• LEX@lemm.ee
    85·
    9 months ago

    “The modern internet consists of five massive websites, the content of each are screenshots from the other four.”

  • Miku Luna \ she/it@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    281·
    9 months ago

    Every time I unlock my phone I:

    • Check WhatsApp
    • Check Discord
    • Check Mail
    • Scroll Lemmy for about hour
    • Read a post I want to help
    • Go down at least 3 different rabbit holes at once for the next 2 hours
    • Give up
    • Close Lemmy
    • Don’t know what to do
    • Open Lemmy
    • See no new posts
    • Close Lemmy
    • repeat until I turn my phone off
    • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      When I open my phone, I look at a couple of things like news / weather / Lemmy, and then in about 5-10 minutes I’m done taking a dump and I put the phone away until I get a message.

      Most of the time I don’t use a smartphone for the Internet, it’s just my pocket messenger device.

  • Squirrel@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    151·
    9 months ago

    Y’all don’t know/remember the struggle. My “apps” used to be 2 or 3 forums – and not particularly active forums, at that – that I would check repeatedly, all day long, during downtime at work. Posts and comments were rare.

    I do not miss those days.

    • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      9 months ago

      I don’t even understand why people want to look at phone apps all day. I hate browsing the Internet on a phone screen usually, it’s so inferior to having a monitor, mouse, and keyboard.

      I mean if you’re at work or whatever and you’re bored, I can see wasting time on phone apps, but any other time I don’t. But of course if you don’t have a computer you can’t just use the computer you don’t have.

      • BlackPenguins@lemmy.world
        14·
        9 months ago

        It’s much easier to use touch than a mouse? Swipe keyboard are almost faster. And apps are just a more minimalist version of a desktop site. All the content, none of the clutter. I despised Reddit on my laptop.

        • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
          51·
          9 months ago

          Absolutely not. Mouse and keyboard are FAR faster than anything you can do on a touch screen.

          I’ll take you on in a typing contest if you disagree. I can type about 90 WPM on keyboard.

          EDIT: I overestimated my typing speed. 64 WPM on my first and only try on typingtest dot com -

    • danque@lemmy.world
      3·
      9 months ago

      Ah yes the ‘hi guys I have a problem with this program and it’s doing this any solutions?’ And then you would have a reply maybe in a week or with bad luck a month. I’d usually just go to a IRC chatroom and ask it there.

    • InputZero@lemmy.ml
      21·
      9 months ago

      Even worse when you see every post incremented by one or more. Either a racist troll had stumbled their way in or an ad-bot was spam posting. Either way, took a few days for the mods to get around to cleaning it up. Passwords for every board was the only way to slow it down. They were not the good old days.

  • alvanrahimli@lemmy.ml
    11·
    9 months ago

    The last one is always github trends. If you end up there, no luck for you then. Go cook something or go outside

  • Jeom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    9 months ago

    not sure why but my mental health gets way better when i use my laptop.

    im a zoomer so i started out on a phone and only got a laptop a few years ago, i thnk it might be because everytime i opened my phone i would just rot away and i just go back to those habits whenever i use my phone. when i started using a laptop my entire schedule changed and updated(for the better). and having a slow laptop is prob also good to avoid wasting too much time on video games lmao

    • trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      not sure why but my mental health gets way better when i use my laptop.

      because a laptop doesn’t interrupt you every 30 seconds with a notification about some shit you don’t care about

    • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br
      3·
      9 months ago

      I don’t know about you, but it seems to me that phone OSes and apps are designed to steal our attention at all the times. I find it hard to do stuff while receiving notifications here and there, or even knowing that a new notification may pop up at any time. If fells like trying to do something while someone is watching and poking me all the time.

    • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
      3·
      9 months ago

      Gen Z here, I actually had the exact opposite problem. I don’t really use a smartphone now, but when I did use it daily, while I could get into some article rabbitholes, it was never to a painful extent. Probably because the phone is small and not at all comfortable to interact with long-term. But when I am on the laptop - I often lose track of time spent on IRC, youtube and newsfeeds. I now try to strictly limit the time to only what’s needed (unless IRC has a conversation that is really relevant for me), and download most articles onto an E-reader for a less painful experience.

  • AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world
    6·
    9 months ago

    I only have Lemmy and Youtube. I’m actually trying to get off Youtube, those shorts are rotting my brain. I tried deleting the app but my Pixel won’t let me.

    • tacosplease@lemmy.world
      5·
      9 months ago

      Lemmy, YouTube, and a podcast app for me.

      There’s still great content on YouTube, but I also understand if people boycott the site for moral/personal reasons.

    • BlackPenguins@lemmy.world
      5·
      9 months ago

      YouTube shorts I could understand. But I love using it for channels that have quality 5 to 10 minute content and I don’t feel like it’s as much a waste of my time as shorts. Legal Eagle, Hot Ones, Tom Scott, Some More News, You Suck At Cooking, Let’s Game it Out. There are some gems out there.

      • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
        2·
        9 months ago

        5 to 10 minutes is a bit too short for comfort tbh. If the content is good, the joy is slightly poisoned by the fact that there was so little of it. IMO the comfortable video length is 30 to 50 minutes, which is a far more enjoyable experience (with 1-2 hours if it’s a podcast).

      • AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 months ago

        I still like Youtube, I watch it on my TV all the time. It’s only a problem on my phone because I would turn my phone screen on, go to Youtube Shorts without even thinking, and end up wasting 30+ minutes at a time. I hate how effective short form videos are on me, It’s just so easy to keep going. On my TV, I only watch normal length videos that I search for, I don’t mind those.

        • BlackPenguins@lemmy.world
          1·
          8 months ago

          That’s definitely not a you problem. I’ve been stuck watching the most pointless shorts on Snapchat with oddly satisfying videos.