• morto@piefed.social
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    2 months ago

    One thing that really works to make apps less interesting sensorially is to turn the screen grayscale. For anyone who feels addicted to their phones, you can set this in the accessibility settings in android

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      2 days ago

      i sometimes wonder if i lucked out getting addicted to laptops instead of phones.

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        16 hours ago

        they tend to be less of an addiction because we usually don’t keep them turned on all the time. There’s a time for turning off and stopping for the day, unlike phones, that we tend to use at any moment

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          15 hours ago

          they tend to be less of an addiction because we usually don’t keep them turned on all the time.

          i never shut mine off.

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            14 hours ago

            congrats, you’re officially an outlier lol

            jokes aside, do you fin it do be less detrimental than phone addiction?

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              13 hours ago

              i don’t understand the phone addiction, so i don’t think i’m qualified to answer that; but i can say that i notice that people speak and behave differently if they rely more heavily on their phones than i do.

              and i also suppose that the fact that i don’t bring my laptop everywhere with me and that the only time i use my phone at home is for phone conversations make sense.

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        2 months ago

        Sad to hear that. Grayscale helped me a lot, both on mobile and desktop. It’s alsoimportant to try finding interesting things like hobbies, to fill the gap left by the phone, or we end up coming back to it, because nothing else seems interesting. I struggled a lot before finding a tech usage time that I feel like not harmuf to me, and even so, I have to be constantly observing if I’m not becoming addicted again