The tablet has turned me into a lazy person

[cobito]

Hello. I'm here to share my experience to see if anyone else has gone through something similar. A year and a half ago, I was given a tablet as a gift. In that same instant, I became a lazy person and have been gradually abandoning all my hobbies. Since then, it has been a routine of coming home from work, picking up the tablet, and starting to watch nonsense on Reddit. All day long, I'm hooked watching videos, photos, memes... Before the tablet, I would also watch that kind of stuff on the PC, but I would take a break after a while and then stop. Now I can spend hours and hours on it. The strange thing is that after about half an hour, I start to get bored because nothing interesting comes up anymore and after an hour, I completely lose interest in the topic. Then I think about doing something else, but the boredom I have makes me feel extremely lazy... and I keep going with the tablet.

Coincidentally since then, the Hardlimit cover has been almost completely abandoned. Before, I would write several things a week, but now that's unthinkable simply because the boredom that the tablet eventually produces somehow prevents me from wanting to do anything (anything).

I don't know if you guys experience something similar. I didn't realize this until recently. I thought I had lost interest in doing what I used to do, but I've realized that it's all the damn tablet's fault. If one afternoon I decide not to use it and sit in front of the PC, I feel like writing things, like this one or like the thread I posted about the 20 years of Counter Strike. And I don't know... I have a good list of things I've been wanting to do with Arduino, Raspberry Pi, the retro world, and so on. And I haven't done it because I spend the day watching damn cats on Reddit.

Anyway, now I'm going on a trip for a few days, but when I come back, I want to resume certain topics that I want to do but that my utter laziness has prevented.

[Sylver]

I knew that the possibility of browsing anywhere with the tablet while on the couch or in bed would become a problem, especially in my case where the productivity I can get from music production or business means that I have to be on the computer for several hours anyway...

So I bought an old tablet second-hand, with the idea that it would be slow enough that I couldn't use it fluently to browse or watch videos, but at the same time it would allow me to use it for the only thing I really needed it for: reading books in PDF with Acrobat in night mode and brightness at minimum (in bed, but with an LED lamp on top, so as not to go blind). No more, no less. That was my strategy, and for the moment it's luxurious. I only use it to read before going to sleep, and sometimes it goes weeks without turning on. On the other hand, the battery lasts a long time given the use it receives. I think the balance is perfect. And it was 25 euros! (it could have been less, but I wanted a 10-inch one)

Best regards!

[Yorus]

In your case, you focus on the tablet because it is very comfortable for you. For me, the mobile phone makes me lose more time, or even sometimes I don't realize what I am watching on TV because I am looking at the Telegram, Twitter groups... I have even thrown the mobile phone onto an empty armchair because I realize the addiction it produces and how, like any addiction, there are times when you feel weak and guilty.

What I do notice is that we have too many sources of information, especially brief, concise and easy-to-consume information, at hand. I spend more time looking for information about things I could do than taking advantage of it all. For example, looking for ideas on how to make a program, what to do it about, what current media there are... and never starting to do it.

It is difficult but we must try to focus more on a few things and try to procrastinate as little as possible.

[rul3s]

@Yorus said in The tablet has made me a domesticated slacker:

It's hard but you have to try to focus more on a few things and try to procrastinate as little as possible.

Great phrase, you don't know how identified I feel with it, I do many things, but I have a thousand more in mind, and sometimes you feel like you're not doing anything or not moving forward when in reality you're not stopping to do things.

[garfield]

It wasn't the tablet for me, but the 3D printing telegram groups, which are very dynamic, and work. I go from one thing to another. I think this week and the previous one I ended up leaving more than 4000 unread messages from the groups because I realized the same thing as you: I went from the PC screen at work to the mobile screen at home. Horrible.
Now I'm even getting bored of the time I have. Sometimes it's good to let go of all that and do other things