Entertainment Priority
Passion and purpose
When you are so engrossed in life with your passion and you have a purpose to love, you forget about all entertainment at all!
I have been in this stage once and it's the best thing ever. You will never need to play a game at all.
Non-Display Outdoor Leisure Activity
And I don't mean just travelling and tourism. That requires a lot of free time and a lot of money if you intend to do it on a regular basis.
No, I am talking about just stuff you can go out and do as a community. Maybe like horse-riding, shooting, real life driving, karate, dancing and a lot of other stuff(NOT THROUGH A SCREEN).
Non-Display Outdoor Gaming
Physical outdoor games whichever ones you can find nearby that moves you physically.
Non-Display Indoor Leisure Activities
Painting, drawing, dancing on your own, physical books, audiobooks, gardening, fixing stuff, singing and so so so many leisure entertainment.
Non-Display Indoor Gaming
Carrom Boards, Board games, Puzzle games and all that stuff comes here where you don't necessarily leave the house and doesn't require as much moving around.
Video Games that don't play you
Movies
TV Series
Live TV
Social Media/Talking with AI as if it was a human
Video Games that play you/Gambling and all other vices
General
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Introduction and why
There was a time when the internet was in infancy and people loved the ability to share the world with someone from the other side of the planet. I remember playing Microsoft Reversi for the first time with a stranger as a kid and it blew my mind that I was playing it with a real person from some other country. And then we found Wikipedia and how useful it was in cross-checking a lot of stuff. Online gaming and so so so many things that were pretty cool for the first time.Then slowly something changed. Some companies realized that they can make money out of these online stuff and everything started to change from sharing thing for the heck of it to sharing stuff that makes money. And then, some evil people realized, let's hire bunch of scientists and psychologists and make these social apps as addictive as possible. So just simple willpower won't be enough. You can't just expect that you will start to change without deploying some crucial strategies.I wanted to share strategies that have helped me live a better digital life. -
Digital Health is about video/audio stuff only, not in general, be it study, entertainment, work or anything
This should be quite clear but this will become relevant as we start to move from Digital to Physical Entertainment.
Gaming now simply means video games but from where I come, physical real world gaming is where gaming is at, not the digital stuff.
Similarly this will expand into other forms of entertainment soon and of course, not just entertainment also. -
I thought I had no imagination due to long video entertainment exposure
I want to talk a bit about some of the experiences I had with fiction audiobooks. As I said earlier I thought I lacked imagination and if I didn't see a video of something I didn't fully grasp it.
I used to watch movies before hand then read the books and watch the movies after listinge to the books so that I can assign each character thier own image becaue I thoought I can't imagine things in my head.
Or so I thought.
As it turns out I really can imaginge many many scenarios in my head. After listeing to many audio9books and actively not watching their related movies completely I have very strong memeories from the books I have listentn to. THe sceen in the second Reacher Novel about the reacher breaking free from his chains was just freaking aamzing and I can see it so clearly in my head. i listened to this section again and again. The whole next book, same thing. I can vividly see the forests whre the shootouts happened, how burns jeep was transported from chanook and more.
And same for sherlcok holmes stories whose videos I didn't watch like the engineer's thumb or the german student case.
I appreciate the video enternaiment. I really do. I loved the reacher TV show and that got me into th books in thef irst place and same with sherlcok. I loved the tv show and that's what got me into thebooks. I loved Jeremy Berett's acting especailly abouit when he let a man go in the blue carbuncle, it was different from the books but it was pretty amaziong.
However, now I am breaking the pattern. I am purposely avoiding video enternatiment so that I can enjoy the books and their imaginatyions properly.
Even narnia and the series of unfortunate events were so full of "color" that I can't ever think of ruining that wiht a movie.
There are so many books pending like Piroirot and more which I have never and will never watch the tv/video/movies atll.
Also, one last thing since I am linsteint to these books my hands are completely free which I am using to create many systems like myurhoosom, small DIY stuff or sometimes even rsearching laptops. With video enteritentin, incluign gaming, they all stopped.
Experiments/Challenges
Strategies that helped me
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Physical Manga instead of Video Entertainment while eating
#TODO
Fiction Audiobooks as breaks while doing said courses
Stopped forcing others to watch TV/Movie/Video Entertainment I liked at all.
#TODO
Stopped trying to pull parents away from social media doomscrolling. If that's where they want to spend their time, so be it.
#TODO Earlier I used to try to do this a lot but I don't anymore.
Videos without Blogs
Archived Old Stuff that needs to be sorted
Strategies that helped with digital health
Making YouTube on PC to not show you 💩 all the time
That's the Chrome Extension & here's the website for other browser extensions
The Side-bar
For quite some time I have been having a lot of issues with Youtube on Desktop. I can't avoid going on youtube as part of my work and even though I don't search stuff on yotuube since it's broken horribly in the past many years, I still find it everywhere and have to check the videos out.
The problem is the side-bar mainly, which keeps recommendign me highly engineered content for me to see and no matter how hard I try, there is always something highly engineered to make sure that I watch it. This had to stop and with a few internet searches I found out the extension which I have been using for weeks now and it has gone away.
The Home Page
The extension also targets youtube homepage. Althought it has not been as intriuisive as the side-bar, there is always some sort of thumbnail and text that has been made highly click-baitey and one can't help but click it.
Note: I should point out that all these problems don't exist on Android Phones and Tablets if you know about Revanced which is the next section here.
Making YouTube on Android Phones/Tablets to not show you 💩 all the time
This is slightly more complex than the one on PC and requires some setup and some cautions. The answer is revanced.app if you can't wait for the videos and the blog to complete here.
Intention for change and you can't force it on others - In Progress
Everyone has to make this choice for himself and you can't just start enforcing others to change just because of you. It's worse if they are kids. You might think you have control over them but they will simply stop telling you and doing it in secret anyways, so, it is a decision they have to make for themselves unless they are really small, in which case, stop putting black rectangles in their hands and start putting physical toys or DIY kits. I know, I tried this on my Roblox/Minecraft obsessed little brother by getting a science experiment kit