WTF are you doing with Olive Garden, Dan?
coffee and breadsticks on my day off shuddup
Will I fall into this obvious trap for discussing the grotesque volume of time spent on the Olive Garden app? No. No i will not. … fuck.
(Cries in Big Mac sauce.)
It must be bugged and busy-looping in the background.
Nah, guy just LOVES Olive Garden.
I’m sorry, I don’t wanna break the funny, so if you’re just here to laugh, the please feel free to do so.
If you are suffering:
Real Phone addiction, which a lot of people nowadays have, takes lifes. It is nothing to joke with. Get a professional if you can. It will erode you physical wellness, your social groups, your grades, your working capacity, you will get severe depression, anxiety, will lack hunger. We all know where that can lead.Fight it, you have ambitions. The phone does not make you happy.
You should put your phone in a cabinet. Ideally in a space where other people can see it during the day. Then loudly announce to them that you’re limiting your screen time in that way.
This is the first step: Admitting it, full stop, nothing to be ashamed of.When you catch yourself doing more than standing awkwardly in front of the cabinet to answer messages from friends and family you should fix that by putting the phone back into the cabinet. If this is too hard, buy a timed phone safe. Make sure to have a way to call the fire department.
That’s the second step: Correcting yourself. Just don’t get frustrated, it’s not you, it’s your addiction.And then when you can leave that shitter in there for as long as you want without thinking of it in a longingly way, then you can finally start living a life without your addiction. It won’t be gone, mind you.
And that’s the final step: Consistency.After a long time of personal development you may even completely make your addiction disappear, but this takes a long time.
Personal development will happen along the way. You will be surprised how much emotion you will have without your phone. You will want to do stuff again.Good luck. BANISH THAT FUCKER.
Matter of fact, I’ll have to put something away.
Why not just get a dumb phone at that point? You can call and text and all, and then do the important online stuff on computer. You won’t have the benefits of a smart phone, but if your addiction is so bad you have to stash the damn thing anyway, that doesn’t seem such a bad deal
Did you write that on your phone? Or on your computer? Same addiction.
Phone.
Then you should’ve put the phone back in the cabinet. Follow your rules.
I did do that.
I still use it from time to time.So you were standing there all uncomfortably in the kitchen while you typed that out with your thumbs? You did send a good message though. Everything you said is pretty true except I don’t think most people would want to store their phone in their cabinet. Our phones are not only addictive, but if we can get past that addiction they still come in handy and they are essential to daily life.
Okay, first of I have no idea with whatever else I would be typing rather than my thumbs.
Second of, I do sometimes stand in front my cabinet, sometimes I take it out for a few minutes. But it never gets to an hour anymore. Using my phone for less than an hour a day is not achievable for most “modern” (lmao) humans. I still have the need to write my friends, which are sadly all addicted to their phones too, don’t go out regularly and we chat using our phones. Lemmy is a whole other issue, but it’s getting less as well.
Just because I’m doing something doesn’t mean I’m perfect at it. You appear like a double hyprocrite for trying to point out how I’m not doing what I say and meanwhile don’t do it yourself while finding it to be true.
Sounds like an Olive Garden shill. Subliminal marketing.
No that’s something like Nedrag Evilo Ta Tae
This review of Olive Garden went viral, and the review/reviewer was mocked online—but then Anthony Bourdain came to her defense.
Kinda a cute story, and a fun read.
Great read!
No idea what “Olive Garden” is - is it used all day, or is it just a shitty programmed app that it eats up the battery?
Olive Garden is a restaurant chain. It would be like spending all day on the Arby’s or McDonald’s app with an added layer of Olive Garden being a bit obscure.
i don’t have social media but i browse lemmy a little too frequently for my liking so i started using the screen zen app. i limited my use to 2 hours per day, which can be broken into 15min intervals.
so when i try to launch sync a screen pops up and says “0/8, is this important?” and waits 5 seconds before i can say unlock, or don’t unlock immediately. the result has been fantastic, i use it like 3 times a day for less than 15min each.
the thing about the timer is it doesn’t stop if you tab out of the app so you either consume the allotted time in one sitting or it just goes away. which at first i thought was a bad thing but turns out being forced to use it in one go makes it feel more like a chore so you don’t even wanna do it.
if you have an impulse problem with social media i think this type of app could help a lot.
Btw, is there a open source app to display a warning after a certain time of <app> use?
Yes, Android has “Digital Wellbeing” but that spams me for “no play services found”, because i removed them.
Digi paws
My phone is a YouTube player apparently. Teams and Outlook for work.
