Ask HN: What productive things do you do on your phone in place of social media?

Re:Ask HN: What productive things do you do on your phone in... by themodelplumber on Saturday July 09, 2022 @09:53PM (#32041147)

I built my own boredom-killer while I was on vacation a while back, mindlessly surfing Facebook and other sites...

https://www.friendlyskies.net/fmk/index.php?tpl=Boredom-Curi...

Some of those things are more productive than others, depending. Is phys.org productive? Maybe. Listening to The Odyssey via Librivox? Could be.

Meditative art via The Useless Web? Maybe also productive...

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Re:Ask HN: What productive things do you do on your phone in... by collimator on Saturday July 09, 2022 @10:43PM (#32041375)

I picked up a hard copy of The Odyssey recently. I'm sure it must be much better when listened to - it makes very flowery (florid?) reading.

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Re:Ask HN: What productive things do you do on your phone in... by themodelplumber on Saturday July 09, 2022 @11:30PM (#32041592)

Personally I switched away after about 15 minutes, probably going back to Dracula. Dracula is more procedural, it's like the main character reading out his computer program of a life, at the beginning anyway.

TO was interesting in some ways but read a bit like the dedication to the crown in the KJV. I did wonder if there are translations that make it more fun for the less-flowery-minded...

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