Instead of watching TV, I learned to play wind synthesizer - made backing tracks for hundreds of songs - learned lead guitar - learned enough HTML to make a few web pages - learned to make style and song collections for Band-in-a-Box and turned it into a side hustle - and had a lot of good, quality, fun time with the woman in my life.
I gigged on cruise ships from 1986-1989. They didn't have TV back then, so I got in the habit of doing other things. when I got off the ship, I tried watching again, but found myself thinking, "I'd be having more fun if I was doing this __________."
So I eventually gave in and disconnected.