That's clever! Instead of going cold-turkey (which is very difficult, especially solo with no emotional support), you make your addiction less palatable, which naturally aids in reducing its...
That's clever! Instead of going cold-turkey (which is very difficult, especially solo with no emotional support), you make your addiction less palatable, which naturally aids in reducing its appeal over time.
It's also a good reminder of the fact that I need some sort of an app to let me use the web slower, for web dev purposes. If a site loads slowly even though it doesn't have that many bells and whistles, it's worth checking out – either for blocking or to make sure I don't make the same mistake in my own web design.
Sure, but that's per-tab and has to be enabled manually on every instance. I'm currently telling you this from the second window of the Chromium fork I'm using, so you can surmise: one-tab...
Sure, but that's per-tab and has to be enabled manually on every instance. I'm currently telling you this from the second window of the Chromium fork I'm using, so you can surmise: one-tab browsing is not my style.
Something that simulates the effect on the Internet connection itself would be fantastic.
I've tried to do the whole blocking thing for a while, but it didn't really work. Maybe just slowing them down will work -- but I'm worried I'd just go and turn it off.
I've tried to do the whole blocking thing for a while, but it didn't really work. Maybe just slowing them down will work -- but I'm worried I'd just go and turn it off.
That's clever! Instead of going cold-turkey (which is very difficult, especially solo with no emotional support), you make your addiction less palatable, which naturally aids in reducing its appeal over time.
It's also a good reminder of the fact that I need some sort of an app to let me use the web slower, for web dev purposes. If a site loads slowly even though it doesn't have that many bells and whistles, it's worth checking out – either for blocking or to make sure I don't make the same mistake in my own web design.
Google chrome let’s you set the Speed in which you connect to a website in the dev tools
Sure, but that's per-tab and has to be enabled manually on every instance. I'm currently telling you this from the second window of the Chromium fork I'm using, so you can surmise: one-tab browsing is not my style.
Something that simulates the effect on the Internet connection itself would be fantastic.
On Linux you can do that with the tc program.
See for ex. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/83936/is-there-a-method-for-simulating-high-latency
I've tried to do the whole blocking thing for a while, but it didn't really work. Maybe just slowing them down will work -- but I'm worried I'd just go and turn it off.
If addictions were easy to get rid of they'd just be things you did for a little while.
This at least gives people another option.
True true! It is a novel idea. Not as... Puritanical as blocking, but still disincentivizing.