i basically waste my entire day watching youtube on my chromecast and im tired of it 😭 don’t get me wrong, i LOVE youtube and i don’t want to quit entirely, i just want to not waste my entire day watching youtube. It mostly starts in the morning when i eat breakfast where it kinda snowballs from there, or in the afternoon when i get home and basically watch the rest of the day. Also, im watching on a tv, specifically a chromecast

thanks

  • fratermus@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I find YT a valuable resource for my geeky/tech interests. My approach to avoiding time suck is:

    • use RSS rather than browsing to catch new vids from creators I value
    • download with yt-dlp
    • pull down “talking head” vids as audio-only and add them to the podcast queue instead of video queue
    • work around the house wearing headphones for most vids, looking at the screen only when something visually important is happening.

    While I’m writing this yt-dlp is pulling down the day’s video queue and storing it on the media server for later consumption.