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8/29/2022
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My internet has an end. I am going to repeat that, my
internet *has an end.* ... It's an amazing thing, and 
also it is amazing that it seems amazing, when you 
think about it... 

Right now I am on a fast from YouTube which started in 
August and I plan to stretch through September [1].  

With other things I have gotten rid of, that leaves me a 
very small internet to check indeed.  Here's what I check: 
my email, Ran Prieur, the ERE bulletin board -- filtered by 
recent, and then I am done.  Today all of this was done under 
two minutes, since there wasn't anything new. 

At first, it's an odd feeling-- this being done with the 
internet -- but only because of the internet's reputation, 
and, of course, habit.

...

At other times of the day, I do allow myself Spotify, but 
that has become no problem.  I listen to snarky leftists or 
quite thoroughly British historians while I do chores, and 
then sometimes, such as clerical work, I'll play my Playlist 
on random -- though even then I often just prefer 

http://ubuntu.hbr1.com:19800/trance.ogg

which I have a script that I can play without leaving 
command line.  

All of this frees me up to get information from books, often
printed books, but also digitial copies. 

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[1] I so enjoy having the full range of attention and not 
having that "scroll sickness" that I think I will try to 
always take two months off YouTube and then check in for a 
day, then back to two months off.  For my first check-in 
day, I have some things about birds I want to look at.

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