• How I Scored Hundreds of Hours of Android Screen Time

    From Stefan Ram@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 6 20:02:06 2025
    Yeah, I know, it's hella wild, but I can now clock more than 300
    hours on Android! And here's the lowdown on how it all went down . . .

    I was catching some pretty gnarly Z's. I'd wake up in the
    middle of the night and couldn't drift back off. So I started
    to kill time on those nights by reading PDFs, cramming vocab,
    or doing other chill stuff on my Android device.

    I was already hitting the books for an hour in the evening and
    again in the morning. So I was racking up two hours daily on
    my Android, plus another hour (on average) at night. That's
    three hours of screen time, dude!

    Sure, I was soaking up some knowledge, but those three hours
    were MIA during the day.

    This bogus nighttime waking! Why couldn't I just sleep like a log?

    Finally, I had this eureka moment about how to neutralize the
    time spent during these nocturnal adventures! If I read for an
    hour at night, I'd subtract that time from my evening or morning
    reading sesh! Like, if I read for 30 minutes at night, I'd only
    read for 30 instead of 60 minutes the next morning. That way,
    the time spent burning the midnight oil would be "neutralized."

    In my internal bookkeeping, I'd credit myself with two hours of
    reading time per day. The evening, night, and morning reading times
    would be subtracted from that. In other words: I'd cut down on
    morning and evening reading to offset the nighttime reading, so the
    nocturnal page-turning wouldn't jack up the total reading time.

    So now, I'm getting credited with two hours of device usage time
    every day. These days, though, I'm reading less in the evening,
    at night, and in the morning than I used to. I'm getting credited
    with two hours of device use daily (for reading, vocab drilling,
    etc.), but I'm only using about an hour or 90 minutes a day now.

    That's how I ended up with a surplus of more than 300 hours of
    device use in the bank!

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