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Re:Modern Luddites: On Being a Digital Minimalist Family in ... by Bumblonono on Thursday July 18, 2024 @11:56AM (#40996914)
My problem are youtube videos which talk about science, diy, woodworking, metal working, history, math etc.

I'm not addicted to software, i'm addicted to entertainmened optimized for grabbing my attention.

And the comparision to cigs is not far away. They have also been designed to be addictive, a lot of people struggle for their whole live to get away from them.

My planning brain can easily see what i don't want to do or have, my doing brain is not strong enough to then just execute on this. Otherwise i would be a rich, supersporty, multilingual expert in multiply fields.

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Re:Modern Luddites: On Being a Digital Minimalist Family in ... by ndriscoll on Thursday July 18, 2024 @12:58PM (#40997547)
Make a shell script that runs yt-dlp for the channels that have worthwhile information. Don't fall into the trap of thinking that videos which "talk about" math and science are educational, when they are in fact entertainment. e.g. [0] is education. [1] is education. [2] is entertainment.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@FredericSchuller

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@khanacademy

[2] https://www.youtube.com/@kurzgesagt

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