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the paradox is sitting by a screen to look for- and pull together some help with screen-addiction. open diary (piefed.social)
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tonight i wrote a post in a drug-help forum in my country. then i shared it with a few near and dear to gauge their reaction to me writing in such severe honesty - i have told them alot but never gotten much recognition. this time it was wellwishes. som initial response i got i wanna share: "so you're a junkie now?" to which i lauded "sure, e-junkie."

social norms are weird and i'm sure i'd exhaust by writing, as interested as i am, just how much i wanna have added to the topic.
so i'll just wrap up with another response i got: "ironic that you look online for help against onlineaddiction." fucking ironic yea.

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[–] [S] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

i don't count an e-reader either, no.

nature & animals are truly what keeps being my font of wellbeing likewise. i adore that you keep a hammock and an e-reader around. those aren't big nor heavy to carry around either. would you fancy sharing some recommended reading from what you keep on your e-reader in a forumpost? i have had trouble deciding

apologies on the broken up relationship, i do feel that screen issue with texting alot: right now i'm flirting with someone and this is a big reason why i stay online literally all day. 45 minutes is an amazing screentime you've reached, that it's 15 minutes sometimes per day is mindbogglingly impressive to me. in liason with the article i disseminated here your anecdote on awareness then seems like a prominent take-away: a screen timer for each screen. didn't know Piefed has a timer- immensely helpful.

yes with your work hours being put behind a screen then that's quite some screentime in total. do you turn off the colours on your work screen? apparently a colourless screen (atleast accessibility settings -> high contrast mode) would decrease blue light. i turnt that on today, but it didn't remove all colours and my screen is quite bright at it's lowest, so i've yet to feel much difference.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Today has been wrecking my Piefed timer lol, it's a slow Friday.

    Reading suggestions really depends on what you like reading. I love "hard" sci-fi. Recently I have been voraciously consuming Greg Egan's body of work. I just finished Permutation City yesterday, started Distress today. I originally found this author after finding his book Diaspora on a reading list, and I really REALLY liked it. His more recent "Orthogonal" trilogy is fascinating, the characters are somewhat more flat, but the physics of the universe the series is set in is so thoroughly fleshed out. That universe consists of 4 identical dimensions instead of the 3 spatial and 1 time of our own universe. Many of the characters are scientists and explorers trying to make sense of their world, and there are sometimes just pages of equations to explain one small thing, which... I just love it so much.

    Before tackling Egan's work, I read Ra by Qntm. They did some writing for the SCP foundation, and that same vibe really comes through in their work. Ra has such an interesting premise, and there were many twists in the fundamental understanding of what was really going on, I couldn't put that book down. Qntm wrote some other short stories, which are on my list to read next once I finish Distress.

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