background: got a fairphone 5, stock android version 15 because of digital ID necessity or else i effectively lose citizenship (we gotta push back against this in the nordics but that's sociology & bureaucracy so saving it for another thread)
i got: • zero amount of TikTok YouTube etc. apps • greyscale • brightness turnt down • screen usage tracker apps
here's my screentime stats for this week
it's literally all from ThreadiVerse (PieFed with Interstellar client), FLOS dating apps (Alovoa & Duolicious) + a regional non-free dating app forum suite and lastly reading manga watching porn...
i've never been this much bedrotting since i was a teen in the 2010s and not even then.
what i need is a way to enforce recommended guidelines that do exist for phone (ab)use: • that the phone shuts off after 2 hours of screentime per day. alternatively blank screen or just annoyance. • second-long breaks/timeouts every few minutes.
that is literally all. on a linux OS like PostMarketOS, SailFishOS, UbuntuTouch this is guaranteed doable, right? i can make the OS switch and appreciate insight into an operator implementing this in comments so that all can learn. it's surely a meagre >=99 LoC shellscript source code to implement.
but on android? idk if that's allowed or even possible to implement on stock android.
what are your thoughts? abhorring situation, all replies welcome. let's keep it a constructive thread since this is a public health issue i wanna bring up in the open
interesting with parental control settings and digital wellbeing as mentioned in another comment
Parental controls usually only require a password to unlock or bypass, so if you're worried you'll just unlock it yourself you may want to ask a trusted friend/ family/ partner to set the password for you.
yeah this version of android didn't show up any parental settings with locks and stuff. does Android 15 just not have it like that?
It does, but being Google they pulled the more granular controls like screen time settings into a dedicated app: Google Family Link