Not Lemmy. Not Reddit.
Mostly tumblr, Lemmy, reddit, and occasionally Wikipedia for me. Most people I know would be on Instagram, but I can’t stand it.
Me:
- Open Maps
- Stare at it
- Mentally think to my self this is my life now (say, I’m waiting at an appointment for something)
- Press home buttom
- Open App list
- Scroll up and down
- To back to home page
- STARE at it, pretending I’m busy doing something
- Oh shit maybe I should actually do something
- Realize I actually haven’t taken the time to download anything beforehand
- Downloads Lichess
- Actually I wanna just browse wikipedia
- Find an article for what stuff I have on my mind
- STARE at it, pretending I’m reading an ebook
- Actually I can’t focus, home screen again
- Opens the notes app
-
- blank note
- Hmm okay lets write a poem… how am I feeling right now…
- Writes 1-2 line…
- Fuck I can’t think of anything else… my head hurts…
- Press homescreen
- Stare at it for 10 seconds
- Turn it off
- Spin the phone around like a fidget spinner
- Bored af
Lichess best chess
https://lichess.org/ is great even on a computer, not just on a phone. I don’t play on my phone, but I do like to play from time to time on lichess :)
I think you have ADHD, right?
Officially, no. I only have Depression and Anxiety.
Short form videos and social media?
How the fuck is anyone here supposed to answer that? There’s nobody normal here!
The way normal works, if everyone here on lemmy does something one way, then that becomes the normal. There’s no universal normal, because normal is always relative to context. The broader the context, then the wider and more diverse the normal becomes.
Or as my statistics professor liked to say “normal is a curve, get over it”.
It is important that we observe humanity, that we may less noticeably walk in the midst of it. By comparing notes, we maximize our observations.
I’m not normal, but I’m guessing some mix of Instagram, TikTok, and Shorts. But, maybe there’s more casino / gatcha games, too.
i don’t do anything on my phone. it’s a flip phone with data and wifi disabled on the device, and sms disabled at the carrier. it’s quite literally just a ‘telephone’.
if i go somewhere where i might expect a long wait alone (like to a doctor’s appointment), i’ll take a paperback with me.
Listen to music
Recently I watched a guy in a movie theater before the movie started fiddling with his phone. In rapid fire, he was scrolling Instagram, liking things and stopping on hot ladies. Switch over to facebook and quick scroll that. Send a link to a friend. Then doomscroll reddit.
I don’t think he stopped to read a thing beyond the headline except for boobs.
(Sam Elliott voice) He too is god’s handiwork.
I don’t think he stopped to read a thing beyond the headline except for boobs.
wait…is this not how the internet is supposed to work?
Read articles I’ve saved to my self hosted readeck.
Oh you said normal people …
Open Termux, open Qt Creator and VS Code, write code, compile code, test code, fix bugs, git commit.
On your phone? Writing code on a virtual keyboard is awful, how do you do that?
I attach my wired Deltaco WK90b to it. Bada bing bada boom. 🙂
Normal people don’t need a phone to pass the time.
With that being said, the amount of brain rot competing for our attention is staggering.
my wife: short-form video (mostly insta reels, I think).
me: language learning app or ebook.
Normal people scroll social media. Instagram. Maybe buy something the ad tells them they need. Then send messages or videos to friends and chats. That’s about it.
I just started Dungeon Crawler Carl on my phone.
