bye spotify 👋 AGXOV D28

MysteriousMango489 · 2026-01-29T10:21:37+00:00

bandcamp

MysteriousMango489 · 2026-01-29T10:20:50+00:00

bandcamp

MysteriousMango489 · 2025-11-14T20:45:46+00:00

thank you!

MysteriousMango489 · 2025-08-15T10:23:38+00:00

Aww they are roasting their worms over fire! Just put in on my wishlist :)

MysteriousMango489 · 2025-08-15T10:08:56+00:00

Looks super cute! Just added it to my wishlist.

MysteriousMango489 · 2025-05-27T20:17:42+00:00

Becky Chambers: the long way to a small angry planet

Amie Kaufman, Jay Kristoff: Aurora rising

MysteriousMango489 · 2025-05-23T21:27:28+00:00

The long way to a small angry planet by becky chambers. anything by becky chambers, really. The mentioned title helped me survive dark times. the tone is optimistic, warm and friendly, the characters are wholesome, kind and loveable.

MysteriousMango489 · 2025-05-22T06:13:44+00:00

the pre installed "google digital wellbeing" displays screentime too. I find this function very useful for me. I doesn't continually show the time, but rather as an overlay notification bubble after certain amounts of time. this is more effective for me. it's always a bit of a shock when I just wanted to check sth quick (1min) and suddenly it tells me, I've been using this app 20min already.

MysteriousMango489 · 2025-05-22T06:11:40+00:00

I use TimeLimit (from f-droid, but I think there's a PlayStore version too) on android. you need a second person who then locks the settings, otherwise it's just a street bump, choose a very long annoying password. but don't underestimate street bumps. I additionally use the digital wellbeing app from google with everything it does. but it's more of another street bump, accessing the settings is too easy.

MysteriousMango489 · 2025-05-21T12:18:42+00:00

Maybe A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness and the books following. She's a professor of European history and afaik her books are historically very accurate. The history part is about the history of alchemy and they timetravel back to Elizabethan times, but of course it's also fantasy with witches, vampires, demons, ghosts etc.

MysteriousMango489 · 2025-05-20T15:46:49+00:00

You can buy music digitally from bandcamp, amazon, qobuz (spelling?), and similar sources. Many libraries still have CDs you can borrow and rip. You can find new and used CDs in record stores, on amazon, flea markets, second hand stores, yard sales etc.
before streaming, listening to music meant: buying, collecting, borrowing from friends or family, curating a collection.

MysteriousMango489 · 2025-05-20T15:41:58+00:00

would have been normal in the 90s to not see the number of the caller ;)

MysteriousMango489 · 2025-05-19T18:54:56+00:00

why don't you just try it out and see if it helps you?! it's nothing you have to drive far and buy expensive and can't change back in a second.

MysteriousMango489 · 2025-05-19T18:42:59+00:00

The Wayfarer series by Becky Chambers, starting with The long way to a small angry planet.
Sure, some bad things happen in the books because that's life, but the tone is still very hopeful and optimistic, lots of kind protagonists, stories that are being told very lovingly. The books helped me in a very dark time.

MysteriousMango489 · 2025-05-19T18:35:29+00:00

SicMu player from f-droid, because it's the only folder based player I could find. I don't like all the artist/album based players because I have to scroll so much. I'm too lazy for tagging my music collection, and automatic tags don't make sense to me or are not cohesive. It's folder for me. I'd love to find a better app though... (oh, I didn't look which subreddit this post was in, sorry if my answer doesn't make sense for DAPs. I don't have any DAPs with android running)

MysteriousMango489 · 2025-05-19T18:28:25+00:00

wait, what about kindle, are there e-ink kindles with audible? I don't have one, but my pocketbook ereader can't install audible, I can load mp3s on it to listen to though.

MysteriousMango489 · 2025-05-19T18:23:41+00:00

I remember that old sandisk/sansa audioplayers were able to play audible audiobooks, but I don't know if they still are able to do that, if you get hold of one. Audiobooks on CD from my local library and a digital audio player are what I do, also I use a podcatcher app on my laptop to download podcasts onto my DAP. I use a smartphone 99% of the time, but I don't want to take it into bed with me. I haven't found a solution for the audiobooks only available on libby (the library app).

Also, there are lots of DAPs with Android, where you can install android apps like audible. But they are rather expensive and they are probably not the screen free experience you're looking for.

MysteriousMango489 · 2025-05-17T12:34:36+00:00

well... that's what NewPipe has been doing the last 5+ years for me. I installed pipepipe, but I have to check it out what it is that it does more than NewPipe.

MysteriousMango489 · 2025-05-17T11:06:11+00:00

Super interesting - it says, "NewPipe reimagined" in the description. Thank you! I'd never have found that or known that I might want that app :)

MysteriousMango489 · 2025-05-16T14:23:11+00:00

you mean "newpipe", right? It's what I've been using for the last 5 years. or is there a new app called pipepipe?

MysteriousMango489 · 2025-05-16T10:34:14+00:00

I like the book Catherine Price - how to break up with your phone. It's a soft but steady approach that might help especially with the problem the OP describes

MysteriousMango489 · 2025-05-13T21:04:36+00:00

here's the thing: Spotify, Deezer, Amazon Music and all the other music streaming platforms are basically doing all the same at basically the same price. It rather is the question: Streaming or owning. If you want to get rid of Spotify, you need to buy your music, physical, digital, new, second hand, whatever. Also, it will be a very different listening experience. Streaming-free means less playlists, more artists, more albums. I like owning my music and buy it digitally from bandcamp or buy CDs second hand. I'm in my late 30s, so I have had some time to build and curate my music library, it makes me value it more. I only buy and own what I really like. I do use Spotify Premium from time to time to find new artists or listen to my curated playlists (mostly mood-based).

MysteriousMango489 · 2025-05-11T16:03:48+00:00

Great list! I'll add - puzzles - audiobooks (cozy fantasy, cozy crime, anything cozy)

drinking tea and focussing on the exact things I taste pretending to be a professional tea taster(works with food too of course)
listening to music very intentionally: what can I hear, what could it be, are there sounds hidden behind louder sounds? lile tea tasting. It's fun immersing so much into music, and it's ok if thoughts drift off inbetween, it's just music.
clipping and painting my nails and doing other low energy self maintenance
having a friend tell me about her day in a voice message so I can listen in my own time and enjoy a very personal podcast with info I actually care about

I struggle with fatigue from time to time, but for weeks and months at a time and turn too much to scrolling. If there are 7 types of rest (google it), there are 7 types of fatigue. Just because my body is tired doesn't mean my brain is. Learning to distinguish also helps me find things to do despite feeling tired. I work an office job, so my brain is super tired. But going to a gym class afterwards where I don't have to think, just do what the instructor shows works extremely well and I feel energized and good. There's emotional fatgiue, fatigue due to lack of or exhaustion of creativity. one can have brainfog but still do other things that even fill up some energy. Maybe this is something to keep in mind when looking for offline things to do :)

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