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Comment by p2t2p | Hacker News Reader

I'm tree weeks into:

git clone https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts.git && cd hosts && pip3 install --user -r requirements.txt && python3 updateHostsFile.py --auto --replace --extensions social porn gambling

and going strong.

What I figured so far is that the trick is to stay away from the browser. So I've removed Safari on my iPhone (well, more like hidden), I've changed my rss client to newsboat - command line one, I moved all of my youtube subscriptions into rss, I've written a script that keeps track of videos I would like to watch from those rss subscriptions, downloads them in bulk in background (all hail systemd timers) and then gives me dmenu to pick a video to play in mpv.

I had Google app installed on my iPhone but I noticed that I use this thing to surf mindlessly again, so I deleted it. Basically I can't google stuff anymore on my phone =/. But so be it, it turned into communicator/navigator/music player/food orderer.

I did start reading books again because... Well, taking phone into toilet is pointless now, gotta do something, so I started reading books again. I'm actually reading multiple at the time, there is a paper book in the toilet, there is a book on my iphone and there is a book on my laptop, three completely unrelated topics so whenever I feel like procrastinating I read one of them. Well, except the one in toilet, I'm not procrastinating, I'm working hard there ;-).

Stay away from the browser guys.

What also works quite well is moving away from the screen altogether. Grab your (paper) notebook, sit down in a park, take it out when you feel the urge to write things down.

This especially helped me with my programming. Sketching a program on paper forces you to more or less skip the concrete code, but think more about flow, structure and goals.

When you are at home with your multi monitor workstation, it can sometimes make sense to take your laptop and sit down at thw kitchen table to break habits and start a focused session (easier to have a youtube video open on a multi display setup).

In the end it all boils down to maintaining a perception about your own work processes and trying not to lie to yourself.

I recently bought a minitel for something like 3€, and would like to convert this dumb terminal into a workstation for when I have to write long reports, distraction-free.

1200 bauds, plain-text ought to be enough for writing something in vim+latex, while setting this up could give me a meaningful project to spend some time on... I must say it has been collecting dust for now, while I procrastinate on HN (not entirely true, but I found that I tend to junk-fill my free time with consuming content and writing "internet conmments" like a fastfood addict).

I would appreciate if you could share that Youtube download script.

https://gist.github.com/dikeert/ce43bfe607e46c9c04e47ab5a0e6...

Thanks for that. For a while I had been meaning to create a script that would archive favorites/likes/etc across multiple websites (eg. soundcloud also) using cron + youtube-dl.

Nothing sucks like saving a video, forgetting about it, seeing a [Video removed] in your favorites and Youtube not even telling you what it was. That's just bad UX imo..

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