As I write this, I have my desktop with a BIOS error that has sent computer into the future, as the system time is 31/25/25455.

I don’t think the future is that fun. The year has 25 months.

I’m looking at BIOS update. Nothing serious. Already changed the CMOS. Only need to fetch the BIOS from the manufacturer website and flash it.

But I didn’t - and I still don’t - feel like it and instead turned off the machine and walked way and went to join my family, pet the dogs and take care of dinner.

It felt… good.

And if I’m writing this now, here, is because I wanted to brag a bit.

I keep reading and listening to doomerism about people not being able to turn off from the screens. But it is this simple.

You just walk away.

  • paper_moon@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I will say, if you wanted to get back into gaming, in a healthy-ish way, a steamdeck got me back into casually gaming, and it was nice. Not in a ‘I’m addicted to screen time, staring at my phone, doom scrolling’ kind of way, it was nice to boot something, load a game for 30 min and turn it off when I was tired of playing, and it was nice to play in the livingroom or not be locked away in an office with a monitor in front of me.

    I’ve been playing through the old Dungeon Siege game, 30-60 min at a time off and on the last few months.