Five apps😅 not so many for me

Bored of Lemmy, close Lemmy, stare at screen, open Lemmy

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wheres that from
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I've been playing this in a browser in my phone. Drop the fruits on each other to make bigger fruit and get a high score:

https://suikagame.com/

Edit: dare you to beat my high score

I love this, thanks for sharing! Already blew 15 min on this lol
Ayy thanks, got to 1400
1040
- 1044 haha get in
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I got 2632... for some reason uploading a 9kb jpg and it says it is too large... wtf...

But yeah, this game is awesome, thanks! The feeling of about to die and then boom, first watermelon ever is pretty amazing!
- That's awesome! Nice job
I got 2220 https://playsuikagame.com/
2288 oh my god it’s fun and I normally suck at spatial puzzle games like these

Like I’m absolutely painfully dog water at Tetris
oh no
2514 😎
- Nice
1280
I defeated you but it was on https://suikagameonline.com , because this website has no disruptive ads while I play.
- Weird, I never get ads, but I'm glad you beat it! Nice job

Every time I unlock my phone I:

Check WhatsApp
Check Discord
Check Mail
Scroll Lemmy for about hour
Read a post I want to help
Go down at least 3 different rabbit holes at once for the next 2 hours
Give up
Close Lemmy
Don't know what to do
Open Lemmy
See no new posts
Close Lemmy
repeat until I turn my phone off

When I open my phone, I look at a couple of things like news / weather / Lemmy, and then in about 5-10 minutes I'm done taking a dump and I put the phone away until I get a message.

Most of the time I don't use a smartphone for the Internet, it's just my pocket messenger device.
Discord

better foss frontend: https://github.com/SpacingBat3/WebCord
- Better not use it at all
- phone

There's always gaming or joining a cult.. Or you could do both by getting into Minecraft 🤷

Especially modded minecraft
- It's like crack
Have you considered Factorio?
- I hadn't heard about it before but it looks interesting!
Minecraft is boring 🥵
- I agree, but to each their own 🤷 It was kind of a joke suggestion anyway 😁
  
  If you aren't yet, I recommend playing Baldurs Gate 3. Everyone should, whether they're normally into RPGs or not. It's THAT good 😁

Have you tried knitting?

Y'all don't know/remember the struggle. My "apps" used to be 2 or 3 forums -- and not particularly active forums, at that -- that I would check repeatedly, all day long, during downtime at work. Posts and comments were rare.

I do not miss those days.

I don't even understand why people want to look at phone apps all day. I hate browsing the Internet on a phone screen usually, it's so inferior to having a monitor, mouse, and keyboard.

I mean if you're at work or whatever and you're bored, I can see wasting time on phone apps, but any other time I don't. But of course if you don't have a computer you can't just use the computer you don't have.
- It's much easier to use touch than a mouse? Swipe keyboard are almost faster. And apps are just a more minimalist version of a desktop site. All the content, none of the clutter. I despised Reddit on my laptop.
Ah yes the 'hi guys I have a problem with this program and it's doing this any solutions?' And then you would have a reply maybe in a week or with bad luck a month. I'd usually just go to a IRC chatroom and ask it there.
- so you would have 1 weird guy reply after a few hours while 10000 other people just watched...
Even worse when you see every post incremented by one or more. Either a racist troll had stumbled their way in or an ad-bot was spam posting. Either way, took a few days for the mods to get around to cleaning it up. Passwords for every board was the only way to slow it down. They were not the good old days.

Check them again ten minutes later.

