I leave my home office and connect with my kids or go outside. Just the action of getting up and leaving the work space and starting a new activity seems to do the trick for me, YMMV of course.
It used to, when I cared a lot more. But at this point in my life work is just a means to an end - a source of income to allow me to pursue passion projects and support my family. I do my job as well as I can and when "stressful" things happen that are out of my control - I just ride it out.
IIRC OTA use is climbing. I believe a lot of the market is lower income and/or rural. New user so not sure if I can post a link but a 2022 Nielsen report:
> Nielsen divides OTA home into three segments, those with no streaming subscription VOD services (and maybe no broadband); those with SVOD, but without a virtual multichannel video programming distributor, such as Hulu Plus Live TV, YouTube TV or Sling TV; and those with SVOD and vMVPDs.
> The largest group uses OTA and SVOD at 9.3% of the country, up from 7.2% in 2018. The OTA homes with vMVPDs rose to 1.9% from 1.2%, while the OTA only home fell to 4.1% from 5.9%.
> People in homes that go over-the-air but don’t stream have an average age of 61, only 13% of them have children and their median income is $22,800.
> People in homes that combine over-the-air viewing with at least one streaming service have an average age of 45, 40% of them have kids and the median income is $49,000. In the homes that have OTA and a vMVPD, the average age is 49, 35% have children and the median household income is $77,000.
I think you were downvoted because your comment wasn't substantive and perceived to not be on topic. If anyone cares about their data privacy I would expect HN users to be on the frontlines.
I feel torn about how sites (like reddit/Twitter mentioned in the article) are going about their monetization. Surely these companies can not run these sites for free long term - they have to make money somehow. As a user, all of these changes negatively impact me and devalue their platforms but what alternative is there? Everywhere I go now I see either login/pay walls, my data is getting packaged up and sold off to third parties, or a mix of both.
Free and open web is what we all want but how can massive services like reddit or Twitter operate long term while losing so much money?
I don't reckon that is super on-topic unless you are trying to relate this article to the amount of people willing to hand over their personal info via Threads/Meta. But that seems like an aggressive reach.
The results weren't formally published.