PC Updatery

[jon_chaisson]

First of all (and I mentioned this elsewhere), the keyboard and mouse are NOT wireless, so I'm trying to remember when I last had a pair with the actual USB wires plugged into the back and I'm thinking maybe in the mid to late 00s? Mind you, I can easily replace these with the perfectly fine wireless duo if I so choose, but as I had these plugged in for the initial computer setup, I'm just going to stick with them for the time being. At the moment I'm scanning my mp3s into the MediaMonkey library and that's taken a good hour or so (yes, I really DO have that many).

Which made me think: maybe now is a good a time as any to scale back my social media intake while I'm at it. By this I mainly mean Twitter and FB, but especially my habit if being so passive/reactive about it. How about *not* looking at what's trending? Or reading the comments? Or how about cleaning out the follow list and maybe even muting certain people's RTs? And how about not passively fucking around on YouTube so damn much? Among other things that actually *do* waste my time. I don't want to do it anymore anyway, yet why do I keep doing it?

It's a new PC, so why not some new personal guidelines?

Sounds good to me.

Comments

[anagramofbrat]

I just need to somehow banish short upright videos from my life. It is way too easy to fall into eternalscroll in Reels in both Facebook and insta, and while I only go to tiktok when someone sends me a link, once i'm there it's very easy to fall into that as well so I hear ya.

[jon_chaisson]

You ever done something by habit so frequently that you reach the 'why the hell am I doing this' level? That's where I'm at. It's taking some will power but I'm slowly getting better at it!