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here's a challenge in the tech sphere: implementing nudges toward healthy phone usage. (piefed.social)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by bluemoon@piefed.social to c/technology@beehaw.org
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background: got a fairphone 5, stock android version 15 because of digital ID necessity or else i effectively lose citizenship (we gotta push back against this in the nordics but that's sociology & bureaucracy so saving it for another thread)

i got: • zero amount of TikTok YouTube etc. apps • greyscale • brightness turnt down • screen usage tracker apps

here's my screentime stats for this week altr altr

it's literally all from ThreadiVerse (PieFed with Interstellar client), FLOS dating apps (Alovoa & Duolicious) + a regional non-free dating app forum suite and lastly reading manga watching porn...

i've never been this much bedrotting since i was a teen in the 2010s and not even then.

what i need is a way to enforce recommended guidelines that do exist for phone (ab)use: • that the phone shuts off after 2 hours of screentime per day. alternatively blank screen or just annoyance. • second-long breaks/timeouts every few minutes.

that is literally all. on a linux OS like PostMarketOS, SailFishOS, UbuntuTouch this is guaranteed doable, right? i can make the OS switch and appreciate insight into an operator implementing this in comments so that all can learn. it's surely a meagre >=99 LoC shellscript source code to implement.

but on android? idk if that's allowed or even possible to implement on stock android.

what are your thoughts? abhorring situation, all replies welcome. let's keep it a constructive thread since this is a public health issue i wanna bring up in the open

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[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In the settings, isn't there a "digital wellbeing and parental controls" area? I'm pretty sure that's a stock Android thing.

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[–] bluemoon@piefed.social 1 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

funny thing is i checked it yesterday put every app on block

today it's 2-clicks with no wait time to un-block apps

[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 17 hours ago

The PieFed web UI has a daily limit you can set, btw. Doesn't work with apps but you can uninstall all the apps and use PieFed as a pwa which is very app-y.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I guess if it were effective then Google wouldn't provide it.

There is an app called App Block which is a bit more hard to get around.

Perhaps the key is finding things to do that are better. Volunteer work, study, get a dog, etc