I know links to long YouTube videos aren't ideal for platforms like Lemmy, but I thought this was an exceptionally sincere and constructive talk. There's analysis and solutions for screen addiction. The journalist seems to really know what she's talking about.

The main thing I got from this was insightful validation: It's helpful to delineate problematic use from non-problematic use. They discuss the brain patterns that lead to device "addiction" and more importantly, the behaviours that can get us out of it.

Anyway, I learned a lot and saw clearly many of the traps I fall into which was helpful.

I'll put the TOC here below. I don't know either of these people and have never heard of them before.

• 00:00 The Hours We Spend Daily On Our Phones
• 04:31 Effective Ways We Can Reduce Time On Our Phones
• 09:06 Why Phones Can Cause A Decrease In Our Attention Spans
• 16:17 Do Dopamine Detoxes Work?
• 26:34 What Are Phones Doing To Our Memory?
• 30:34 How Screentime Can Effect Our Perce

Is the internet turning your brain into . . . popcorn? 🍿

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/54337061

I heard a kid today talking with friends about how they play the "battery game" every day to help them stay off their phone. The goal is simply to have as high a battery percentage on your phone as possible when you get home. Interesting, isn't it?!

I started doing this for a few hours before lunch to extend my battery life, but found that it actually improved my attention and productivity. I also made better choices from my less distracted state, in particular deciding I could skip an unhealthy snack etc.

Drew a picture and wrote this morning. It was quite nice.

Cross-posted from here.

quitsocialmedia.club is also a minimalist website: It is part of the 1MB club.

A FOSS Android Launcher with a minimal, distraction free UI. Fork of Slim-launcher.

minimalistic xmobar inspired status bar, in a terminal emulator.

Dependency :

• POSIX-compliant shell: printf, set, unset, shift, test, while, continue, break, return, case, trap, getopts
• stty
• tr
• dd
• cat

Hi. Taking inspiration from this post I'm sharing my Void Linux setup. As you can see, it's a very minimalist, KISS, UNIX-like one, as Void Linux is by default. The specs, commented:

Window manager: Openbox. Because it's lightweight and fast, pretty "naked" by default, but you can do whatever you want with it. As you can see, I don't use toolbars, but neither app launchers, archive managers (GUI nor CLI, I just type my way through the system), not even a wallpaper is set. This is because I spend here most of the time on the terminal and maybe browsing the web or reading some PDF docs. The key for everything are keyboard shortcuts: I can launch apps, work around windows (close, minimize, resize, cycling, tiling...), control sound and brightness , take a screenshot... Just by the right shortcut. Trackpad is mostly to select fields on Firefox and s

This is the things I use on my computer. :)

Conditions for a good software accoridng to me

• Least number of visual stimulations. No notifications, no sounds, no tons of button everywhere... Best if it can be only used using keyboard.
• Light, my computer also wants to benefit from minimalism.
• Respects its users. It needs to be "free software" (free as freedom)
• Being necessary for you.

The basic stuff

• Xubuntu is my operating system.
• dwm (plus dmenu) is my window manager. Everything is done using a few shortcuts and takes no space on the screen. The shortcuts are easy to get, but the installation might be tricky for new linux users.
• st is my terminal. I use it for coding, writing and managing my system. The only thing I changed to it was to change the fontsize and enable the scrollback patch. But again it might be tricky to install for new linux users.

Browsing online

I already tried other stuff like "surf" but I don't like it because I want t

I'm fond of the idea that a dumbphone can detach us from tech in a meaningful way. I'm slowly adding components of this decentralized electronic device/system in my life. I have a DSLR for photos, a laptop for learning, working and leisure, a Fiio M3K digital audio player for music. I require gps for navigation in my day-to-day travels. I'm at the point where I'd like to ditch my android smartphone and go with a 4G LTE dumbphone that is compatible in both North America and Europe.

Since the phone being produced by Mudita OS doesn't come out until April, maybe I should get a used, de-googled phone off of eBay to try out in the interim? Then I can "have the facts"and see if I should keep a smartphone, albeit a de-googled one with me, or just keep on the path of having a device for each need that I have.

Thoughts on this?

I found this person's gemlog while browsing random Gemini sites and they had an interesting take on the whole digital minimalism movement. Essentially, their point is that you shouldn't just be aiming to blindly reduce all your screen time, but instead make sure the things you use your screen time on are meaningful and fulfilling. What do y'all think?

Gemini source: gemini://gemini.archwizard.xyz/personallog/pursuit-of-intentionality.gmi