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What do you all do on your phones that isn't doom-scrolling or mindless mini games? (beehaw.org)

submitted 10 months ago by Brad@beehaw.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I find myself checking out pretty often and just making myself feel bad about the state of the world, or killing half an hour on stupid games that I could 100% live without. This is probably pretty common, and I'm wondering what other people have found as a way to do more productive things with their phones in the downtime.

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[–] Lumidaub@feddit.de 6 points 10 months ago

Productive is not what I'd call what I do but anyway: I don't follow things that make me miserable or even just "people". My feeds are full of all kinds of fun stuff, like my fandoms or science or art. So I don't ever "doom scroll", really, but read about what other people thought about that newest episode or some new thought they had about an ancient episode or general fan squealing about a ship or the newest weird findings about spinosaurus or 'look at these new photos Perseverance has taken' or 'look at this detail in this awesome painting' or 'this is how to improve this aspect in your drawings'.

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