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One of the main purposes of the 1h Safari app limit is to help jog myself into the habit of checking the TODO list before going online. (I believe that as long as I’m being purposeful and intentional, I can be online as long as I want.)

That hadn’t happened until today; mostly I had learned how resourceful I am at getting around browser bans with scrapers or Cocoa web views or running a browser from another machine via Xorg. But that’s OK. It doesn’t have to be impossibe, just inconvenient enough that it makes me think differently; and I need to make hay and use this brief window of time to relearn my morning habits before my id gets too comfy with these rerouted accesses to web.

What’s been happening is that I start Safari as per ushe*, run out the 1h app limit, and then if I need to pay a bill or check a rule on BGG or something I’ve been using the workarounds. Today I almost did the same but managed to stop myself! Mostly thanks to how I had to do something in the neighborhood that forced me to leave my apartment, that did more to shake me out of my routine than any app limit could.

So I’m hoping this is the day!

*: Luckily my mourning routine itself doesn’t involve Safari. Teletext news scraped over Gemini, RSS, Fedi mentions via Emacs, and email in Delta Chat. But often enough there are links (the RSS is especially dangerous here).
Or perhaps I should say unluckily since the entire purpose of this was to change my habit to check the lists before checking all of this other stuff! And I don’t wanna put app limits on email—what if Mulder & Scully finally gets back to me about that UFO?

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