I’m personally like 70% addicted. If the internet shuts down, I’m gonna have withdrawl symptoms.

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    I can go days without. But I spend maybe 2-4 hours a day. Sadly I work remote, so I get bored. But during holidays and staycations, I hardly pick up my phone, let alone a laptop. 30. 30 is my addiction number.

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      1 month ago

      Hello stranger. I would just like to thank you for using the phrase “let alone” correctly. As far as I can remember, this is my first such sighting on Lemmy. Thank you.

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    My addiction is basically whenever I have nothing else to do, like working on vehicles or moving furniture, or sleeping, I browse the internet.

    So basically about 42%

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    20, I would love the world without internet back.

    The older I get the more it’s obvious we were better off without.

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    Probably 90%. Whenever my internet or power goes out, I have literally nothing to do at home. Maybe I should get a board game.

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    I would say I’m 75% addicted. Like without it, if it shuts off for prolonged periods, what am I down to? I’m down to just books and whatever I acquired to make available offline like downloaded games and I’ve got quite a media collection going to delve into.

    What I’ll miss the most of it is being in contact with those I’ve established a connection with such as online friends. The longer I go without speaking to them, the more things will feel hollow.

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    About 85-90% I can handle a few days away from the internet if I have some podcasts saved, as well as some random wikipedia articles.

    Currently I have about 100 podcast episodes and plenty of different wiki articles saved on my phone.

    I also have several videos saved.

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    Probably about 80% addicted. In saying that though, if there is no internet for whatever reason I’m fine. Everything is self hosted on my local network, eg Jellyfin, Mealie, Navidrome. Plus a bunch of games and an Xbox. I don’t find it hard to keep myself occupied without internet with other things too like cooking, gardening, exercise and organising.

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      I’d say media like Jellyfin would count towards using the internet. It’s basically Netflix but local.
      My distinction would be at having to use physical media like CDs etc. and needing to visit the shops or library to get more

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        That’s fair. It would be a mild inconvenience but I would just connect my server to the HDMI on the tv. Maybe load up some USBs with music as well.

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    Kindof a hard question to answer. I work remotely in software. If I couldn’t use the Internet, I’d have to change fields and start working in person. But is working remotely and writing code for my day job an expression of “addiction”? How about looking up documentation while I’m writing code on my own time? Definitely something I use the Internet for, but I wouldn’t think it’s an “addiction” thing. What about updating the software on my computer? Is finding recipes online “addiction”?

    Social media is “addictive”. For sure.

    So, I guess if you’re counting everything I use the internet for as “addiction” and asking how well I’d fare (with 100 being extremely poorly), I’d probably have to put it pretty high. Maybe 85 or more?

    If you only disallowed uses of the Internet that qualify as “addictive” such as doomscrolling or four-hour-long YouTube in-depth deep dives on invisible walls in Super Mario 64, then I don’t think I’d be really all that bad off. I might put myself at 20.

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    Must be quite high for me too since every time our internet doesn’t work I realise how little things you can do on your phone and PC that don’t rely on the internet. Even for programming you constantly need to look up things.

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      I honestly can’t grasp how someone would program without being able to search the reading medium with CTRL + F.
      The manual way of finding stuff in a book is annoying and laborious as hell.

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    It’s more of a habit than an addiction.

    If I have pretty much literally anything else going on, I don’t tend to think about or miss the internet.

    But if I don’t have anything else going on, I’ll probably reach for my phone or end up on a computer pretty quickly without even realizing it

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    I’d say I’m probably around 20-30%. If the internet were to disappear tomorrow, the only thing it’d affect is my work which I’m not really concerned about. The only thing I’d probably miss is watching random stuff on YouTube.

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    You can easily measure your addiction by how many tabs you have open right now.

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      10 of my open tabs are the same thing because I forgot I searched it already (I Googled “Amazon Teamsters strikes” in ten separate tabs “apparently”)

      The others are daily games, weather, and then ChatGPT which I use for fun

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        In Firefox, you can just bookmark the tabs you always open daily in a single folder on your Bookmarks Toolbar. When you click on that folder you can see at the bottom it allows you to “Open All in Tabs”. Very handy and allows you to close tabs.

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        Do your tabs reopen when you start your browser up? Because that’s a sign of addiction. Or do you start fresh with zero tabs.