Sail the high seas and never see an ad again. Make your time your own.
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Learn a language. Ad breaks are long enough for one or two lessons in Duolingo and probably other apps as well.
Oh gosh I've tried Duolingo so many times over the years and never gotten far. I'm impressed with people who keep it up.
For me, the key was finding a regular time during the day when I do the lessons. That's why I recommended you do it during the ad breaks.
Reached my 1700 day streak today
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The owl has my family
Meditation/mindfulness/breathing exercises
Mute the ads
Already muted compadre
I don't have any ad breaks.
That's cool. How was your day otherwise?
Ad free.
Anything else doing?
Not watching ads
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The way I try to approach these threads is to try and pretend there's a bunch of people sitting around having a conversation.
If you're familiar with the dynamic, and you emulate it here, you might enjoy yourself more. Or you could do this I suppose?
Each to their own.
If we're in a room, and we're comfortable enough to carry out a casual conversation, I'm gonna tease you for clinging to a bad take.
Offline Chess, Minesweeper, Sudoku etc. on your phone?
Using an RSS reader and catching up on news?
If you're watching something on TV, record it and watch it later instead of when it airs. Even starting it 15 minutes later would probably let you fast forward through many of the ads.
Have you ever played on boardgamearena? It's a website where you can join a bunch of board games with people around the world. When it's your turn, you have a certain number of hours or days to make your move (kinda like old timey chess by mail) and then go back to your life. You can be in many games at a time.
Oh that's cool, I'll check it out - thanks!
It should be just enough time to call your cable provider and cancel. We're not in the 2000's anymore
Get a little sketch book or tablet. Every time an ad comes on, draw an object (or dog! Or person!) in the room with you. Try to do the whole sketch over a single ad break, focusing on the biggest, most important shapes first. You'll learn to draw very quickly.
If you already know how to draw, draw. Use it or lose it!
Disclaimer: am artist, possibly biased. Doing art for its own sake is fun for me, so it doesn't need to have a 'point.'
I think this is my favourite suggestion. I can draw but like most people have placed my hobbies in the 'oh I need time to sit down and do that' which is rubbish really (I doodled through decades of office work and meetings) so that's certainly something I can do!
I'm also guilty of hoarding little notebooks, moleskins etc that are easy to keep on hand.
Cheers!
Stretch, focus on muscle groups in your hands or arms or shoulders or neck if you can't get up, back or hips or calfs or ankles if you're standing
If you watch it with an Arr there will never be advertisements but my guess is just play something good like slay the spire that you can quit and come back without losing a lot of progress
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Do body squats every ad break.
Drink water and walk around your living room. Stay hydrated and get a little exercise in. I also sometimes play mini crosswords because they can be done in less than a minute. Shoutout to !crossword@lemmy.world.
Watch YT shorts during the ad break. Use a laptop + Firefox + uBlock origin to block the YT ads. If you prefer to use a tablet or a phone, itβs also possible to block the ads.
The shorts are bad, but still better than TV ads, but the good thing is, they can be interrupted as soon as the ad break ends. Watching longer videos is also an option, but there will be uncomfortable interruptions.
Now that you have an alternative video source competing with old school media, you can start to think about which one you actually enjoy more. Maybe youβll find yourself watching more YT than whatever fake reality BS is on TV.
Tbh you can play 0h h1 on your phone. A simple level takes 30 some seconds
You could ponder the meaning of life, the universe and everything