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Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot

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370 points remuskaos | 1 comments | 22 Jun 25 20:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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p1necone ◴[22 Jun 25 21:50 UTC] No.44350595[source]▶
I don't know if this'll help anyone else or if it's just specific to me but I'll throw it out there anyway.

Drop the idea that short form content like youtube shorts or tik toks or whatever is somehow ignoble and worthy of scorn. Recognize it's just a fun way to kill some time.

Internalized that? Cool.

Now find a comfy place to sit or lie down and binge that shit. For hours. Do it for as long as it brings you joy. Had your fill? Cool.

Keep doing this, whenever you've got some free time and there isn't something else you want to do more binge that short form "brainrot" content. Do not let the thought that you're somehow "wasting" your time enter your mind. You're having fun, and that's all that matters.

If you're anything like me once you've internalized the idea that it's just dumb short videos for fun and you've watched hours of them, you'll just get bored of it. Maybe you'll spend 20 minutes scrolling occasionally but your brain aint gonna rot.

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devttyeu[dead post] ◴[22 Jun 25 22:05 UTC] No.44350694[source]▶
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femiagbabiaka ◴[22 Jun 25 22:10 UTC] No.44350726[source]▶
Nit: Genocide isn't about numbers. And watching reels isn't dying, at least not in any other sense than an existential one.
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devttyeu ◴[22 Jun 25 22:29 UTC] No.44350834[source]▶
Maybe that's about the wasted human potential that's depressing. Other than that, this analogy only makes sense when framed in terms of some philosophy - i.e. if you are "long-term utilitarian" I don't think it's correct to look at massive consumption of brainrot favorably, even though individual experiences are technically kinda pleasurable.
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1. femiagbabiaka ◴[22 Jun 25 23:12 UTC] No.44351069[source]▶
I think the classic midwit response would be to say that in order to determine if this is negative from a longtermism perspective, we'd first have to prove that:

1. this level of preoccupation is a new and historically significant phenomenon

2. the time not spent on scrolling would be spent on something else more productive

Both seem plausible, but they also seem like a couple of those tricky conclusions that seem naturally right but would fall apart with some research. For example, I think it would be better if we all spent time at cafes instead, but it's hard to say that that would result in better societal outcomes.