Could this be used as an alternative to Parental Controls? Appple's implementation of parental controls is so deficient that it gives me PTSD every time I need to configure it.
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#32I call it Phonevorce and I've done pretty well by
- Using AdGuard's pattern matching to block URLs I found distracting (news sites, youtuble)
- Deleted all apps I spend too much time on (basically down to Discord where I have two or three communities I check in on)
- Leaving my phones in the other room all day
- Turning all notifications off except for a very small select few whose (calls only) go through
- Deleting all social media (still have HackerNews (computer only), Discord)
It's great! Love it. Fuck your phone. I use mine to check bank accounts, do Spanish flash cards, and occasionally to look at housing and life is calmer and nicer and I get more done.
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#33There’s another solution, much faster, it’s to use Screen Time and have your partner own the passcode. I hold my partner’s phone passcode and it’s fantastic to control when he’s allowed to doom scroll
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#34The active readers counter is a trip. I’ve read and viewed graphs depicting how much traffic HN can bring to a web page, but to see it in real time is something else.
TBH, it's kind of hard to square "I locked down my phone to have less distractions in my life" with "I put a counter on my page that changes 10 times a second while you're trying to read"
I didn't even notice that there was a counter before I opened the HN comments.
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#35Not good
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#36I don't understand why people leave email notifications enabled. There is almost no email I get that needs instant action. The one exception is delivery notifications, so I can retrieve the package immediately, and I used a filter to get notifications just for those.
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#37If you disable the App Store, as OP claims to, does that also stop installed apps receiving updates?
No.
Source: Used to do enterprise Apple MDM for a living.
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#38I was looking into doing something similar recently. Thanks for the timely post!
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#39One of my daughters has dumbed down her phone. I was hoping it was a generational thing — the twenty-somethings are saying fuck off to phones.
Me, I barely use my phone. But then I'm stuck a laptop guy/generation.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Author here: It's powered by Instant, the company I helped found. The counter is pretty easy to set up. Here's how it works on the blog: 1. You set up a schema: https://github.com/stopachka/stopaio/blob/main/src/instant.s... 2. And then use `presence` to write an ActiveCounter: https://github.com/stopachka/stopaio/blob/main/src/app/Activ...
Your product placement link to instantdb totally worked btw (as in the one in your allowed websites not this one here)
Heck yeah : ).