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What life hack is so simple yet so effective, you're shocked more people don't know about it? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] red_pigeon@lemm.ee 178 points 4 months ago (2 children)

To stop infinite scroll on social media, quickly scroll 2-3 screen lengths down without looking at the posts. Now read the posts scrolling up. Eventually you'll reach where you started and most probably the laziness to go all the way back will prompt you to exit the app.

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 65 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That's amazing!

Now give me a tip to prevent myself from opening the same app immediately after hahaha

[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 14 points 4 months ago

I changed the icon location, and my muscle memory still was trying to open them from the previous location, basically in a complete auto-pilot mode. That led me to a realization of how fucked up the situation was, and eventually helped me uninstall/reduce screen time of those apps.

[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Instead of closing an app, shutdown the phone. Now it's a pain to reopen the app.

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

With how fast phones start up nowadays, that's hardly a pain

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 months ago

New tip: Install bloatware to make it slower

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 months ago

For some reason I always have a habit of scroll to the bottom of any list and reading up. Like I wanna confirm how long the list is before working my way up