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
If you have someone close you can trust there is probably a way to add a kiosk mode to your app and let the friend keep the password to unlock it. It could have roles about what apps, websites etc are allowed and hours.
I did very little research in it to help my brother out but I didn’t get far. I got the feeling that it’s doable even on a locked bootloader. Sorry that I don’t have more info but maybe it can set you off on the right direction.
appreciate the comment nonetheless, good on you to help your brother out
it’s easy to get complacent when alone. i gave my phone battery to my roomie just today