How to force yourself to leave the computer using the leave command

Post by x87678r » Sat, Nov 21, 2020, 1:27 PM UTC

ineedasername wrote: post #2

I'd like something I could use to lock me out of everything but a whitelisted set of programs & websites for a set period of time. I can't tell you what a relief it would be to have little choice but to focus on work tasks instead of get distracted. Sure, I would need to have the key to the lock in case I really needed it, but it would need to be something mildly time consuming, like answering a set of relatively sim…

Post by swiley » Sat, Nov 21, 2020, 2:23 PM UTC

s_gourichon wrote: post #11

Long story short, this is related to keeping focus when you're working as a freelancer, with the same laptop used for work and personal life. There's a simple solution that has been working well for me for years: have 2 local accounts on the machine, with everything separated, even different visual themes (like, bright for personal time, grey for professional time), and a different base color, e.g. blue and green. On…

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Nov 21, 2020, 3:16 PM UTC

ineedasername wrote: post #2

I'd like something I could use to lock me out of everything but a whitelisted set of programs & websites for a set period of time. I can't tell you what a relief it would be to have little choice but to focus on work tasks instead of get distracted. Sure, I would need to have the key to the lock in case I really needed it, but it would need to be something mildly time consuming, like answering a set of relatively sim…

Post by amwelles » Sat, Nov 21, 2020, 3:50 PM UTC

blockmarker wrote: post #7

ineedasername wrote: post #2

I'd like something I could use to lock me out of everything but a whitelisted set of programs & websites for a set period of time. I can't tell you what a relief it would be to have little choice but to focus on work tasks instead of get distracted. Sure, I would need to have the key to the lock in case I really needed it, but it would need to be something mildly time consuming, like answering a set of relatively sim…

I use ColdTurkey, you can block any website or program you want on a schedule, or on a timer. You can add breaks, allowances and Pomodoro style setups. You can remove them whenever you want, but you can add a password I believe, or choose the option to be unable to remove the block while it is active(if you do this, make sure you leave a way to delete it). I too wanted something like that, must solve an equation or s…

Post by Wowfunhappy » Sat, Nov 21, 2020, 4:37 PM UTC

spijdar wrote: post #16

alanbernstein wrote: post #14

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I decided to try this when I got a new Macbook recently. There are a few hiccups: - Firefox simply does not work in macos after switching accounts. This seems like a completely unacceptable bug, but it has apparently existed for years. - home brew does not seem to expect to be used by two users, so I've had to switch into my personal account to use it. - configuring my os, shell, browser, etc now requires doing every…

For anyone interested, the problem with homebrew is it relies on "/usr/local" being owned by the current user to allow installing software without needing a password every time you invoke "brew". Naturally this requires you only use that user to invoke homebrew. Macports does things in a more conventional way, requiring sudo to elevate privileges to root before installing software, but should also work properly on a…