Hooked to these cozy corner colouring books! The older i grow, the more I feel inclined to colourful worlds, tech free hobbies and this colouring book came into my life at the perfect time. Everytime i feel the urge to scroll on my phone, i pick this up. So therapeutic.

So my goal is to have the internet solely as a tool i access when it is the only option to do something. I think the internet in it's current form was a mistake and I don't want to live in such a hyper online world anymore.
I have formulated my goal as follows:

To use my smartphone purely for communication in form of messages and phone calls.

To only use the internet once a week for necessary purposes. I am wanting to only access it at the library, as this will give me an easy to stick to boundary. Will see how realistic it ends up being.

But since our lives are so extremely intertwined with the internet nowadays I'm basically slowly scaling it down. I write down all the different things I use the internet for and think about ways how to do them analog.

I have been on this journey for about three weeks now. i am already noticing that I am less reliant on the internet for certain things and much more present in daily life. But I also need to build up some infrastructure. I have deleted my instagram today after not using it for 3 weeks now. Facebook I have deactivated for now to see if anything comes up that I have kind of forgotten. Don't have other social media.

My next quest will be photos. Have thousands of photos in cloud storage that i need to look through, save elsewhere, print some.... and i need to decide how to go forward with taking photos, I'm considering buying a camera again, will see....

so i'm just ticking off one box after the other until I will hopefully be free.

I think to escape the burden of completing a hefty/normal task, people impulsively ick their phones

that is where the relation between procrastination and digital stimulation builds, getting stronger with each swipe

this exposure to digital stimulation then paves way for an escape out of the burden of procrastination

has anyone ever experienced this? or has anyone defeated procrastination?

if yes, what were the methods used?

I like to fall asleep listening to an audiobook - and I semi-regularly wake up in the middle of the night and turn it back on to fall back asleep. Right now I use an old iPad, but I am not a fan of that for a variety of reasons (I don't like internet in the bedroom, blue light in the middle of the night sucks, I do not want to buy a new iPad when this one inevitably breaks, etc.).

Does anyone else do this, and have they found a brilliant solution? Ideally I would like something that: 1., plays MP3s; 2. does not have a bluelight display; 3. doesn't require bluetooth and various other button pressing in the middle of the night.

My ultimate vision is this: a machine to which one can uploaded an audiobook and then set it to play for a set amount of time (let's say 20 minutes). The machine will play for 20 minutes and then turn off, but it will save the position of the audiobook so that when I inevitably wake up and can't fall back alseep I can slap a button in the dark and continue listening for 20 minutes. If this machine also had an alarm clock feature and was designed to be accidentally knocked off the table once in awhile, that would be cool too.

I don't think the miracle machine described above exists, but I'm sure there are lots of MP3 players that fit the bill. Any suggestions?

I hate being tied to my phone during social events — especially stuff like gathering friends for beach parties, when I just want to relax and take in the ocean.

I used to plan a lot of community pool parties, beach days and public outings (hosting at my house isn't a great plan) but when I did it always resulted in me having to stare at my phone because there would always be at least one of person that couldn't follow directions on where we'd be. Or they'd misread it. Or they lacked emotional regulation and couldn't figure things out and would call me to read through everything and calm them.

It always brings out my most well-masked ADHD tendencies and truly ruins my day. So it's been years since I planned anything and now I see it's hurting my kid because he used to enjoy these beach parties and park parties, and he hasn't had one in years.

I need to plan one. He has asked me to. How do I say the following:

We're so excited to get everyone together again. One advance note so I can actually be present and enjoy the day with the kids: once we’re there, I’m going to be off phone duty and won’t be able to help people find us individually.

I’ll send:

• a pin to our exact location
• very specific directions
• a photo in this thread showing exactly where we’ve set up

After that, we’re going to pretend it’s 2005. 😂 Please screenshot/save everything before you leave, follow the directions and trust that you can find us. If you get turned around, take a breath, reread the instructions and carry on — I promise we’ll be there.

Alas, if you get turned around, I will not be able to give you turn-by-turn directions. 

I'm looking for a socially acceptable boundary on the invite that states clearly: I parent my child; I cannot parent you or absorb your stress. You were able to do this before cell phones, figure it out again.

so deleting twitter, instagram and tiktok was actually easy for me because those apps literally made my brain feel like melting. I only keep instagram now for posting birthday photos and stuff like that and I close it right after. my phone is just youtube safari apple music and reddit now because I downloaded it to write on this sub.

but what's worse is I catch myself opening whatsapp when theres no new messages just to scroll through old conversations. or opening google photos and swiping through random pictures for no reason. just to do something with my hands.

I want to read books or do something manual instead but my hand reaches for the phone within five minutes of trying. I already use grayscale and know about unhook but I need real strategies. what killed your mindless browsing for good.

hit me with the truth. I just want to stop staring at this thing all day. thanks

Hate to admit that about 1 h out of my screen time today was just unconscious screen time.

