The Most Addictive Object for Me & Maybe You Too... "THE COMPUTER & THE INTERNET."

[usonian]

2. Old timer here. I built S-100 computers when there weren't any home computers.

It led to a pretty decent career in engineering and computers. So I forgive myself for a bit of overuse.

I only cruise DU and Hacker News, but that's a boatload of info. I prefer text over video because I am an infovore. I save everything as pdf so I can search it later and come up with answers.

Internet search, and the ad-filled internet are garbage and cesspools to me. I used the internet before "dot-com" and it was fun, not torture. I block ads ferociously.

But I take very long breaks. The weather was nice today, so I did massive brush cleanup with lots of chainsawing. I use the iPad mostly for holding music scores for the piano, and I go out and about taking photos. Got a decent sunrise and a neat sunset today.

I guess the point is to have lots of things to do, so that computers are squeezed into rest periods rather than vice versa.

Good luck with your "addiction". I can say that much of my retirement money is a result of mine.

I still have the S-100 computer, but it needs work on frayed cables, and all the disk drives went away long ago.