Limit Facebook time Android phones.

Set App limits in Android with Wellbeing controls

If you are anything like me, the combination of COVID, Politics and everything else going on in 2020 may be a bit overwhelming. There are days when I have found myself glued to Facebook and at the end of the day accomplished nothing. Well, I found a way to set up my Android phone to limit the amount of time that I spend on Facebook. You can set up your Android phone to limit your time on Facebook, or any other app. This article will walk you through it. I have also learned that there is a setting called “Screen time” in Apple IOS phones.

Step-by-Step guide to set up your Android phone to limit your time on Facebook.

Step 1: Go to your Settings App

Then within the Settings, look for Digital Wellbeing and Parental Controls. Click on that option.

This is where you can set up your Android phone to limit your time on Facebook, or any other app. When you get inside, the first thing you are going to see is a graph of how much time you have used your phone today, and what you were doing. There are some interesting things in here that allow you to control your experience with your phone, such as notifications and of course the “Ways to disconnect” that we will be going into. Go into Ways to disconnect now.

We want to go into the Dashboard within Android’s Wellbeing and parental controls to set the timer.

And within the dashboard, you will see that it starts on “Screen Time”. You can view how much time you have spent in front of your phone today, and for 7 days. This is where you can set the timer. Click on the hourglass next to Facebook (or any other app), and you can tell set the timer for how long you want to set limits for each app. In the image below, you can see that I set Facebook at 90 minutes or 1 hour and 30 minutes.

On this same screen, if you click on each day of the week, it will tell you the details from all your apps for whatever day you have selected.

Once you have Set the timer, it starts working immediately. When you start getting close to the time limit, it will provide you with a timer that you can see in the app that tells you how long you have used it, and how much time you have left. This does not show up until you are approaching the time limit.

When you have exceeded the time limit, it will grey out the icon on your phone screen for that app, and it will not let you launch it again until the next day. I imagine you can override this setting by going in and turning off the timer in the settings location (I have not tried that).

So if you feel like you are spending too much time on Facebook, or any other app, You can set app limites with the Wellbeing and Parental controls. This is a way you can take control of your time and let the technology help you limit that screen time. Go outside, wear a mask, peace.

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Let’s Try this again.

I tried to jump start my blog again back in March of 2020, but I got hit with several waves of really strange illnesses. It took me out and I slept for most of 3 months.

Like a lot of the rest of the world, I have about had it with the negativity and tribalism on social media. So, I am going to take that time that I was spending as a consumer, and convert that to time as a producer.

But, I am back and I am once again strong and ready to start sharing my quirky hippy redneck view of the world. I have added a number of social media accounts (ironic eh?) to this page so there will be more ways for you to follow my …. ramblings.

Peace ya’ll, watch for more very soon.

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Fighting Social Isolation

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Update: 10-7-2020
I got really sick right after this article was posted and spent 3 months mostly sleeping as wave after wave of weird diseases took me out. I am back, I am strong again, and I am ready to start doing my thing again.

Hello everyone who is just learning about Puttin’ Up with Doc T. The Doc part of my name came from my work on using technology for community benefit. I am leveraging my many years of working in the area of online community to try to help people to get through this pandemic by creating opportunities to reduce social isolation as a result of social distancing. Watch my Facebook page for opportunities to join me and other online for casual conversation, happy hours, sing alongs or whatever we decide to do.

Self-care is a huge part of what we are going through, and you may find that just being able to see and talk to someone will help you take the edge off. I know it has already helped me.

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Making basic bread from scratch for the first time bread baker

I decided to make this story in the first week of the COVID-19 pandemic when it became obvious that there were going to be people who did not have the ability to go to the store to get bread. The video is a walk through of making the most basic of breads, but one that is still tasty and better than what you would have bought at the store anyway.

I chose to make it completely from scratch, and provide some tips on ways you might change it to work with the circumstances you are having in your own home.

Recipe:

  • 5 to 6 cups of all purpose flour, this could be any kind of flour but you will need to adjust your water to flour ratio with other flours.
  • 2 Cups of warm water, about 105 degrees F or the temperature you would use to warm up a baby’s bottle for feeding. Just over body temperature and under 110 degrees.
  • 1 Tablespoon of rapid rise yeast, or any yeast you have on hand
  • 1 Teaspoon (or up to 1 Tablespoon) of table salt
  • 1 Teaspoon of sugar, to get the yeast growing
  • 2 Tablespoons of Olive Oil (optional)

The video shows how to get the yeast growing so you know it is working before you mix it into the flour. I also mixed the flour completely by hand in the video to show how easy it is to do this with almost no equipment other than a stove.

The video is long, but very informative about the Why of making bread from scratch. This is aimed at the first time bread maker.

