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Mental fatigue and new-found nostalgia

Over the past week I've been trying to focus more on myself and avoid what I have come to term as "information overload" and I've been trying to cut down on generally just bad over-stimulating internet and social media habits I've had for the past few years, generally just experimenting with being more mindful with my own mind, time and patience.

Typically I'd be super into reading a shit ton of news about technology and the animation industry and other things in this fancy macOS/iOS app called Reeder that puts all your RSS feeds into a really nice flashy modern feed that sort of feels like twitter and it's an amazing app honestly, probably one of my favourites but I think that ultimately binging the news cycle like that is ultimately just doing my mind no good, so I quit. I deleted the app from my phone and just hid it away somewhere on my Mac out of reach.

I was telling my partner about this and she seemed to get what I meant actually, she said she had a similar issue to a degree. She actually recommended me this Mac app called 1Focus and it's been fantastic for me, if a bit over the top; it more or less lets you just block any app or website on your Mac in any browser on a set timer but I've decided to just have those sites blocked 24/7 but it does it in a way where it kind of throws away the key and you cant really turn it off unless you literally forcibly close the app in macOS's activity monitor. It works great, but TOO great if you know what I mean, but I think ultimately thats a good thing. I WISH IT WAS ON IOS TOO.

Since trying this out I've actually been rediscovering some of my nerdier and information dense hobbies I used to love a lot when I was younger, mostly the retro computing and restoring/collecting side of YouTube and generally just watching less spam/attention grabbing content as a result and honestly staying out of the news cycle has made things refreshing and exciting for once.

And here I am now actually writing about what I'm doing for once. I think sometimes I just need a mental vacation from my usual for those that know me well, but to those who don't - Hello! Some of my favourite content from the past week:

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Hello there!

Figured I repurpose this blog into more of something of an empty void to scream more longform ramblings into until I find something a lil better.

It has been surprisingly difficult to find a service that provides a simple, hosted blog with options for a custom domain but after browsing around in circles I've ultimately just ended back up at Tumblr. I was hoping to maybe use a "federated" service so it could plug into mastodon, threads etc but unless I'm willing to shell out £70 a year thats just not happening, lol. Thanks wordpress!

Anyway I don't expect to really get much from this other than a place to barf paragraphs of text, which hey isn't that what blogs are for?

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