A couple weeks ago, I deleted social media off my phone. Insta and reddit was all that was left, but I noticed how much of a useless time sink they were becoming. My daily mood has also improved.

Now, I’ve been reading manga and playing chess online to fill the gap. But I’m still looking for suggestions on what else there is to do besides doom scroll. It’s not like I’m outlawing the internet entirely, I still have interests and hobbies etc, but I’m open to just about anything.

  • octobob@lemmy.mlOP
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    2 days ago

    I actually made a great setup for retro gaming at home. I have my Linux PC connected to a KVM over LAN to the living room TV. Hyprland lets me set keybinds to run scripts to turn off my computer monitors, turn on the TV, switch audio (still working out a few kinda with audio actually), and then launch emulationstation-DE which is a front end for launching the games on each emulator.

    It’s great running everything on a PC with decent specs, I have a 5800x and 6700 XT. It can do all the old games obviously, and up to PS3 and switch games, upscaled to 4K and with a bangin audio system.

    Surprisingly, there’s very little latency issues or lag over the kvm. Or if there are I can’t notice them.

    It might be worth a go to play the handheld ones on my phone however. Playing GBA and DS games on my big living room TV seems a bit silly haha

    • QuarterSwede@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      A few reasons I prefer the exclusive handheld game route.

      1. Gets you away from your internet connected device. No distracting notifications coming in
      2. It’s dedicated to it so it’s really good at it.
      3. No battery life hit to your phone.
      4. Higher learning curve (this goes to time filler which is what you wanted).
      5. Sitting on the couch, playing it outside/while traveling is great with it.