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Productive is not what I’d call what I do but anyway: I don’t follow things that make me miserable or even just “people”. My feeds are full of all kinds of fun stuff, like my fandoms or science or art. So I don’t ever “doom scroll”, really, but read about what other people thought about that newest episode or some new thought they had about an ancient episode or general fan squealing about a ship or the newest weird findings about spinosaurus or ‘look at these new photos Perseverance has taken’ or ‘look at this detail in this awesome painting’ or ‘this is how to improve this aspect in your drawings’.

Yes I am on tumblr. Yes I am on tumblr too much.

I mean… there’s porn

-Get a lot of spam calls and texts

-Read e-books

-Keep email notifications up to remind me to check them on desktop

-Watch Youtube to fall asleep

-Listen to my work in progress songs between working on them, take notes on what to do next

I read. I will typically have a ‘big read’, a couple of other novels, a non-fiction and maybe a short story anthology on the go at any one point.

Read news, articles, watch science/politics/etc. videos, look at art on Instagram where I post some of my own. And that’s it.

As people mentioned, looking at the camera’s gallery. Plenty of pics of my cats over there.

Read ebooks. Check email.

I read the first page of hacker news twice a day. Once in the morning, and once at night. Usually nothing comes of it, but sometimes some new tech shows up with immediate application for one of my clients. Or someone posts something really insightful that makes me think.

If I want to play a game on my phone for 15 minutes? Fallen London. Great writing, tons of content.

I (strictly) have no social media apps on my phone. My rule is to decide how to spend time, then do it – never ever just do things to ‘kill time’ (it is, after all, time that kills us).

If I don’t know what to do, I study. I pick a subject and try to learn it to an ‘average’ level of competence. I typically do this ~2 hours a day, and it’s been my conscious habit for approximately 25 years so far. This is hard, but possible to do on a phone. Sometimes I’ll do research on a phone, and save the links to read properly on a laptop later. If I scroll on a phone, it is an act of hunger and hope.

People sometimes tell me to ‘live a little’. I don’t think they know the difference between living and dying. Every day, I become more. My neighbors spend their days at home drinking and eating – every day, they become less.

Pull it out. Look at the time. Remember I didn’t want to doomscroll. Put it back. Repeat.

Way too much music and occasionally working on some personal writing projects that don’t end up anywhere because I have started so many that I lose interest in an idea/story.

I use mine to SSH into my homelab and fix misbehaving servers so I can use them on the go.

I also have rustc and my full neovim configuration installed inside of termux, so sometimes when I’m really desperate I can write code on the go too. Using neovim and an onscreen keyboard with an escape key and easy access to symbols makes the experience of writing code on a touchscreen… I won’t say good. I won’t even say tolerable. It makes the experience marginally less agonizing.

Using neovim with a Bluetooth keyboard however is an experience basically equivalent to desktop apart from screen size. On long car trips when in the backseat I like to wedge my phone in the headrest and use it like a tiny laptop. The performance isn’t as bad as you’d think.

Check mails, check Lemmy, check WhatsApp, check Discord. If it wasn’t for WhatsApp, I could probably live without a phone.

I guess I also use it to keep the Arch install guide open until I learn the process by heart.

Nothing, really. I only check the chats with my best friends, look at the time, and check the school timetable (I do have it on paper, but they always make some changes and then I’m the idiot for going to the wrong class…)

I use maps for navigation (mostly OsmAnd) and improve OpenStreetMap with my self-made website (https://mapcomplete.org)

Mostly multi-factor authentication for my day job, because I work for a bunch of cunts who won’t spring for a company phone for company apps. The only reason I even have an iPhone is that my mobile provider was giving 'em away for free while forcing people to upgrade to 5G devices.

And if I ever get to retire, first thing I’m doing is getting rid of my phone and home internet connection. If I need internet I’ll use a VPN over free wifi at the public library.