Re:My Struggle with Doom Scrolling
by YinglingHeavy on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @08:46PM
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It's as if no one realizes their phone as a monochrome mode, which can be set as an 'accessibility' shortcut via simple button press.
Black and white kills the dopamine cycle and brings color back to your real life.
Re:My Struggle with Doom Scrolling
by alexey-salmin on Thursday January 23, 2025 @12:04AM
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I guess it depends, grayscale changed nothing for me, I barely noticed the difference.
Or you're talking about literal black-and-white, as in 2 colors no grey?
Re:My Struggle with Doom Scrolling
by SamuelAdams on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @09:23PM
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I do this a lot when I am around my 6 month old daughter. We can already see a very clear difference in her engagement and curiosity when she sees a colored phone versus a monochrome phone. She grabs for the phone less and quickly returns to previous activity if she notices a monochrome phone.
I like this. Testing the browser extension now and pretty happy with it (after tweaking so returning to a tab has a grace period). I was using StayFocused, which is okay, but too tempting to just disable it (and annoying if I need to access a blocked site for work purposes).
OneSec [1] is the only one that worked for me. It's quick enough that I'm not tempted to disable it, yet annoying enough that makes me think twice if I really want to open app X for the third time today.
Also it's just a polite nudge, rather than a full block, or condescending messages saying "you've hit your time limit for today" (that make you feel bad and make you want to immediately disable the thing in the first place).
Wish parental controls were designed with the same principles.
[1] https://one-sec.app/