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I use workrave on my computer to remind me of regular breaks. But then, I switch to my phone during those breaks. 🤦♂️
One thing I have done is increase the font sizes on the phone and browser (my most used app), so I usually have it in a distance. Having big fonts looked weird at first, but then I got used to it. Hopefully it helps a little.
all of them
Yes
Like... 24 a day? Not always USING it, but generally everywhere I go has a TV or a screen somewhere in front of where I am sitting or standing. At home, at work, at a random appointment or a car mechanic lobby, etc.
I'm only using them, like... 22-23 hours a day 🤷♂️
If you want to continue to imitate humans, please note that we also need to sleep a few hours per day.
Does it not count as in use if I fall asleep watching youtube?
Hm, right, OP didn't say you need to have your eyes exposed to the screen's light.
Are screens bad or are the primary ideas about screen time based on when screens solely offered content to consume without interaction?
"Screen are bad and you'll become blind!"
-said mom who now scrolls WeChat all the time
Looking a mere 30cm in front of you for extended periods of time isn't great either, along with a lack of excercise. Not unique to computers, but there are multiple reasons which combined can make prolonged PC or phone usage unhealthy.
-- Someone who spends a lot of time in front of a computer.
My solution is that my screen is 20 feet away and battery powered, and I keep the batteries on a separate floor, so every 2 hours, I have to get up and do the stairs at the very minimum. But I also tend to walk around or do my life while using the screen, since it also floats around and follows me wherever I go. And when not using a floating screen, I just visit other random worlds that tend to involve alot of exercise, like people trying to murder me but I have swords, or magic, or guns... or maybe a world where the objective is dancing... but usually the murder worlds.
Been doing VR for 10 years now, only the most recent headset (Quest 3) has been a full-day headset, before that, most headsets were 6-10 hours at most even fully modded. Looking forward to future headsets too, now that they don't have to come from meta anymore to be good. It's crazy how much firing most of their workforce and replacing them with AI has tanked their software and firmware dev. They used to have it all(enough that it was worth buying their stuff despite meaning you have to buy 'their' stuff), but then they threw away what they had, first the software and firmware, and then at a critical point of time they decided to throw away hardware too.
Looking forward mostly to Steam Frame at the moment. And of course with my lifestyle, the number 1 expansion port upgrade I'll be getting is high-res color passthrough. Glad I get to pick it rather than having to use whatever is good enough/cheap enough for everyone. I would easily sink 200$ into that feature alone if someone makes one worth it. Rather than whatever 20 dollar 'pretty good' option would have made sense to include en masse by default.
That's very fair. Not necessarily the screen itself or the mental effects, but the associated activities. I commented a bit blindly because I'm locked into a screentime lifestyle. Can't do my job without 8 hours at a screen and the cheapest hobbies tend to be on another screen. I forget what I've had to incorporate into my habits to fight that sedentarianism. I'm still not great at avoiding it.
Personally, I think both are pretty bad, but yeah, spending extended periods of time in front of a computer screen isn't very healthy. They've already stated in another comment about the physical aspects of it with being 30 centimeters from the screen.
But there's also the social development aspect of it. At the end of the day, humans are social creatures, regardless if you are an introvert or extrovert. You still need some amount of socialization. Many people that are habitually on computers have converted that socialization over to some digital platform like Discord(guilty as charged), Or have moved to a text based socialization. While this may meet our needs as human beings for socialization, It disconnects us from our emotions, and hinders our ability to have direct conversation.
The consequences of tone doesn't matter much online, which makes us more apt to respond or be blunt for discussion. The lack of video or a face also weakens the ability to be able to analyze body language, to be able to properly analyze the intent of the other parties. These attributes are crucial for communication.
Things such as going in for job interview are now digitalozed (or in some fields discarded all together). Instances such as calling someone to verify an appointment or to ask questions are being replaced with text-based communications or no communication needed portals. We are currently seeing this among the millennials and Gen Z's, but even the older Gen A's are starting to show signs of a weaker ability to have face-to-face communication and be able to interpret body language. I've never liked talking on the phone in the first place, but my sister, who's younger than me, avoids it like the plague. It's to the point where if the thing that she's doing doesn't have an online portal or an ability to text, she isn't going to do it. Because she's not comfortable with having phone calls outside of her social circle, and she isn't comfortable going and meeting someone to ask in person. When I've talked to her about it, she's stated that she's not different than most of her friend group, and that that's just how it is now.
It's scary.
like at least 90% of my free-time waking hours
It's like drug addiction for me.
Don't your eyes or back get tired ? I cant sit that long
There's other things then that? What? How do I upgrade my screen for that?
Kidding aside, I watch screens like mostly all day long as I'm disabled and living in Amerikkka. It's the only real entertainment I can do. Zero income and cars are mandatory in Amerikkka as well as lots of disposable income.
If I could I would but society forces me into watching a screen all the time.
I spend more then 13 between work, gaming, the telly, and my phone.
A lot; 8-10 hours closer to 10 if counting the kindle as "a screen" closer to 8 if not.
Less than most, cause a lot of my gaming happens at a table upstairs by myself. I have fun though, and that’s what counts.
This looks dope. I should really play with myself more.
Yeah, I can easily lose three hours in one go in front of Arydia.
All of them?
As I'm currently reading Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman, I literally can't help myself but post some excerpt. It's only 105 pages btw.
