Using an $8 smart outlet to avoid brainrot
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Using an $8 smart outlet to avoid brainrot
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Re: Using an $8 smart outlet to avoid brainrot
#2I've never thought of using a smart plug button as a switch to run a script - pretty neat idea I might use for some other projects.
I hope you have more luck than me with sticking with the switch instead of just editing /etc/hosts.
Re: Using an $8 smart outlet to avoid brainrot
#3Love the idea! And thanks for sharing the script =)
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#4I can imagine that could be nice feature on a router. Trigger fw blocking automatically but to unlock you have to go to the router and press physical button.
I guess I can implement that on raspberry pi.
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#5I also hear that a rubber band on your wrist is useful for addiction.
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#6A timer seems appropriate so it resets itself automatically.
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#7My anti-distraction setup uses multiple dnsmasqs, one of them has a long list of blocked (ad-)domains, and DNS tags, something like this (1).
So the devices with the "black" tag have a different DNS server (it's the same computer, but it has 2 IPs), and has DNS-level ad-blocking (convenient for phones) and can't access reddit, Twitter, etc. One device doesn't have blocks, in case the aggressive blocking breaks something. I guess it'd be great to use a slow laptop to browse brainrot sites to discourage me from doing so.
(1) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22467430/dnsmasq-tags-an...
Re: Using an $8 smart outlet to avoid brainrot
#8my problem with things like this is that it's trivially easy to just.. stop the script. What's the point when it adds so little friction?
Re: Using an $8 smart outlet to avoid brainrot
#9I've never thought of using a smart plug button as a switch to run a script - pretty neat idea I might use for some other projects. I hope you have more luck than me with sticking with the switch instead of just editing /etc/hosts.
I rigged up one of these so my wife could go push the button and her phone would play an alarm sound so she could find it when it goes missing.
Was a good hack for a bit, but then the children figured out they could actually use the same button to _find their mom_, since the she was usually colocated with the phone!
Re: Using an $8 smart outlet to avoid brainrot
#10my problem with things like this is that it's trivially easy to just.. stop the script. What's the point when it adds so little friction?
For a lot of behavioral things, tiny nudges are just enough friction. At one point, I wrote a bit of CSS in stylus to hide the downvote button on HN to see how often I thought a downvote was really earned (not that often). It was trivial to undo [or use another browser], but gave just that small amount of friction to drive my own awareness.