Oops… (Been sitting in meetings a lot today)
LOL
If you run an android device, or any other computer that doesn’t allow the user to do basic things like close apps. You should make use of the battery optimization settings.
On android every app that you don’t want real time updates from should be set to restricted battery mode, and background data to off.
The only time you need background data is for real time updates or background play in apps like YouTube or Spotify.
This feature will almost certainly get removed in the future if history is any indication, so enjoy having decent battery life and better networking performance while it lasts.
The only time you need background data is for real time updates
And makes total sense here. I need to know the second that never ending pasta bowl starts.
It’s good for some things, messaging, banking, background play, etc. just the less you have the less apps will destroy your battery and your network connection.
Is there an iphonedefaulsim community?
It’s called The United States.
In Japan, major apps, such as for some subway systems were iPhone only. In China a guy with an ancient iPhone called my S23 shit. In Vietnam women spend like 2 months wage on new iPhones to show off.
Ironically the US is the least bad about thinking iPhone are special.
I suppose I was mistakenly conflating iMessage defaultism with iPhone defaultism.
“Blue bubble good, green bubble bad.”
? im in statesia and the last time i used an apple product was the 90s
Of mexico?
Officially it’s the united states of the Gulf of America of Mexico, but we just call it Fucked, for short.
look the US is a authoritarian shithole these days, sure, but don’t paint that i-brush shit for everyone.
haven’t touched a apple product since the Quadra 950.
Looks like the Olive garden app is a CIA bot
Maybe I should listen to fewer podcasts…
Alt text: Antenna pod using 46% of battery, notably no social media apps are present :P
46% for 42 minutes of background use is pretty wild though.
I’ve also had some high usage from antennapod, not sure if it is still happening. I’ve seen some threads online about but I’m not sure if it was fixed by now.
Upon closer inspection I realize that this is 46% of the drained battery — so 46% of 33%, which is only about 15% of my total battery life. On the whole that is worth it for me, I really like AntennaPod :)
Me too friend. My usage looks very similar. Only SM is Jeroba. Antenna pod is number 1, others are Spotify and Voice (audio books).
Any podcast recommendations?
In English, I personally listen to and can recommend 99% invisible, no such thing as a fish and stuff you should know.
99% invisible: started as a podcast explaining small design /architectural choices which you never noticed before but are everywhere and why they make such a difference (like marks on windows where it is a good place to enter a burning building with a ladder lift), but is now a bit broader than that. American made so a bit american focused as well.
No such thing as a fish: factbased talk with 4 hosts, most of them comedians, based around facts, from the team who created/creates? the questions for QI on the BBC. Always good fun to listen to.
Stuff you should know: two men explaining random stuff which you probably have heard of but don’t know the fine details about, like how vaccines work, how gerrymandering works, … American made so focus on America again, and quite heavy on adds, so keep that fast-forward-button of antennapod nearby! ( I’ve had antennapod configured to that pressing next song button skips 20 seconds, makes it very easy to skip commercials in the car or on bike.)
Those podcasts all are still active, I’ve also listened with pleasure to a couple of series which were just a number of stories:
- Uncharted with Hannah Fry: stories on how math solved a big problem, from BBC sounds so very nice audio
- I started with the missing Cryptoqueen , also from BBC sounds, but stopped listening after a while because I had less time to listen. Audio was great again, so I recommend checking out BBC sounds.
- The others were in dutch :-)
Awesome! I’ll check these out. BBC Sounds is great.
Here’s my recommendation for unique immersive audio fiction:
The Walk
A thriller in which you, the listener, are the hero. The Walk begins in Inverness station, Scotland. Through a case of mistaken identity, you, “the walker,” are given a vital package that must be couriered to Edinburgh. But as you’re about to board the train, terrorists blow it up and set off an electromagnetic pulse! None of the cars or trains are working - you’ll have to walk - but now the terrorists are on your trail because they want the device you’re carrying, and the police are after you as a suspect in the bombing. To survive, you’ll have to join up with other escapees from the city - but how many of them can you trust, and are they really who they say they are?
I listen to a lot of basic news stuff like Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes, not because those are particularly good, but just to feed my addiction to news…
One podcast I genuinely enjoy and find hilarious though, is If Books Could Kill with Michael and Peter. Sometimes I disagree with their takes, but I always find them hilarious. Website: https://www.ifbookspod.com/. 100% recommend :)
But it’s 46% of their battery usage. If they’re not using much battery this makes sense. Mine is 32% for 6 hr 11 minutes since my last full charge which is days ago.
Yep, this is it ↑↑↑ thanks!
How often does he go to Olive Garden!?!?!
Nah, how broken is the Olive Garden app?