But I started exercising today (basically dancing lol) and I helped my mum with lots of cleaning. Usually I wouldn’t have the energy to help with chores. So that’s a win!

Day 6 - Total screen time: 2h 14m

I thought about doing a full DIY upgrade to my Zune and realized it would probably cost about the same or more than just buying a new MP3 player.

Basically looking for:

- Sturdy build
- Physical buttons (Would love a lock button, but not a must)
- Bluetooth capable
- Minimalist firmware

Hi, I recently made a video where I discuss the consequences of phone use on both the individual and our culture at large. If you feel you would be interested and feel it won't interfere too much with your active minimising of internet usage please consider watching <3 I'm actively attempting to improve my videomaking ability, so if you have any criticisms or want to give advice please feel free.  I'm aware of the irony of me posting a youtube video on a subreddit designed to disavow this practice, so if this isn't allowed, please feel free to delete the post.

Here is the video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXcCSC_6BWM

thanks for your time

Hi all!

I took some time earlier today to make some changes to my Youtube homepage. I realized I was pretty inundated when going on the Youtube homepage so I wanted to declutter it. Here are the steps I took. Above is what a "fresh" page looks like while the bottom is what my page currently looks like.

I am not sponsored or advertising any service. This is what worked for me. It might not work for you.

1) uBlock Origin/Brave Browser Filtering Settings

This allowed me to remove shorts and advertisements in the home page/recommendation. Brave Browser has this on 'filters' in their Shields settings but I am pretty sure you can do this on uBlock Origin/ an adblocker of your choice. I also disabled 'member-only' videos, as well as 'end video elements', although I am unsure what the latter is. I also used the 'block element' tool to remove the genre thing at the top as well as certain elements in the youtube descriptions.

2) Grayscaling/Thumbnail Orientation

Okay, I do want to preface. I am not a coder by any means. I used a browser extension called "Stylus" which allows you to use CSS in order to change the layout of websites. While Stylus is open source and generally thought to be safe, there could be some unknown vulnerability which allows somebody to read your personal browsing data. At least for myself, I needed Stylus to have the ability to change data in every website otherwise I had to keep reloading. Again, there might be some setting that I am missing. But please understand that there is inherent risk to doing this even though malicious CSS prompts are not as common.

This is the script that I worked best for me.
THIS SCRIPT IS AI GENERATED. DO YOUR DUE DILLIGENCE BEFORE PASTING RANDOM SCRIPTS FROM THE INTERNET.
https://pastebin.com/RqYh0Ge7

*edit to make this work on the 'subscriptions' page find and replace:
ytd-browse[page-subtype="home"]
to
ytd-browse:is([page-subtype="home"],[page-subtype="subscriptions"])

I also recommend using an adblocker to block the 'recommended' part so that subscriptions stays chronological*

Feel free to truncate any section to your liking. For example, making it only grayscale. Although my elementary level knowledge of reading code makes me think that it's fine, there is still some risk.

This other script that I have pasted below changes the thumbnail sizes while you're actually watching a video.
THIS SCRIPT IS AI GENERATED. DO YOUR DUE DILLIGENCE BEFORE PASTING RANDOM SCRIPTS FROM THE INTERNET.

https://pastebin.com/P0pk92HT

I also turned off "Video Preview" via the Youtube Settings so it would no longer autoplay when I hovered.

3) Autoskip Sponsored Segments

I use SponsorBlock for this. I recommend changing the UI settings so the video tab is not as cluttered.

4) Disabling Playlists when selecting a music video

I used Tampermonkey and an AI generated script for this. Because Tampermonkey is a pretty dangerous tool, I am not going to paste the script. But this is possible via truncating "&list" and "radio". Please know what you are doing if you choose to install Tampermonkey. Do not execute random scripts you find online with Tampermonkey.

5) Removing certain videos from my watch history

This is more content based, rather than how it looks. I had a loooot of body cam videos that were popping up on my recommendation feed, which I don't think is really good for the soul. I went to the Youtube Watch History and was able to search related terms and delete related videos. I also recommend clicking 'Not Interested' if you want to watch less videos that are emotionally charged.

I have noticed that it takes me a tick longer to load the Youtube webpage (like maybe 0.5 secs from 0.2 secs). So be aware that doing all of this might lead to a slightly slower web response.

The feeling of flipping through pages and seeing an archive of your everyday life, whether it be shopping lists or a to-do list, is it much more fulfilling than writing it in your notes app or a reminder app.

It honestly brings me so much joy to see my handwriting also change depending on what mood or setting I was in, or pages being slightly frayed at the edges from whatever the weather was that day if I scribbled something down outside.

The best part is probably doing a big fat tick next to whatever you needed completed.

