[AStonesThrow]

Look, why should it be the individual consumer or their parents who regulate screen time when it’s not our fault?

Computers have become an unprecedented scourge and curse to our attention, our moods and our very souls, but radio, telephone, and TV led up to this.

It is time that the architects of consumer communications technology took responsibility for the utter grind and drain they’re causing us in every waking hour--literally--because these days, my smartphone knows exactly when I begin to stir in the morning and dumps a fresh deluge of pings before I can make it to the bathroom...

[anthk]

Radio and TV had discrete programmes. Either you were there, or forget any watching in years except a rerun, if there was any. Yes, they were recordings in vynil, cassetes and whatnot, but these were not cheap.

Nowadays, you can, you know, just download narrated podcasts, ebooks from Gutenberg, free PD audiobooks...

Listen to some stories in silence, on your bed, at night. Let your brain imagine the story. You don't even need an internet connection at all. Download them at your library, listen them at home.

On news, RSS feeds. Feeder on Android (and any good client under Linux too) has access to full content, you don't need to be online to read the news.

The Conversation and Science Alert have the whole news in their feed. Use Feeder, and while you add a feed, don't forget to check the 'get the whole content' option or similar.

Now you will be able to read news offline. No alerts, no dopamine, no useless bullshit, no bait 'news', no nothing.

The Conversation has curated articles from major sections (Science, Health, Culture, Environment, Economy, Politics). Everything else it's just boring propaganda -from all sides- to polarize and scare you like hell so you are rendered a zombie customer.

Science Alert it's that, Scientific News, popular science. If The Conversation Science feed feels bland to you, here your have.