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Re:I cured my tech fatigue by ditching feeds by dominotw on Sunday October 29, 2017 @08:43AM (#15579088)
blocking the site in /etc/hosts helped me a lot. I 've given up medium, reddit, all news sites. I add a site to /etc/hosts as soon as I feel like i am spending too much time on it.

Interesting comment about 'owing it my kids' , I always felt like I am whiling my life away because I don't have kids and hence don't feel like taking like seriously.

If I don't have kids, what am I striving for ?

Re:I cured my tech fatigue by ditching feeds by pault on Sunday October 29, 2017 @09:50AM (#15579276)
Good question. A sense of accomplishment is a small pleasure, but it scales better than activities that provide high highs but inevitable low lows. Most people have an emotional equilibrium state; stresses and rewards can temporarily move the needle, but it tends to return to center regardless of the circumstance. Given that a lifetime of low-effort activity tends to limit opportunities for broadening your horizons and doesn't have a lasting contribution to happiness, a simple cost-benefit analysis indicates that dedication to personal growth is the best value for time spent. Ultimately, life only has the meaning you assign to it, so if you're optimizing for pleasure, learning and creative pursuits hold the most potential.
Re:I cured my tech fatigue by ditching feeds by dredmorbius on Sunday October 29, 2017 @10:42AM (#15579481)
I have a large set of sites blocked at the router via dnsmasq, which scales well.

(It also means my unrooted mobile device ... doesn't have such protections when it's outside the Mothership.)