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by nicbou
1419 days ago
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I use ad blocker rules to cut out a lot of that noise. I found the internet impossible to use without it. I have stopped using apps because they bypass those rules. The worst ones are suggested content feeds. They're everywhere, including in your operating system. |
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This unexpected change to the windows taskbar broke my concentration on some task I was doing the other day, and right away I stopped what I was doing to go chase down how to disable the thing so I wouldn't lose more moments of concentration in the future. https://superuser.com/questions/1725905/get-rid-of-decorativ...
Such a crazy idea of our own OS's being the source of interruptions. Even iOS is getting in on this with the Maps app I noticed the other week, I'd even count iTunes displaying a bunch of random album titles that are on the ugly end of the spectrum in my opinion. At least iTunes uses the same batch of images so one can train to ignore it. It's kind of interesting to conceptualize the OS as like this pesky idle assistant just hungry for attention and with nothing to do who likewise feels its owner is just as idle as them with free time and free attention to spare. "My owner isn't doing anything special or fun, let me bug him with this visual distraction". It's even funny at a meta level to even observe myself getting riled up over this growing assault.
It's interesting you say impossible to use without it, I wonder if a certain subpopulation of folks are more prone to these traps. Basically those with a high degree of attention to detail, those with sharp powers of observation, and those juggling a ton of things in their lives where spare mental capacity is on the short end of the spectrum.