Only the part with youtube. Don't know if they are pulling some tricks on uBlock users, but about 10 tabs of youtube can get nasty, even with a somewhat recent workstation.

Someone from an advanced spacefaring civilization

You know those stories about people who insist they remember their past life? But there's no way to confirm it? I'd like my memories passed down like that.

Approximations for yesterday since neither have a proper screen time counter

• Phone: ~1.5 hours
• Computer: ~7 hours

Kinda scary to see how many hours of the day I was seated in front of a screen. Should I feel less guilty that over 4 hours of that was spent writing documentation?

What I don't feel guilty about is screen time accrued while waiting in line. That makes me feel productive, or at least like offloading my scrolling to otherwise idle time.

When a colleague or new friend asks me to exchange contacts, I offer them the option to be part of my "main phone club" by getting Signal, Wire, or Element/Matrix.

I have a separate phone to handle SMS and Whatsapp. That covers 99% of cases, if they want something esoteric like Instagram/Snapchat/iMessage, then that's too bad. I'll turn off Airplane mode and check this secondary phone when I'm seated and comfortable like during my lunch break or when I get home. If, say, Johnny is running an event and needs me to text back whenever from 10 to 12, then I'll generally leave my phone on for that time period. If there's something sensitive but not particularly urgent, I'll save it for the next time we meet in person.

If someone wants to message me at any random time of the day without prior notice and have a quick response back, they'll have to join my main phone club.

I use debian btw

Debian Stable. Predictable, low-maintenance, and well-supported. From time to time, I think about switching over to Alpine or even BSD, but the software selection and abundance of Q&A posts for Debian and its derivatives keeps me coming back. Having been a holdout on older Windows versions in the past, I'm quite used to waiting for new features and still amazed at how much easier life is with a proper package manager.

Graphing and familiar commands and syntax for those who grew up using TI calculators

Nothing worked for me until I designed my own planner. I like to take things one week at a time so every Friday afternoon, I print out enough sheets for the next week on semi-A4 paper, folded and stapled to a semi-A5 booklet.

One full page for each day with:

• Compact visual schedule of the day with a time grid (hours on the y-axis, 10s of minutes on the x-axis) and recurring events pre-printed
• "Today" box to write down reminders and tasks that don't go on a time grid
• Section to jot down miscellaneous thoughts and ideas
• Right half of the page entirely for a journal entry

Front cover has the weekly overview and back cover has upcoming and assorted tasks.

No monthly calendar, any entry that needs to persist for longer than a week or so goes in a separate hardcover A5 journal that is usually in my bag.

This stuff makes me grateful that my bank and your bank still maintain a fully-featured website. I would be quite upset if I were stuck with such an app and no website.

same here but with hentai on searx.be

No shame in that. My phone's at 305 tabs. I'll look random things up throughout the day and sometimes I'll find a longer article that I'd like to read later. But I hate reading on my phone. So it just hangs out until my next tab purge, which is perhaps a yearly event.

More or less replicated the desktop layout I had used throughout childhood, sans desktop icons

• Debian 12 stable
• XFCE + Chicago95
• Chicago95 black cursors
• Helvetica bitmap font
• Not shown: wdm login and slock screen locker
• Running on an X230T with classic keyboard mod to complete the look