background: got a fairphone 5, stock android version 15 because of digital ID necessity or else i effectively lose citizenship (we gotta push back against this in the nordics but that’s sociology & bureaucracy so saving it for another thread)
i got: • zero amount of TikTok YouTube etc. apps • greyscale • brightness turnt down • screen usage tracker apps
here’s my screentime stats for this week
it’s literally all from ThreadiVerse (PieFed with Interstellar client), FLOS dating apps (Alovoa & Duolicious) + a regional non-free dating app forum suite and lastly reading manga watching porn…
i’ve never been this much bedrotting since i was a teen in the 2010s and not even then.
what i need is a way to enforce recommended guidelines that do exist for phone (ab)use: • that the phone shuts off after 2 hours of screentime per day. alternatively blank screen or just annoyance. • second-long breaks/timeouts every few minutes.
that is literally all. on a linux OS like PostMarketOS, SailFishOS, UbuntuTouch this is guaranteed doable, right? i can make the OS switch and appreciate insight into an operator implementing this in comments so that all can learn. it’s surely a meagre >=99 LoC shellscript source code to implement.
but on android? idk if that’s allowed or even possible to implement on stock android.
what are your thoughts? abhorring situation, all replies welcome. let’s keep it a constructive thread since this is a public health issue i wanna bring up in the open
buddy bootstraps
it’s nothing to do with willpower in the year-long run - that’s the rationalization of “they do it to themselves, beats me”
it’s all to do with the habits and compensations of unfulfilled life situations. unsatisfied life situations will lead to screen abuse like this. it’s adding weight on my autistic loner ass, no amount of going out to meet people and pet dogs and willpowering through habits changes the grooves of that river. i’ve reached out to have a psychologist to analyze this in the meantime since writing: they immediatly bring up acceptance for the issue and begin by (with me) breaking down the needs involved with my screentime.
• calendar • notebooks, quick-info, diary • creative outlet notebook
then the chats and porn and videogames which are a longer haul to breakdown.
none of this willpowering thru- just writing that down to anyone stuck believing the advice of “just pull yourself up by the bootstraps.”
thank you, i got irritated, but make this constructive