Mundane emotions: Losing yourself in boredom, time and technology (2022)

Re:Mundane emotions: Losing yourself in boredom, time and te... by matheusmoreira on Saturday December 02, 2023 @09:15PM (#38504170)

> obsessively refreshing hacker news is my doom scrolling

Yeah. I really need to add this site to my hosts file or something. I learn a lot here but I want to do other stuff too...

> I then started volunteering with the local emergency service which has been one of the best life decisions I’ve made.

Thank you for your work. I'm sure it's made a huge difference in a lot of people's lives.

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Re:Mundane emotions: Losing yourself in boredom, time and te... by layer8 on Saturday December 02, 2023 @10:07PM (#38504447)

See the noprocrast setting in your HN user account.

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Re:Mundane emotions: Losing yourself in boredom, time and te... by matheusmoreira on Saturday December 02, 2023 @10:11PM (#38504471)

Huh. Can't believe I never noticed this. I'm gonna enable it. Thanks.

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Re:Mundane emotions: Losing yourself in boredom, time and te... by matheusmoreira on Sunday December 03, 2023 @08:49AM (#38507041)

Thanks!!! I finished a feature in my project yesterday because this setting kicked me out of HN. Really cool.

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Re:Mundane emotions: Losing yourself in boredom, time and te... by imglorp on Sunday December 03, 2023 @11:11AM (#38508088)

Or, for diehards that doom scroll other sites too, try the LeechBlock browser extension.

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