The last one is always github trends. If you end up there, no luck for you then. Go cook something or go outside

I picked up a Solitaire app. ScreenTime says I played 6.5 hours last week.

me at work rn 🙄

Email, Feedly, Megalodon, Voyager

1 app missing... Maybe vimusic...
- Cornhub
You should try gReader paired with Innorader for back end sync. It's dope AF. Also good recommendation on the mastodon app. Rocking Sync and Boost. Fair Mail, so I never have to open Gmail on my phone.

not sure why but my mental health gets way better when i use my laptop.

im a zoomer so i started out on a phone and only got a laptop a few years ago, i thnk it might be because everytime i opened my phone i would just rot away and i just go back to those habits whenever i use my phone. when i started using a laptop my entire schedule changed and updated(for the better). and having a slow laptop is prob also good to avoid wasting too much time on video games lmao

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- Revanced
I don't know about you, but it seems to me that phone OSes and apps are designed to steal our attention at all the times. I find it hard to do stuff while receiving notifications here and there, or even knowing that a new notification may pop up at any time. If fells like trying to do something while someone is watching and poking me all the time.
Gen Z here, I actually had the exact opposite problem. I don't really use a smartphone now, but when I did use it daily, while I could get into some article rabbitholes, it was never to a painful extent. Probably because the phone is small and not at all comfortable to interact with long-term. But when I am on the laptop - I often lose track of time spent on IRC, youtube and newsfeeds. I now try to strictly limit the time to only what's needed (unless IRC has a conversation that is really relevant for me), and download most articles onto an E-reader for a less painful experience.

It's not helpful in any way, but I do not experience boredom. You can leave me with a computer in a room for 2 years and when you come to collect me I'll just tell you to turn the light off and go away.

Leaving you alone in a room with a computer for 2 years is not a good thing tho. 😶

Mastodon
Lemmy
Idk, email?...
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Porn

fyi: there's an unofficial app for nhentai.

I only have Lemmy and Youtube. I'm actually trying to get off Youtube, those shorts are rotting my brain. I tried deleting the app but my Pixel won't let me.

Lemmy, YouTube, and a podcast app for me.

There's still great content on YouTube, but I also understand if people boycott the site for moral/personal reasons.
YouTube shorts I could understand. But I love using it for channels that have quality 5 to 10 minute content and I don't feel like it's as much a waste of my time as shorts. Legal Eagle, Hot Ones, Tom Scott, Some More News, You Suck At Cooking, Let's Game it Out. There are some gems out there.
- 5 to 10 minutes is a bit too short for comfort tbh. If the content is good, the joy is slightly poisoned by the fact that there was so little of it. IMO the comfortable video length is 30 to 50 minutes, which is a far more enjoyable experience (with 1-2 hours if it's a podcast).
- I still like Youtube, I watch it on my TV all the time. It's only a problem on my phone because I would turn my phone screen on, go to Youtube Shorts without even thinking, and end up wasting 30+ minutes at a time. I hate how effective short form videos are on me, It's just so easy to keep going. On my TV, I only watch normal length videos that I search for, I don't mind those.
I think Youtube Revanced let's you disable shorts.
- Newpipe doesn't display them at all, and is much lighter than revanced.
Use ADB to actually uninstall it using a computer.

I wiped everything from my Samsung phone, even google stuff then installed what I wanted afterwards.

https://www.xda-developers.com/uninstall-carrier-oem-bloatware-without-root-access/
Block youtube via dns or an app.
- Use ADB to uninstall it from a computer.
  
  I wiped everything from my Samsung phone, even google stuff then installed what I wanted afterwards.
  
  https://www.xda-developers.com/uninstall-carrier-oem-bloatware-without-root-access/

Make one of those apps Wikipedia and you won't have that issue

I used to still read Reddit through Narwhal, but a this weekend they cut off free access.

So now I am down to two apps, Lemmy and Youtube...

Similar to Suika, but with an original twist and fully offline:

2050

@suika game yes

Time to play Core Keeper.

I tried a while ago, but didn't enjoy it. It felt very barren. Do you play solo or with someone?

meditate, idk? the crud I read always bubbles back up then & I can chew on it more & even get more out of it (c.f. rotating a cow in your mind) & eventually the thought of something fun to do takes over & then I don’t need the garbage feeds anymore. Free dopamine!