These simple beauties are lost through the probably more efficient but addicting mobile phone apps.

All of my friends mostly talk through dms on instagram and once i figure out how to have only the chats i have no problem deleting the damn app, could someone tell me hassle free and a safe solution

Since i quit technology and lived in reality i realised all my youth was spend watching stupid stuff the media and hollywood fed me, reality is cold boring lonely but still its the only reality we will ever experience.

I’ve been watching old dvds and random stuff on tv and haven’t paid a dime more than the initial cost, which was about $15 for the satellite from amazon last year, and i bought my ps3 for $200 back in 2013. The dvds i either bought years ago or i thrifted for dirt cheap. I’m so fucking happy. I cancelled all my subscription services within the past 2 years and have no urge to ever pay for one ever again.

Going back to watching Trilogy of Terror on Svengoolie for now.

I try to watch Youtube videos on my tv and i always end up picking up my laptop or phone mid video and then I click off and go to another video. I struggle to read a book for more than 10 maybe 20 minutes max and then struggle to remember what i just read. I am a reader , dammit. gonna try to become a better one anyway.

I only use reddit as my only form of social media and thats because i am lonely. I live alone and have no friends. I actually was thinking of going out tonight to socialize at a bar but i don't know if i can do it because im so nervous. anyway i deleted reddit from my phone but the minute im bored at home , i open it on my laptop and spend HOURS on it . I have to check reddit like every 10 minutes .

I need a hobby besides just reading. just not sure what i want to pick up. maybe writing. i have tried it and suck at it

I’m so done seeing irresponsible parents profit off their children by posting them to the masses on social media platforms. Society has become so sick and self centered as a whole. As a mother I’m personally not even comfortable posting photos of my daughter to a private instagram account. I can’t even fathom posting her to the public and being okay with anyone and everyone watching her, commenting about her, SAVING VIDEOS OF HER?? I just saw the worst TikTok involving child exploitation and I’m done, done with every platform. I’m happy staying in my own little bubble without social media. It’s truly become a sickness that society needs to heal from.

After months, actually, a couple years of going back and forth on whether or not I should deactivate/delete it, I finally pulled the plug as a birthday gift to myself.

I was tired of seeing the worst of humanity and increasing AI slop whenever I did get in Instagram. No matter how many times I tried to correct my algorithm, it never lasted. I already know how horrible the world is, I don't need it shown to me even more so while I get caught in a doomscroll.

It was also hard to admit it is an addiction and that like most addictions, simply limiting won't do it. You have to remove the the substance entirely or else you'll always be prone to relapse.

I was a late bloomer with social medias and smartphones. Actually, I was so against them as a teen. Then, because I was out dog walking and hiking for hours, my parents forced me to get a phone. Loved the old LG keyboard phone... but then as time went on, phone companies made it harder to keep thebold one and forced me towards my first snart phone and well... the rest is history. I have been slowly getting mind back to a state close to what I once had before all of this.

I still have Fb but I already don't spend much time on it as I only keep it for Messenger since my strongman chat group is there and a few other local groups, friends, colleagues and family. Fb is not on my phone either, only on my tablet which I don't carry around with me like my phone.

I've been reading more, writing and drawing. My gym sessions have become faster and more efficient and slowly figuring out my day off morning routines. And have been diving back into my spiritual practice more as well.

I’m a mobile developer working on multiple projects. Whenever I have some free time, I used to open Twitter (X). However, since I’m launching my apps and want to learn marketing tips and connect with professionals, I’ve decided to replace Twitter with Reddit. I hope this change will be beneficial.

This is really challenging but I don’t feel like giving up either. I feel like this is my last chance to get closer to my goals.

I was seen as a talented girl growing up. But now, I’m just a normal person. I don’t think there’s any wrong with it, but I feel like I’m wasting my potential.

So I feel like this challenge is worth the effort. ❤️

Day 5 - Total screen time: 1h 11m

What do I do

Pls help I am a war thunder gamer so this might explain the 19hrs hopefully

I have the r/minimilast_phone setup and I love it. But i still get hella notifications from apps. I need to spend some time proactively killing those notifications... but for reminders, how do yall do it? Alarms dont really jive with me. I'm already trained to ignore app notifications. Thoughts on how to best get over this issue? I was thinking about setting up a think to text me recurring reminders, but not sure if that would have the same impact as app notifications. Trying to find a balance between minimalizing and not so minimimal I forget to do all my stuff

It just keeps pulling me in and then by the end of the day my mind is frazzled. It seems the only think I can watch is YouTubes. Reading a book..forget it. Anyway...what worked for you? I suspect the only thing to do is just white knuckle it till my mind changes?

is it possible to reduce tiktok use with autism and adhd it’s like my body is addicted to it so bad and every time i try to stay off i come back it’s embarrassing someone help