Mama told me not to come.

She said, that ain’t the way to have fun.

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Set time limits.

    There are apps that block opening apps longer than some amount of time. I used that to reduce my Reddit usage to a healthy level before I eventually bailed on it. Or you can use the simpler strategy of setting an alarm for yourself (e.g. if you want to play an hour, set an hour timer when you play).

    If you find you’re consistently going over your time limit for a given thing, stop using it and replace it with something that you have a healthier relationship with. At a certain level, it’s an addiction, so cut out what you’re addicted to and replace it with something else that’s interesting. For example, if you like shooters but Splatoon is sucking too much of your time, maybe play Metro, Superhot, or Wolfenstein, each of those is SP only and has a clear ending, so you’re unlikely to get addicted to it.

    I switched largely to SP games, and now I’m much happier and have a healthier relationship to games. The same is true for other things I used to spend way too much time on.



  • How do you arrive at that conclusion?

    Mozilla has consistently supported user privacy and the open web, which is consistent with their mission statement. They also need to pay the bills, and they’ve done that in a very unobtrusive way. Look at Pocket, which is easy to disable and is reasonably privacy friendly (for what it does). Look at Mozilla VPN, which is just repackaged Mullvad, essentially the gold standard for privacy-friendly VPN.

    Yeah, Mozilla does a lot of stuff I disagree with and I’d run it differently, but I think they do enough good that they’re on the good end of the spectrum. Using Firefox isn’t the lesser of evils, it’s a decent option among good options. Maybe it’s not the best for you, but it’s pretty good.









  • Configuring automatic login shouldn’t be difficult. Here are instructions on Ubuntu (should work on any GNOME system), and here’s how to do it with pretty much any KDE system. This is a feature of desktop managers (like gdm or sddm), not desktop environments (like GNOME or KDE), so if neither works for you, you’re probably using a different one. If that’s the case, reply with your distro and as much info as you can provide.

    That said, what exactly is the problem you’re trying to solve? It’s usually a lot easier to login remotely using SSH instead of remote desktop, and then use console commands to do whatever you need. To login with SSH:

    ssh <user>@<IP address>
    

    So if your username is tux and your IP is 1.2.3.4:

    ssh tux@1.2.3.4
    

    And then if you want to reboot:

    sudo reboot
    

    And if you want to shutdown:

    sudo shutdown -h now
    

    I use an app on my phone to login, so I can get it done while sitting on the toilet in like 10s (I use it to unlock my computer so my kids can use it). If you’re accessing from your computer and just need to run a single command, provide it after the command in quotes (note, sudo commands won’t prompt for a password and will just fail).