• Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.worldOP
      5·
      2 months ago

      I dunno if might help - but I had a problem with reddit (before switching to Lemmy). I ended up putting an app timer on it for an hour every weekday and 2 on weekends. Honestly, it helped a lot for me.

      • mrmaplebar@fedia.io
        2·
        2 months ago

        Yeah, I used the LeechBlock browser addon for that. Worked ok, though I was often tempted to override it. 😅

    • mrmaplebar@fedia.io
      2·
      2 months ago

      Do what I did and get perma-banned from Reddit. Then you’ll just be addicted to Lemmy. 😤

    • whaleross@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      I use an app called Lock Me Out to ensure that I don’t get into bad habits of scrolling too long.

      I recommend getting into some other hobbies that require your attention.

    • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      God, me too.

      I use a self hosted front end for reddit so at least im not logging in there but sweet jesus.

      • 「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」(he/him)@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        2 months ago

        Yes…

        Unfortunately I’ve been just been binge watching a bunch of random stuff and been procrastinating on it…

        Don’t worry… I’ll get that done some day…

        5 decades later…

        “Eh, I’ll work on it tomorrow…”

        (My most recent binge-watch is Frieren… lots of flashbacks… just like I go through a lot of “flashbacks” everyday lol… it’s so poetic, so rhymey)

  • AskewLord@piefed.socialEnglish
    101·
    2 months ago

    Reading academic books that freak people out when they come over to my place and get me labeled as a pretentious douche.

      • yaroto98@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 months ago

        On Saturdays for lunch we let the kids pick. Me and my wife work from home, on Tuesdays she gets to pick where we go for our lunch date and Thursdays I get to pick.

        The wife likes to pick sushi, panera, taco bell, and a good local burger joint.

        I like to pick Qdoba, Firehouse, Burger King, local Indian place, chick-fil-a, and random new places around town.

    • AskewLord@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      I knew people who eat out 3 times a day.

      They always complained about how broke they were and how expensive life is…

      • yaroto98@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        True. One thing that helps is I hate delivery apps. I only use them when work gives out gift cards. The food is always cold and garbage when I finally get it. And not using those helps save money a lot too.

    • spectrums_coherence@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      What about when you hang out outside on a weekend, then that is easily two meals outside.

      Do you not hang out outside that long or do you go home for lunch and go back out?

      • yaroto98@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        Nah, we tend to either stay home or when we go out to do things on the weekends they’re quick errands and we’re right back home.

  • Nefara@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 months ago

    Hobbies, I can’t get enough of them, gotta collect 'em all. Every couple months it’s a new fixation.

  • Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.worldOP
    6·
    2 months ago

    Soda for me.
    I love it.
    I hate it.

    I just wish so much that there were half sugar sodas out there. All the synthetic sugars of the diet or 0 calorie ones taste like garbage.

    I’ve been cutting the ones I drink by pouring a can of eltzer water in with the regular can of soda, but I think even that tastes a little strange compared to just watering things down.

    • AskewLord@piefed.socialEnglish
      51·
      2 months ago

      Make your own. It’s pretty easy. It’s just water and flavorings and sugar and you boil it down slowly.

      Syrup in the fridge made this way will store for weeks and you can customize how strong/weak you want your soda to taste.

    • mrmaplebar@fedia.io
      2·
      2 months ago

      Same… I drink an embarrassing amount of diet soda. I’m like a chain-drinker, to be honest, and I’m almost never without one. When one runs out I get another.

      I like to add a splash of regular when I use a fountain soda machine, which is the best way to drink soda anyway, imo.

      • Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.worldOP
        1·
        2 months ago

        Agreed with the second part 100%. On the rare occasion I get fast food or something, getting the good stuff straight from the great soda teat is probably the best part.

    • otacon239@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      Liquid Death has some great low-sugar sodas. I’ve been a strong fan of their Doctor Death. Their tea is also super low in sugar.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        2 months ago

        Only tried Liquid Death once, and it was Arnold Palmer I believe. Just tasted like watered down iced tea…

        I think the flavor was called “dead billionaire” though which gave me a chuckle.

    • Nefara@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      There are some lower sugar sodas, or hybrid sodas that use fruit juice along with Stevia or monkfruit in order to cut the weird taste. Olipop is my favorite, and Spindrift has some good flavors.

  • DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    2 months ago

    Blue cheese. Specifically double cream blue cheese spread on triscuits.

    I used to think blue cheese tasted like play-doh…

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
    6·
    2 months ago

    My computer, in full working order, with Internet access.

    If any of that goes wrong, I’m in a very bad place.

  • felsiq@piefed.zipEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    Music, I NEED it on nearly all the time or I’ll drive myself insane repeating parts of songs in my head. Only turn it off to sleep

      • felsiq@piefed.zipEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        I have a lot of artists I like so there’s usually new music even without checking out new playlists, although that works great too. Honestly the biggest part is probably just that if I really love a song I don’t mind hearing it super often, so I’m usually perfectly happy just hitting shuffle on my library and vibing with whatever’s on

        • Owl@mander.xyz
          21·
          2 months ago

          I have a lot of artists I like

          Damn that must be great. I have like 1-2 songs I like from ~10 artists