Yes I remember doing the same. I'd probably be about 12 years old, and my dad asked "What is this Ubuntu thing you got in the mail?", even now he asks me about Ubuntu.
This is something I have been thinking about a lot since moving from programming into management. Some sort of device to measure the data on this would be really interesting, if only just to see that other people in the same position experience the same thing.
I have been using Temu recently for electronic components. There are some reasonable value kits of resistors, LEDs, breadboards, etc that I use in my workshop.
I'm convinced that procrastination is not the problem with social media - it is FOMO. In this regard social media are not all equal, there is a hierarchy. In this way hackernews as social media is nearly a misnomer, I am not being projected upon by the perfect life of a billion people, algorithmically picked by my insecurities.
What if you miss out on some amazing kernel of knowledge (that also happens to confirm your biases)? You'll need to read every 500 comment threads to find out!
Yeah the problem with these (pipelines, compilations) is they last long enough to take some of your time but not long enough to, say, read a full article, complete a tutorial, watch an educational video from the beginning to end etc. So HN somehow falls nicely in there.
Waiting on someone to join a meeting. Which, to be fair, since COVID is much less of an issue than it used to be, ±2 mins is pretty standard where as before waiting 10 minutes for everyone to find the correct physical room was pretty standard.
I did something similar on an easyJet flight, I wrote a little Python script to save the altitude and speed data from the free WiFi. They have a cool 3D WebGL rendering of the plane in the air like Flight Simulator, but the satellite imagery was really low res.
