reddit is shit and makes me annoyed, twitter is shit and makes me annoyed, tiktok is shit and makes me annoyed, pure news sites are boring, cracked is dead, google doesn’t work anymore, lemmy is only memes and news and fairly slow
i feel like i used to be able to sink into an activity on this machine, but now i just spend 5 minutes somewhere, the algorithm runs out of content, i get annoyed and go somewhere else, same process happens. i feel like i have amnesia, i used to enjoy this but i have no idea how.
Download and distribute Nintendo emulators and roms.
I understand the reference.
Used to be reddit. I’m here now because I can’t be on reddit anymore, but this place (maybe thankfully) just isn’t the abyss to suck me into, so now, my online time is mostly on discord
I’m not counting videogames. Though I do play some online stuff, I don’t consider it the same as something like browsing a website. It’s a different activity. If you do count it, then yeah, it’s games. My computer time is largely games
I’ve embraced this and started reading more books and taking my health and passions more seriously. I’ve even ditched my Apple Watch and have found other ways to declutter and minimize my digital lifestyle. It’s genuinely freeing and feels fantastic.
This is so true. I try to explain this to my wife and she doesn’t understand.
If I’m on my phone I’m either:
- Answering endless Teams chats or emails (I get work messages well outside of normal business hours because of my job—it’s annoying but I’ve also gotten used to it because we basically do everything async)
- Doom scrolling
I hate social media. I’ve hated Reddit since API. Lemmy is great but I’ll go days sometimes with the same home page. So I basically cycle through the same 3 sites endlessly. I got a Steam Deck to try and help with this, but when I hop on it my wife thinks I’m “playing video games so should be working on something.” I’ve tried to explain that using a Steam Deck is the equivalent of her scrolling social media, but alas.
So yeah. Basically nothing to do these days. I think the most frustrating part to me is how most content seems to be geared towards making me angry. I never remember it being like that.
If you have that lying around, play that freaking game you left on your steam library for later. While playing this game, limit/cut all your accesses to these social platforms that makes you turn in circles.
Also do invite old friends or loved ones, at least on discord, talking with real humans sometimes could help you disconnect from these ragebait worlds.
I recently put together a small discord server (maybe a dozen or so people) with some internet friends I met on IRC and Slack back in the day. It’s been lovely getting the gang back together after most of a decade of silence, I’m enjoying catching up with everyone very very much. Highly recommend, it’s been great for my recent mental health, and reportedly so for a couple other folks in the group as well.
Honestly I have more IRL hobbies now.
I’m reading more and watching movies way more. I LOVE movies. Sometimes in the 2010s I completely lost the ability to watch movie without being on my phone. My goal is to change that
I distinctly remember a brain glitch developing in my head circa 1992 when I no longer had the attention span for movies.
I guess you had accumulated enough environmental toxins by then:
I’m movie and tv junkie too .
I spend a lot of time on Lemmy, sorted by Top>Day or whatever, which seems to provide mostly fresh stuff every morning. I’m on Telegram being an attention whore in my local art community/fandom/convention planning spaces. I browse art on websites, and Google like a madman in relation to my broken project car that I’m trying to restore. I am big into Outer Wilds, and was spending a lot of time on that up until recently. YouTube for offroad recovery videos (Trail Mater and Matt’s Offroad Recovery), which is silly because I don’t like offloading. It is fun to see the physics/mechanical aspect of how big truck recoveries work
I like to work with artists from Europe, so sometimes I spend inordinate amounts of time trying to track people down on Russian Google/Facebook (Yandex/VK) haha
Can you recommend some good art sites? I’ve been really enjoying Pixelfed.
I await death, that’s what I do
I’ve been doing more stuff offline these days. I’ve been making music that about 10% of people actually like, which is a pretty decent ratio, I think ( https://songwhip.com/thethreeleonards ). between music and board-gaming and TV the hours fill up.
I’ve been on The Internet since 1995. I, too, used to enjoy this. There is enjoyment to be found, but most of that is in finding people I can sincerely connect with, which is difficult. Treating The Internet like it’s the Mirror Of Erised is not the way to happiness.
I moved to a city where it’s always warm, and sunny a lot so I’m outside a lot more now, just walking around or sun bathing. I’m also going to the gym regularly for once in my life haha
Most of the time I spend on my computer isn’t browsing the web, but doing other stuff like modding Skyrim, playing other games, etc…
I visit forums that are associated with my hobbies, like satellite forums, tech forum etc. I also listen music, and post NSFW content(when I can) in other platforms(not in Reddit).
Hobbies are the only thing that keep me on the internet, apart from news and memes.
Satellite forums sounds like a very specific hobby, but I can’t quite tell which one:
- forums where all the remote sensing / OSINT / geospatial nerds gather.
- forums for satellite broadcast enthousiasts.
- forums for discussion on space exploration and satellites carrying scientific equipment or actual satellite astronomical bodies.
- forums that are called satellite forums as some form of jargon I am about to learn about for the first time.
What are people into these days?
TV satellite of course! Watching tv over the internet(IPTV, OTT) sounds good, but satellite tv is far better IMO(so far, wont last long). Anything related to new satellites, transponders, epg, FTA(free to air) channels and scrambled channels(when they are open), also there are linux boxes like octagon and vu +, where the users create images and addons. I don’t know for USA, but in EU with a big dish you can get lots of things.
This week at 13.0E, they added some Bulgarian channels, but the signal was low?, people started wondering why they added them, since it already in another sat. Probably tests.
Ah second category it is. Well met!
As a category one nerd with a susceptibility to new kinds of gadget-related hobbies I’m not sure SAT TV is something I should be getting into. Sounds like an absolute blast to tinker with all kinds of setups though.
Do you just buy a dish and a receiver en get going? Or is there more to it?
You just don’t buy any dish, you have think what you want to watch/receive, then pick the right size dish, and then you have to pick a receiver. Not me, but many users have more than two boxes for many reasons.
Once you have these, then you have to choose if you gonna have a motorized dish or stable with more than 1 LNB’s. Motorized dish is good because you only need 2-3 cables, but there is a delay when you switch satellite, seconds or minute until it turns to the right position. While stable has more job and cables to have, while switching satellites/channel is instant. wave frontier is considered the best dish, as it can see/get lots of sats with its size the way it is(needs a lot of lnbs and cable!).
Some people switch receivers every time a new one is out(not many the last years).
FTA is good, but people still trying to crack scrambled channels.
Well, first the obvious, Lemmy, YouTube, learn a language, learn a skill. Do you have any creative outlets?
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I mostly don’t. I write, program, play a game, catch up on work, spend time with family, etc. instead. I’m kind of glad because I’ve noticed life has genuinely improved since taking a step back from the Internet’s toxicity.
Podcasts mostly. Lemmy is ok, but it lacks the content Reddit once had.
