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Re:My Struggle with Doom Scrolling on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @09:52PM (#42800138)
Siri home-pod mini “Hey Siri- set alarm for…” or “Hey Siri- what is the time”. Added benefit of now glowing LED in your bedroom and you can play relaxing sleep sounds if needed.
Re:My Struggle with Doom Scrolling on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @09:48PM (#42800106)
Physical barrier could simply be getting a timed K-safe lock box an sticking your smartphone inside it for a configured amount of time
Re:My Struggle with Doom Scrolling on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @09:42PM (#42800064)
Not op but I just got a home-pod mini and just ask Siri “Hey Siri - set an alarm for …” or “Hey Siri - what time is it”. Added benefit of not having a glowing LED light in my room at night
well established companies in an industry where there is not much competition or incentives to make drastic changes fit the bill
Re:Playstation 5 Pro on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @10:30PM (#41507532)
It does have an optical drive but it is sold separately
Re:DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @02:27PM (#38785559)
A kvm switch can reduce that down to 1 button press.
Re:A structured note-taking app for personal use on Friday December 22, 2023 @09:30AM (#38734436)
Hey I follow that first guy on Goodreads. Good taste in book he has.
Re:It Will Never Be a Good Time to Buy a House on Sunday November 26, 2023 @01:20PM (#38423676)
The alternative is to pay as little as you can, while diversifying the remaining cash elsewhere. For example, an ETF tracking the S&P500
Noopept is a potential candidate for another replacement. It’s basically has a similar safety profile but it’s more potent and requires much less to achieve the desired effect.
Yes buts it’s inevitable that the child at some point will notice other adults/people who use the smartphone in that manner so the belief that it’s okay to passively consume will be reinforced no matter what the parents behavior is
Re:Google account deleted after 2 hours of Aurora on Saturday May 27, 2023 @09:29PM (#36100234)
Just use privacy.com to make burner cards with a fixed amount as a fail-safe for this
It's main thing these days is its compile-time function executing and ‘design by introspection’.
Comparison is the thief of joy my friend :)
Re:The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964) on Thursday March 24, 2022 @10:37PM (#30798103)
to those thinking about using these as your intro to physics, I would think again. Its common sentiment among the physics crowd that these are nice to go through after you understand the concepts, not as an introduction. Usually your junior year summer go through them for fun if you have the time
Re:Geniuses of the past were aristocratically tutored on Thursday March 17, 2022 @12:56AM (#30707808)
developments in education technology is actually driving to to do exactly that, personalized learning curriculum designed to expose the user at their own pace and using heuristics to create learning schedules
Re:Fitbit is now officially part of Google on Thursday January 14, 2021 @10:56AM (#25777863)
Well in that case the person would be going to jail because he can't be trusted with not exposing private information, so another form of protection
Re:A half-hour to learn Rust on Saturday January 02, 2021 @08:28AM (#25612706)
Here is another similar resource for learning new programming language's on the fly

https://learnxinyminutes.com/

On a slightly related note, I really am enjoying the browser extension "remove youtube suggestions" My home page and completely blank and any video that I watch has no recommendations on the side. I like it this way because I won't get sucked into a rabbit hole of youtube videos. I also have comments turned off