guitarlimeo 20 hours ago

I tried LeechBlock for a while and had that 64-char random string passphrase thing on. Turns out I became really quick at typing those 64 characters to get my dopamine fix.

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artisanspam 18 hours ago

You can make it up to 128 characters. That's impressive that you are able to type a random string of nonsense so fast.

My hack was to take a picture on my phone, have Apple's image recognition copy the string to my iCloud clipboard, and I'd paste it on my mac.

It's too easy to defeat the purpose of these things if you're even slightly driven.

kibwen 15 hours ago

> It's too easy to defeat the purpose of these things if you're even slightly driven.

Things like the OP and LeechBlock are tools for people who have already mostly conquered their addiction, to help keep them from relapsing. On their own, they're not sufficient to turn an addict into a non-addict.

darkwater 16 hours ago

May I ask you why you did install it in the first place, if you then hack your way around it?

Maybe the goal was to motivate you to find a hack anyway :)

artisanspam 13 hours ago

Because I am not always driven to type 128 random characters or even use my phone camera, so it does successfully stop me from procrastinating much of the time.

jasfi 20 hours ago

The same thing will happen with this app. The user will select any answer to just do what they wanted to do.

retSava 20 hours ago

Hahaha. Yeah. I started using a second browser...