cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/22178371
It leads to aimless scrolling and sometimes reading if I’m motivated.
There was a web game in probably early 2000s. It was some lil guy who climbs a tall ladder to get into a spaceship, maybe with his dog? and goes to another planet. I think his spaceship breaks down and he has to explore the other world to fix it?
I don’t think any of the characters spoke words but instead intoned sounds/notes, and the background music was generally calming and chill. I remember it being visually appealing to look at, but I don’t much remember particular scenes (besides getting in the spaceship).
No recollection of what it was called. I’ve tried to look online before but forums discussing games with similar themes have not been fruitful.
No but I spend a lot of time trying to find videos or pages about something im really interested in.
Currently its i3 atlas, the interstellar “comet” that acts nothing like an ordinary comet and more like an artificial object. Absolutely fascinating.
Dopamine. But this past decade I rarely feel better after checking my feed than I did before.
Community.
yeah, pretty much.
too corpo. not enough independent.
It’s just so massive now, almost anything is forgotten within days, buried under the next days clickbait articles and circular discussions, it’s there forever, but buried, so there’s a kind of unsatisfying impermanence to it now. Since it’s all algorithms instead of being curated by humans there is just a less organic feel and I don’t like it lol.
Does anyone else
Yes
Use your connectivity purposefully. E.g. how to train your cat to do X. Look it up, then spend some time doing that. Something come to mind that you’re wondering about? E.g. where does X come from, or why is Y happening? Do some research. Better than swallowing the fire hose of random stuff the algorithms are feeding you.
The only thing you’re missing out on is your own life. Don’t let the algorithms tell you what your life should be and what you should be thinking about. I promise you that if there’s something really important, you’ll hear about it and then you can do your own research on it.
I haven’t related to a feeling so much in recent time
I power the computer, launch terminal(htop), text editor, obsidian, webapps, firefox, reddit(webapps)lemmy(webapps+ sometimes),tumblr(webapps) youtube(webapps) and all there bookmark managers and then 20 mins in, the computer crashes
I recognize i have a problem here but i am sure what exactly it is and what does the solution look like. How do you all browser on PCs and how do you deal with the fear of missing out(what i assume is happening here)? How many social medias is too much?
I think of my time with devices like a “food pyramid,” as though that concept ever made sense -
- time on phones: designed to be distracting; tightly controlled by corporations; very bad
- using web browser: much better control, but still limited to corporate controlled ecosystems; better to focus on the “tiny web,” the fediverse, and other unique experiences and events like connecting with remote loved ones, Twitch Plays Pokemon, web fiction & art like creepypastas and SCP
- using e-reader: controlled by user and authors with minimal intrusion by corporations; designed for long focus; ties into deep traditions of form while still supporting powerful features like dictionary lookups, searching, etc (emacs might should also go in here somewhere but I am tired)
What helped me overcoming FOMO was just missing out on stuff online or in online games on purpose and realizing that I didn’t actually missed out on anything.
Why would you open up all of those things at once if it keeps crashing?
Why not just open one thing, and when you’re done move on to another?
Like, I would say get more RAM, but that’s not really an answer these days
I don’t feel like I’m looking for something specific, as much as waiting for something to happen.
I have a lot of stuff I check multiple times per day, my google news feed, lemmy, youtube, and a few specific reddits. I also spend a lot of time on Discord in like a dozen different servers.
The “something has happened” part makes me happy briefly, but I’ve realized it doesn’t really do anything for me in terms of advancing my life, so I pretty much treat it like video game time. Doesn’t mean I’ve stopped doing it, but I’ve tried to pull back a little bit.
This is definitely on point for myself as well. If it were also OPs problem, I’d say his high when the “something has happened” high hits has become so minuscule as to be almost non-existant and now he is in a desperate search for anything he can find. But also maybe he has an entirely different root cause.
I browse when I want but my analysis isn’t the same. I don’t feel like I’m missing out when not browsing. In fact, it’s the opposite. I know I’m missing out (on real life) by browsing. I don’t think I will ever look back and say “damn I wish I browsed more”.
Do you ever look at htop during/around the time of crashing? Notice anything unusual?
Fallout 5. Kenshi 2.
My self worth.