One professor uses the book in conjunction with an experiment she calls an “e-media fast.” For twenty-four hours, each
student must refrain from electronic media. When she announces the assignment, she told me, 90 percent of the students
shrug, thinking it’s no big deal. But when they realize all the things they must give up for a whole day—cell phone, computer,
Internet, TV, car radio, etc.—“they start to moan and groan.” She tells them they can still read books. She acknowledges it will
be a tough day, though for roughly eight of the twenty-four hours they’ll be asleep. She says if they break the fast—if they
answer the phone, say, or simply have to check e-mail—they must begin from scratch.
“The papers I get back are amazing,” says the professor. “They have titles like ‘The Worst Day of My Life’ or ‘The Best
Experience I Ever Had,’ always extreme. ‘I thought I was going to die,’ they’ll write. ‘I went to turn on the TV but if I did I
realized, my God, I’d have to start all over again.’ Each student has his or her own weakness—for some it’s TV, some the cell
phone, some the Internet or their PDA. But no matter how much they hate abstaining, or how hard it is to hear the phone ring
and not answer it, they take time to do things they haven’t done in years. They actually walk down the street to visit their
friend. They have extended conversations. One wrote, ‘I thought to do things I hadn’t thought to do ever.’ The experience
changes them. Some are so affected that they determine to fast on their own, one day a month. In that course I take them
through the classics—from Plato and Aristotle through today—and years later, when former students write or call to say hello,the thing they remember is the media fast.”
Everything at work is either reading or writing and that all takes place on a screen but not always I guess
Plus I watch stuff and play video games so on a weekday its probably close to majority screen time from wake to sleep
Screens are now fundamental to modernity as paper and ink was
More than I probably should and a lot less than I will in April. After that it's going to be even more time in front of a screen editing 30 plus hours of underwater video.
I hope that means it's as fun as it sounds. Because it sounds like you're having to go on a scuba trip and that sounds amazing.
Editing 30 plus hours of it, not so much. But getting that information sounds really super fun.
Yeah. It's my favorite place. Love being under water. It's going to be my biggest trip to date with at least 15 days of diving and 3 weeks of total time in Cozumel.
I wandered into a shop a few months after my wife passed away and was certified a couple weeks later. I went on my first ocean dive a few months after that in Cozumel and then George Town Cayman Islands. A couple months after that I completed an Advanced Open Water Certification in Jamaica where my wife was from. My Rescue Certification was completed about a year after I got started and I want to become an instructor focusing on training teens and young adults who have survived childhood abuse.
My goal is to use my Youtube channel as a funding source so I can provide the training and basic gear for free after I cover my training to become an instructor and acquire everything I need. I'm also planning to donate my time to organizations that help other people who would also benefit from learning to dive.
Editing the video is mind numbing and monotonous but I have yet to find someone else who wants to do it. It's a lot more fun getting the footage but it had to be done to make things happen.
You have a really noble goal. I wish you the best of luck with your endeavors, you're making the world a better place!
Thank you. I know exactly the toll that is paid by the survivors and how at peace I feel when diving so I figure sharing it with others can't be a bad thing. I just hope things pick up steam soon.
6h for work, probably 4 on social media/chat apps, and then the remaining 6 are wildcards of cooking, exercise, or hobbies. Most of my hobbies include some screen time (all of them if we include things like turning on podcasts to listen to while knitting)
Probably averages out to 12h/day, more if we count multiple screens running at the same time in my line of sight (checking phone while playing games, which I'm doing now)
Not as much as I'd like, honestly.
I have an outdoor job in the forest and spend maybe 30 min totals over the course at the day checking the phone for messages and writing a quick reply or two.
At home i spend time with the kids these days. Since they are too young for screentime i only look at my phone from time to time, lets say for an hour totals between me coming home and them going to bed.
After that? Screentime until i collapse of exhaustion, either gaming or watching Youtube. Most days something around 5 hours, some days more, some days less.
So around 6 1/2 hour a day. It's only that much because i sleep three to four hours and use the time i should be in bed to get in some me-time. Hardly a model that i will be able to keep going in the long term, but for now it works.
8 hours in front of a work screen. Then around 6 hours combined for the TV or a phone. That's usually having something on the TV as a background while cooking and eating a meal. Then watching a basketball game, a movie, or a couple of episodes of a show where I'm actually sitting down in front of the TV.
all of them....
Way more than what should be concidered healthy. Mostly due to necessity(hobby and work), but I am trying to cut down the amount of time that I'm on Lemmy or social media networks.
Even hobbies that I have go in front of the computer. Like D&D, I do via Roll20. Development, I do obviously on my system. The media that I consume is mostly YouTube or Twitch.
I would estimate that I'm probably on the computer roughly 13-15 hours a day between coding, gaming, social media and surfing the web.
edit: If I didn't even think about my phone, if I included the phone, I probably am on it. From the time I wake up to the time I sleep. (on and off with the phone though)
Technically, like 16 hours, because at my work there are screens in every position of the building used as a virtual ticketing system. But if we're not including that, then i spend about 6 - 7 hours
Hmm. It might not be 13, because I do have unplugged time every day as well. But a lot.
More than enough that I prefer not to look until spring, mainly phone and IPad for work and then home entertainment. It was 12-13 hours when I was an office worker. Probably closer to 9 now but prefer much less