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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.

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> 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.

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 :)

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.

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