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Not Catholic, but find it healthy to give things up now and then (e.g., NGNY) and thought jumping on the Lent bandwagon would be a good opportunity to take a break from YouTube, my personal music productivity nemesis. Anyone else interested?

Participants (Start Feb 22 -> End April 09):

  1. joeykaram

  2. PofM

  3. Claid

  4. Habit_Reform

  5. JamesM

  6. circuitghost

  7. Noisebuddy

  8. Jedilicious

  9. yokermoon

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How about give it up for purposes of entertainment, and allow yourself to use it for learning. That would require more self restraint than the masochistic approach youā€™re suggesting and would keep 40 days worth of simple questions from popping up here :slight_smile:

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I mostly only use it for learning anyway, as I have better sources of music and TV/movies. But the non-stop interruptions by adverts are getting out of hand so count me in. Every time they interrupt a video with an unskippable ad I think about quitting youtube.

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at least itā€™s not 60 seconds of unskippable ad chatter like soundcloud, I hadnā€™t been there in a while and yesterday I found this outā€¦ if I still had a soundcloud account, today I would no longer have a soundcloud account.

But I watch bad gear, I admit it. Is that educational? if there were no memeā€™s maybe. but I watch it a second time to read the memeā€™s, guilty. Maybe I should quit the second viewing of bad gear for 40 days, that may be my punishment for using youtube as a source of music meme entertainment.

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Iā€™m up for this. I canā€™t go a day without relying on YouTube to fill silence.

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Iā€™m already on the NGNY plus I quit smoking grass three weeks ago and plan to keep on that until at least the beginning of April so youā€™ll have to count me out.

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Not until I finish watching 3Body :upside_down_face:

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I just signed up for a three month trial of YouTube premium. Lol

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I didnā€™t exactly ā€œsolveā€ that, but nabbing Premium with VPN helped me choose a price that was worth skipping the agony.

mein Gott!

I could probably use a break but ehhhh the world and all that

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TBH, itā€™s the tutorials that are destroying my music productivity

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In reality, generally speaking when I think about how every synth in my price range is usually the same cost as getting back into my old hobby itā€™s kept me pretty sober for a while now. stupid reality.

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I recently had a cervical MRI and it was revealed that in addition the neck problems I went in for, I have an impacted sinus. I donā€™t sniff thangs so Iā€™m cutting out the only thing I do that seems like it could negatively impact said impactedness. I see the ENT on 3/30. So I suppose itā€™s likely Iā€™ll be off through April because I want this shit well and truly gone before I get sparky again.

Anyways Iā€™ve got nothing to say about youtube so I will make my exit.

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How about giving up DAWs for 40 days?

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sure I can give up dos for 40 daysā€¦

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I get that. I kind of hate music production tutorials.

Sometimes I play this game with myself, where I watch a tutorial and do it for the wrong platform and intentionally do it all wrong. It has sparked some cool ideas actually. Maybe thatā€™s a good idea for a YouTube channel: ā€œI didnā€™t follow the tutorialā€ lol

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the DNRTFM experience live stream.

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The trial completely hooked me. Using YouTube without ads makes it a completely different experience. I get an absolutely absurd amount of value out of YouTube already so Iā€™m happy to pay the subscription.

On topic: itā€™s just too useful to me to do something like this, but I respect that there are people here willing to give us a go!

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Weā€™re giving YT premium a shot at my place because my girlfriend uses it for Pilates sessions, and ads really mess up the flow for something like that. Iā€™m still checking whether itā€™s worth it for me, but so far I think itā€™s really nice. I was so tired of Sweetwater ads! :laughing:

I donā€™t think I use YouTube enough to merit needing a 40 day break, but yeah, I think itā€™s great to take breaks from things we do in excess. Things like this and NGNY are admirable.

Personally what I should probably do is limit time on my phone ā€“ itā€™s a ridiculous addiction. Smartphones (and the internet in general) are so useful for satisfying all my immediate curiosities, but I use it too much. I donā€™t know how realistic it is to take a real phone break, so Iā€™m trying to read more books these days to replace some of the time reading on my phone.

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I pull too many samples from YouTube, or I would be down.

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itā€™s incredible how you go to a website or order from it once and you literally have to clear your cookies to get rid of their youtube promos.

I looked at a usb charger cable that happened to belong to a blenderā€¦ went to the website once because the cable linked to it. Saw blender ads for the next 6 months.

I now own 9 blenders. thanks youtube.

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