u/Melodic-Neck3479

I'm not even sure that there's such a thing, but I feel like I'm not interested in life itself, it goes deeper than procrastination or fear of failure. I feel like nothing sparks my interest anymore, even when I play a game and it poses me against some kind of challenge, I just don't feel the desire to do the work to overcome that challenge. Now I must say I'm not sad, I don't hate existence, I just play along when it's necessary, but other than that every activity that people do just doesn't spark any joy (dating, hooking up, gaming, learning a skill.....), other than reddit and YouTube I don't have social media because it feels like social noise and emotional pollution.

One might ask: then what do you do all day? I just play Sims half mindedly and listen to podcasts without paying much attention, I'm not even sure what to call that.

I always considered myself a world citizen, I like to go beyond my own city and country to know about what's happening on the planet in various fields.

However, media outlets are frustrating me more and more everyday: rage- bait, ads, misleading headlines, all sorts of biases.

And now I'm telling myself: screw it! And starting to shut down the crap pipe all together, I'd rather be oblivious than being a victim of the giant misinformation machine.

Hi, are there any tweaks for a blue light filter? Ipad 2 8.1.2

So my ipad is really old and I have tried multiple appraoches:

1- there is someone in here who made a patched Youtube ipa file for version 8 but that was like 4 years ago, I tried it with no luck. It keeps saying error loading tab to retry.

2- I have tried to access invidious and piped-tube, but Safari is also is too old and can't handle modern javascript

3- I have tried to write a simple bare bone HTML/CSS page that search and play, but also no luck. The browser is blocking the script

4- I have tried installing the puffin browser because I have read that it handles JavaScript on the server side, but they stopped updating the youtube stuff years ago.

I would appreciate some help. Thanks

So my ipad is really old and I have tried multiple appraoches:

1- there is someone in here who made a patched Youtube ipa file for version 8 but that was like 4 years ago, I tried it with no luck. It keeps saying error loading tab to retry.

2- I have tried to access invidious and piped-tube, but Safari is also is too old and can't handle modern javascript

3- I have tried to write a simple bare bone HTML/CSS page that search and play, but also no luck. The browser is blocking the script

4- I have tried installing the puffin browser because I have read that it handles JavaScript on the server side, but they stopped updating the youtube stuff years ago.

I would appreciate some help. Thanks

So I have read the research and saw some serious non-clickbaity documentaries, and as far as I can understand that even smartphones has some addictive elements, nothing in the science said that it's inevitable.

I think that people blaming the phones too much because they don't want to be with their own thoughts, as if the phone is a digital pacifier for people who refuse to grow up.

My friend and I only have facebook to find freelancer gigs and reddit because there are some great art, science and tech subs that spark our interests.

I would understand the addiction argument in children and teenagers, but when a full blown adult is glued to a screen then that's on him, not the evil corporations who are mining your attention.

what do you think? Am I right?

I'm 35 YO gay man who yas never even had a proper date, there are men with whom I hooked up with don't even remember me when I run into them on the street, I haven't talked with a man for the last 5 years.

Lately, lonliness has turned into physical pain, I can feel body aches in my joints, back, nausea and tight chest. I feel fatigue and sluggishness in my brain no matter how much I sleep.

my bipolar symptoms have become more severe and border on dangerous. Sometimes I feel like I can't get out of bed in the morning

I feel like my body and mind can't fight the feeling of rejection and lonliness anymore. I try to distract myself trying to learn some tech stuff and generative AI, but all the learning process won't work: working memory, thinking, logical processing, all is shutting down.

Some of you would say that I have standards that are too high, I have tried talking to men from all shapes and sizes, they would either ghost me, or simply say that I'm not their type.

All the men I have been with have used me as a quick sexual release or a distraction from a failed romance.

I have tried excercising, but even slightly intense walking makes my heart pound.

Is there anything I can do?

At first, I thought it was just social media for it promotes provocative statements and polarized arguments since the line between debate and entertainment has become almost non-existent. However, the more I talk to people in real life I'm starting to notice it, now obviously my experience is not exactly an empirical statistical evidence, but I feel like nowadays people are moving in different paces to the extremes of every spectrum: Far right or far left, militant religious or militant atheist, morbidly obesed or obsessed with calorie counting and fitness to the extent of mental unwellness. So if that's true, is social media the cause or the result? What's causing this?

So I have just found out that paras can have more than one job at once, my para is now working in software and a barista. I love how in touch with the current state of things nowadays, they knew for sure that you can't survive IRL with only one job, so realistic LOL

So my para Sam was having his first day as a software developer, and I guess I was excited to see REAL cash starting to flow and I forgot to let him sleep, especially that he was a night barista. And because most of us have evolved to be simmers I just supposed that he's gonna pass out and then get up and return home, but the game slapped me with SAM DIED FROM LACK OF SLEEP. I guess the game is not that forgiving when you don't treat you paras well