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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • I turned 30 half a year ago. I was a gamer all my life (got my first console with 5 that forced me to learn how to read). We got our first internet connection in 2003 or 2004, where I spent hours on blogs and such. I got addicted to Minecraft from 2012-2013 and to YouTube from around 2013 until 2015, but it was long term content back then, like 30-60 minute videos of full concentration, multiple videos on the same topic. I got fit and a gym rat from 2017-2019 (switched to iPhone), then I got the Samsung Fold and the android ecosystem made me game more again (emulators, docked on tv, mostly rom hacks). Then I got back to iPhone and with the loss of gaming I got social media addicted. First Reddit, which wasn’t that bad, but after the API-changes I ditched it and short form video content filled my free time. I got into meditation, more specific the focus on my own body, and somehow didn’t feel the need for those videos anymore. But when I failed a test at work, it broke me and since then I can’t get into meditation anymore. Heck, I‘m spending about 3-4 hours a day on short form video content…

    Edit: my SIL is 20 years old and experienced fhat right after school. Gotta need to ask my cousin, she‘ll be 13 this summer


  • Yes. It is due to doomscrolling and such. Our minds can’t create new memories, because it needs at least 15 seconds of mental concentration on a single topic to do so, so it all just blends together. We also receive a month worth of new stuff in a single day, this overloads our brain. Most people who weren’t addicted to TikTok before COVID but then got caught in the TikTokification of everything else feel a strong cut between pre- and post-COVID.

    I for myself have this half year last year where I meditated daily and did not use my phone besides gaming, chatting, calling and hobbies that feels like an eternity. I want to get back into that mindset but so far I’ve failed horribly.


  • We here in the Apple Garden know that Apple takes all our usage data and trust then that they are used anonymously. But Apple has no access to data when it is encrypted, they even warn you when you encrypt your data that you need to safe the keys yourself, they can only delete everything if you lose them.

    I was in a similar situation, but I got a MacBook M1 for literally everything but PC exclusive gaming, and I kept my gaming rig dual booting windows (on the HDD) and Pop!_OS (boots automatically, saved on SSD).

    Why did I get a MacBook? I just wanted it. I‘d probably throw SteamOS on the gaming rig one day and use steam-link with an Ethernet cable to stream the games to the MacBook.

    And yes, Linux is really easy to use nowadays. I’ve been thinking of throwing a lightweight distro onto my parents laptop. They only use Firefox so they won’t even notice it lol