What in the hell is happenin' over in the Olive garden app!?

WTF are you doing with Olive Garden, Dan?

You're a slacker if it's not 100% LinkedIn.

Will I fall into this obvious trap for discussing the grotesque volume of time spent on the Olive Garden app? No. No i will not. … fuck.

(Cries in Big Mac sauce.)

In my defense, this is after work.

Olive Garden might just be as bad as Uber, where loading it for a short time drains an inordinate amount of battery.

Uh oh…

Wow, Termux is at the top for me, at 86%. I know my phone often gets notably warm while building packages in Termux, but that is surprising.

iPhone creates a Screen Time report if you want to see actual usage and not just battery usage.

No idea what "Olive Garden" is - is it used all day, or is it just a shitty programmed app that it eats up the battery?

My phone is a YouTube player apparently. Teams and Outlook for work.

If you run an android device, or any other computer that doesn't allow the user to do basic things like close apps. You should make use of the battery optimization settings.

On android every app that you don't want real time updates from should be set to restricted battery mode, and background data to off.

The only time you need background data is for real time updates or background play in apps like YouTube or Spotify.

This feature will almost certainly get removed in the future if history is any indication, so enjoy having decent battery life and better networking performance while it lasts.

This review of Olive Garden went viral, and the review/reviewer was mocked online---but then Anthony Bourdain came to her defense.

Kinda a cute story, and a fun read.

LOL

I'm sorry, I don't wanna break the funny, so if you're just here to laugh, the please feel free to do so.

If you are suffering:
Real Phone addiction, which a lot of people nowadays have, takes lifes. It is nothing to joke with. Get a professional if you can. It will erode you physical wellness, your social groups, your grades, your working capacity, you will get severe depression, anxiety, will lack hunger. We all know where that can lead.

Fight it, you have ambitions. The phone does not make you happy.

You should put your phone in a cabinet. Ideally in a space where other people can see it during the day. Then loudly announce to them that you're limiting your screen time in that way.
This is the first step: Admitting it, full stop, nothing to be ashamed of.

When you catch yourself doing more than standing awkwardly in front of the cabinet to answer messages from friends and family you should fix that by putting the phone back into the cabinet. If this is too hard, buy a timed phone safe. Make sure to have a way to call the fire department.
That's the second step: Correcting yourself. Just don't get frustrated, it's not you, it's your addiction.

And then when you can leave that shitter in there for as long as you want without thinking of it in a longingly way, then you can finally start living a life without your addiction. It won't be gone, mind you.
And that's the final step: Consistency.

After a long time of personal development you may even completely make your addiction disappear, but this takes a long time.
Personal development will happen along the way. You will be surprised how much emotion you will have without your phone. You will want to do stuff again.

Good luck. BANISH THAT FUCKER.

Matter of fact, I'll have to put something away.

Sounds like an Olive Garden shill. Subliminal marketing.

I no longer have Twatter on my phone, best decision I made in years.

Maybe I should listen to fewer podcasts...

Alt text: Antenna pod using 46% of battery, notably no social media apps are present :P

Surrogate family?

The Great Breadstick Debate continues apace.

Btw, is there a open source app to display a warning after a certain time of use?

Yes, Android has "Digital Wellbeing" but that spams me for "no play services found", because i removed them.