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A few years ago I started developing addictions and as a result I just uninstalled everything. That is, LinkedIn, Youtube, chess.com, even personal gmail (I don't have facebook or any other 'social' app).

I was still tempted to waste time on my laptop, so I turned off every functionality (i.e. javascript) on pages I was visiting, and I added custom rules on adblock, so it's too many steps to enable everything again. On pages I wanted to visit (Linkedin due to messages from recruiters) I added restrictive custom adblock rules that only allow accepting invites and replying to messages.

I noticed I was becoming badly addicted to reading news and watching videos, also to chess. And somebody here adviced just to cut it off. It was good piece of advice.

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> I was becoming badly addicted to reading news and watching videos, also to chess

Chess is the first step toward delinquency and madness.

I'm asking out of pure curiosity as I'm not native English speaker.

Chess leading to madness - I think I get the joke here, and well, who knows, some grand masters have gone mad (although I'd guess some will dispute if there is clear link between madness and chess).. but delinquency? I'm not native English speaker so maybe I'm missing the full meaning of this word but translator tells me this word is clever way of saying 'crime', how on earth would chess lead to crime :) (other than, if played on paid time it is, well, crime of a sort, but same as browsing through social media).

It might be a reference to:

https://gizmodo.com/chess-was-once-deemed-a-menace-to-societ...

I think it's just a joke about how chess (generally considered somewhere between harmless to noble) was used as an example of contributing to negative behaviour by the poster they answered to.

Drugs lead to delinquency (crime) and madness. Depending on your view that is what some might say drugs do.

Since the OP said they had to block chess because of phone addiction, the joke is just replacing drug addiction with chess. Chess (drugs addiction) leads to delinquency and madness.

Create an extension that literally shutdowns your devices on your network. When you power them on. The extension will just resume and shutdown the device.

To disable the extension. Do some multivariable calculus and a bit of discrete mathematics to find the nth prime of some random hash the extension gives you.

If that doesn’t stop you from powering on your device until the next day. I don’t know what will.

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