Ha ha - I knew I wanted to write on Stacker News about it, and honestly that helps!

But seriously - making the thing you want to avoid INCONVENIENT - that's how to do it. "This Is The Way" as DarthCoin would say.

But making the internet inconvenient is a little difficult, because it's getting more convenient all the time.

I wish there were tools like the phone launcher that I used (Slim Launcher) that could make it MUCH harder to access all but a few apps. But even with Slim Launcher, the regular phone apps are just a few clicks away, you just have to make those clicks.

Same with my laptop. Because of the snafu with my network settings getting overwritten, I had to just use airplane mode (which is just a mouse movement and 2 clicks to override).

That's why a little prep is needed. I'm going to figure out how to better restrict internet on my laptop. I'm planning on starting to use my graphene phone as my daily driver, and I think that has a lot more functionality in terms of separate profiles, to separate out different use cases.