Making Bread from Scratch for the first time bread baker

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Spicy Pork Salad and Artichoke

I bet you thought I had disappeared from the Internet. Nope, just let myself get too busy and the fun stuff like this channel took the back seat. I’m getting over that now, and so here I am with a video showing how I prepared a Spicy Pork Salad. This is not a hot spicy, it is a flavorful spicy. It uses a number of interesting ingredients and of course Doc T’s unique approach to whatever he does.

The video below also shows how to prepare and cook a fresh Artichoke.

Spicy Pork Salad

Grinding the edges off of slate tiles

We have a bathroom project going that involves quite a few slate tiles. Part of the process is to knock off the corners of the 90 degree cuts to make the lines softer, more natural, and to bring out the beauty of the hidden layers of slate.

We put up a lot of dust in the process. Today, Doc T is going to show you how that process works.

Puttin up slate dust with Doc T.

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Blowing Snow off the Hot Tub

Snow blowing, Wisconsin Style

By now you know that pretty much nothing keeps DocT out of the hot tub. Snow is on that list. Problem is, when you get 8 or 10 inches, you have to get the snow off the hot tub. Here is how the doc does it when it is cold enough to snow powder.

This is blowing snow, which is different from throwing snow.

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Extreme Hot Tubbing – Polar Vortex Edition

When the temperatures get really cold, it is time to go in the hot tub.

Today it was -31 in Menomonie, Wisconsin.  So naturally DocT decided it was time to set a new personal extreme hot tubbing record.

And just for Kicks, here are some of my previous videos about extreme hot tubing.

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Happy 74th Birthday Mom

Today is mom’s 74th Birthday.

Wow!

Spending a lot of time lately with her thoughts

I spoke to her a number of times today. Left a singing Echo message before sunrise. Then I called her later in the morning to say hi. We had a good conversation, she is pretty good today. Then I called her 45 minutes later just to be silly, and we had a good laugh. Then I called her 5 minutes later and we had a good talk. In the process I was checking to see if she would remember the previous calls, just checking up on her.  It is a thing I do.  She did remember from call to call. She couldn’t always do that, and a lot of things now still never make it to memory.
 
But we had fun. She really likes her Echo, she will tell you about it every time you call. Even if the calls are all on the same day. 😉
 
I could tell that she was doing a lot of thinking back, reminiscing. I guess with Alzheimer’s that is the path you take.
She has always been one to compare people across generations. She uses it as a way of framing her life. You know, “Oh, you get your sense of humor from your grandfather”, or “That Xander is James‘s little Michael. Typical family stuff. We talked like that for a long while, or she talked and I agreed with her along the way.

Group Picture
Not so long ago

I think most of the time she is sort of just sitting there with her thoughts. And I wonder what those thoughts are. I wonder if she sees the world at all like she did before, or if her memories have moved and reshaped to bring her to where she is. If you ask anyone in the family, they will tell you the thoughts have moved, reshaped and even appeared out of nowhere. Nature hates a vacuum and when your mind starts losing a hold on the ones that were there, I guess maybe it has to create something to put in their place. It can be really frustrating for the people around them, I guess it probably is for them too. 
I am glad that her mind has moved in a happy way, she is genuinely happy, or at least that is what I believe.  It is nice to talk with her about love and joy.  It is nice to share love and joy with her.
She told me the nicest thing today when we were almost done with our talking.  Mom said, “You know, your spirit is a lot like mine.”  Well let me tell you, that is about the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me.  I love you Mom, Happy Birthday. 
74, that is just hard to believe.

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Cold Weather Hot Tubbing

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A Hot tub in Bitterly  Cold Weather

Damn, it is cold outside!

In case you haven’t noticed, it is cold outside.  Winter in Wisconsin has seen many days and nights with bitterly cold weather.  I will be the first to tell you that my tolerance for winter gets lower and lower each year.  But if you are going to live in Wisconsin, you are either going to learn to embrace winter, or it is going to bring you down.

There are a lot of ways to embrace winter.  Many people use winter sports like snow shoeing, skating, skiing, sledding, snow snowmobiling, ice fishing and really anything that gets you out and doing something in the snow.  I enjoy many of those myself.

But most days I can’t do those things.  On those days, I turn to my hot tub.

Cold Weather Hot tubbing

So in Puttin’ Up style, I have taken to the video.  After going out at 0 F and throwing snow for an hour, I decided that it would be a good time to head for the hot tub.  This next video talks about one of the best ways to combine a few of my favorite winter things.

Cold Weather Hot Tub Survival Kit

When it gets bitterly cold, got being prepared can actually be dangerous.  In the video below, I give some suggestions for things you should use to safely enter your tub when the temperatures are so cold your hand will freeze to the cover lifter.

Alright, so some of you may be asking, is Doc T wearing clothes in that Hot Tub?  If you can’t tell, it doesn’t really matter does it.

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