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>I don’t have any subscriptions except for rent, transportation, a cloud VM, and a domain for my blog, and that has made an incredible difference. Amazon Prime
by Thorrez 2y ago
>I don’t have any subscriptions except for rent, transportation, a cloud VM, and a domain for my blog, and that has made an incredible difference.
Amazon Prime is a tricky one: bundle shopping deals with streaming video. Youtube is also tricky: it's free.
But despite having Amazon Prime and Youtube, I almost never watch movies, TV, play games, or doomscroll? How? I had a baby. No more time for any for any of that. Once he's old enough to want to watch movies or play games, then maybe I'll watch/play some with him, but he's too young currently.
- rednafi 2y agoWatching movies with your baby is spending quality time in my book. Doomscrolling, buying random shit you don’t need, not having the headspace to think clearly are the issues we were talking about.
- Thorrez 2y agoMy son's pediatrician said no screens until he's 2 years old.
- Carrok 2y agoIt is pretty easy to not subscribe to a service run by an objectively evil oligarch, but maybe that's just me. I'd rather support local retailers and not receive a fraud product.
- Thorrez 2y agoMy point wasn't that it's difficult to not subscribe to Amazon Prime. That would be pretty easy, because all I would lose is a discount. My point was that my intention is to subscribe to a discount on shopping, but a video streaming service comes along for the ride.
- Carrok 2y agoI'm saying don't subscribe to either product offering from, again, an objectively evil oligarch.
- Aurornis 2y ago> How? I had a baby. No more time for any for any of that. I actually got back into TV shows and books when we had kids. Lots of downtime holding and feeding the baby.
- Thorrez 2y agoMy son's pediatrician said no screens until he's 2 years old, and it's hard for me to watch something without him watching. I haven't given up books though.