In case this helps anyone here or helps you help someone you know.
That’s one of the nice things about Lemmy for me. I pretty much just stick to the local feed and I can read whatever has been posted today in an hour or so. More time for books.
I have a social media and games cut off of 10pm, typically. Only TV, movies and comics on screens after that, with brightness down on devices, and books being the best as it dials sensory input way down to prepare your brain for sleep.
Also, you can turn off infinite scroll on Voyager.
This post was good enough to kick me off my phone for the night. I just woke up after about 3 hours and only meant to pull my phone out to turn the audiobook back on, and instead started scrolling.
So thanks for the reminder I should be sleeping!
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I’m an addict. If it’s not the phone it’s going to be something else. The apps can be bypassed and uninstalled.
I wonder if I would be like this if I had money for hobbies.
Depending on where you live and what you like to do you can get involved in regular activities that don’t require much money at all. You can volunteer with community groups to do all manner of jobs and projects from outdoor citizen science, to helping restore beautiful old machines, from driving people to medical appointments to taking care of historical buildings and gardens, from planting trees for wildlife to planting community vegetable and fruit gardens for community use, from visiting isolated people to volunteering with local sporting facilities and on and on… More money may come your way if you volunteer in areas related to the kind of employment you like.
Having an addictive personality can be used for doing positive activities really well.
