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8/29/2022
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My internet has an end. I am going to repeat that, my
internet *has an end.* ... It's an amazing thing, and
also it is amazing that it seems amazing, when you
think about it...
Right now I am on a fast from YouTube which started in
August and I plan to stretch through September [1].
With other things I have gotten rid of, that leaves me a
very small internet to check indeed. Here's what I check:
my email, Ran Prieur, the ERE bulletin board -- filtered by
recent, and then I am done. Today all of this was done under
two minutes, since there wasn't anything new.
At first, it's an odd feeling-- this being done with the
internet -- but only because of the internet's reputation,
and, of course, habit.
..
At other times of the day, I do allow myself Spotify, but
that has become no problem. I listen to snarky leftists or
quite thoroughly British historians while I do chores, and
then sometimes, such as clerical work, I'll play my Playlist
on random -- though even then I often just prefer
http://ubuntu.hbr1.com:19800/trance.ogg
which I have a script that I can play without leaving
command line.
All of this frees me up to get information from books, often
printed books, but also digitial copies.
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[1] I so enjoy having the full range of attention and not
having that "scroll sickness" that I think I will try to
always take two months off YouTube and then check in for a
day, then back to two months off. For my first check-in
day, I have some things about birds I want to look at.
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