornucopia of flying screens like Bladerunner yet, it’s more deeply personal than ever and I dogged before the era of Tinder, can’t really imagine the landscape either scrolling through yes/no, likes/dislikes but if it keeps the gu clinics giving out rubbers and hep shots, who am I to judge

and that’s what screen time’s initial novelty was - connectivity

it’s the flaw in your parental armour too - they’re ahead of you, always

 

[DannyL]

I have a rubbish phone, that helps a lot, but i still spend a lot of time on the laptop

i noticed that it's maybe more acceptable to zone out on the screen in the presence of your nearest and dearest - think of couples dining, or families on excursions

I kinda think the whole premise of the question is wrong tbh. "Techniques" to avoid this absolutely insidious, often-essential part of lives now, that there's no escaping from. A technique seems weak sauce against it tbh.

 

[sufi]

I kinda think the whole premise of the question is wrong tbh. "Techniques" to avoid this absolutely insidious, often-essential part of lives now, that there's no escaping from. A technique seems weak sauce against it tbh.

well the question was how to manage the absolutely insidious, often-essential part of lives - avoidance is a difficult technique to employ as they have made themselves indispensable
it almost feels like you need to do avoidance though in order to protect the offline space, to experience the drawbacks and sacrifices in order to understand what's still possible