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  • What I do (assuming I am at home all day) is a cycle of this:

    • before going to bed, put a fresh full glass of water beside my bed
    • after waking up, first thing I do is drink from it
    • most likely I will now need to pee, so do that, and after washing hands, immediately refill my glass
    • drink from that glass of water throughout the day when I am even slightly thirsty
    • usually when I have finished a glass of water, I need to pee again; if that happens, again refill my glass after doing so
    • if I’ve finished a glass of water but do not need to pee, I usually refill it with another drink (e.g. fruit juice) instead
    • keep that cycle of refilling after using the toilet going

    If I’m spending my day at the office, the first thing I do after arriving is grab a glass of water, but otherwise, same cycle.





  • No such thing as “smartphone addiction” anyway. Not liking boredom is a fairly normal human instinct and the fact that we can now at almost all times use smartphones to get rid of boredom is a good thing. Quick reminder that “Internet addiction” started out as a satirical concept. Addiction is normally about substance use, maybe gambling; calling all hobbies or habits “addictions” completely devalues the concept.

    Digital technology can be used for so many different things in so many different ways that it’s completely stupid to demonize it in general. I acknowledge that watching a steady stream of short videos (on TikTok or similar) for hours isn’t a very productive way to spend one’s time, but there are so many other things that can be done on screens!









  • since interface has been designed to be as unfriendly as possible

    No, it hasn’t.

    It (well, vi, which vim is a clone of) has been designed to be a possible interface on a keyboard that doesn’t have arrow keys or other modifier keys than shift. There aren’t that many ways to program a visual text editor when those are your constraints.

    That it’s more productive once you know it is a side-effect.