"StayFocusd" Chrome Extension

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 8:28 am

This is great. You can select as many time-wasting websites that you know are sucking your life away but you can't stop, and then lets you set an aggregate total time per day you can be on any of them before being blocked for the rest of the day.

I instantly put yahoo.com, facebook.com, liveleak.com, rockpapershotgun.com and caltrops.com on it. So I get 10 minutes total per day to waste my life on that shit.

JC isn't on the list...

...yet.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 7:11 pm

How is search enging like Yahoo sucking your time away?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Thu Mar 05, 2015 8:06 pm

Yahoo is a "search engine".

That's what you're on this website, saying to all of the people reading.

You're putting that out there. It's the internet, you know. There's no "erase" button.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 3:59 am

I use Google. I use it to navigate to sites and look stuff up. How does doing that use up too much of your time?

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 4:16 am

Yahoo is loaded with click bait. Now I see the problem

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 6:30 am

Alright, I'm adding JC to the list, but bumped the time up to 30 minutes per day. Remember, that's total, so that includes now, this, Facebook, youtube, etc, etc.

My time here is precious, people.

Use it wisely.

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 9:55 am

pinback wrote:Yahoo is a "search engine".

While Yahoo does include a search engine, that's not what he said.

You're putting that out there. It's the internet, you know. There's no "erase" button.

Some stuff does get forgotten if not indexed, but he didn't say that. He questioned use of a "search enging" like Yahoo. Therefore he said yahoo is a "search enging" not a "search engine."

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 11:53 am

Well, it's a great extension, but I uninstalled it.

LOCK THREAD PLZ

BEST OF PLZ

RetroRomper · Post by **RetroRomper** » Mon Apr 20, 2015 5:49 pm

I installed StayFocusd with the hope that it would let me essentially block sites (as opposed to editing a host file) and... Yes! It does this!

How does it work? Set the time allowed per day to 1 minute.

I've already started to break out of my muscle memory in regards to having a free moment, with the downside of not actually knowing what to do with all of my free time.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 7:53 am

pinback wrote:Alright, I'm adding JC to the list, but bumped the time up to 30 minutes per day. Remember, that's total, so that includes now, this, Facebook, youtube, etc, etc.

My time here is precious, people.

Use it wisely.

What the fuck are you doing? I need you here! I need you on this wall!

This is the last place you need to do that shit to. Come on, man.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 7:54 am

RetroRomper wrote:I installed StayFocusd with the hope that it would let me essentially block sites (as opposed to editing a host file) and... Yes! It does this!

How does it work? Set the time allowed per day to 1 minute.

I've already started to break out of my muscle memory in regards to having a free moment, with the downside of not actually knowing what to do with all of my free time.

This has to be an all-time low for me as a SysOp.

"I keep going to your site too much, so I installed an extension to effectively block it."

I need you here. I need you ALL HERE. Of all the fourteen quintillion sites in the world, this one I'm asking you not to block. Post something! Post anything!

RetroRomper · Post by **RetroRomper** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 4:58 pm

Jolt Country will never be blocked, limited, throttled, etc.

This is just for Reddit and other sites that are designed around supplying meaningless streams of information to ignite the part that makes me feel validated.

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Tue Apr 21, 2015 7:30 pm

Do they offer this plug-in for tubs of ice cream?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Apr 22, 2015 10:13 am

You've destroyed a person today. You have all destroyed me and everything I stood for.

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Thu Apr 23, 2015 10:57 am

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:You've destroyed a person today. You have all destroyed me and everything I stood for.

It took you this long to discover you've been destroyed? I knew that, years ago. Besides, what does it mean to you to be "destroyed"? Ruined, reduced to worthlessness, having no value, demolished and pulverized, what?

"It took you this long to figure that out? You're not as bright as I thought you were."
- Supervisor 246

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Mon Nov 02, 2015 6:05 pm

I deleted my Facebook account this weekend. I just got sick of seeing stupid e-card slogans. Like:

"My wine diet isn't working.
So far I've only lost two weeks."

Too many pictures of food and people I don't know smiling at me over bottles of beer. And right wing propaganda.

In fact, there's nothing there for me that I can't get here and on TGC.

THE
WONT MISS IT
AARDVARK

Donald Ebinsen · Post by **Donald Ebinsen** » Mon Nov 02, 2015 6:57 pm

AArdvark wrote:"My wine diet isn't working.
So far I've only lost two weeks."

THE
WONT MISS IT
AARDVARK

I recommend the "eat too much only when totally sloshed" diet. If you can't remember it (because you passed out) then it didn't happen!

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Mon Nov 02, 2015 7:51 pm

AArdvark wrote:In fact, there's nothing there for me that I can't get here and on TGC.

I hate Facebook, but there are so many people now that use it as their sole means of communication that I can't part with it. That being said, I am looking forward to seeing more of your shiny face both here and over at the 'chamber!

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 3:47 pm

I like posting here and there because entire paragraphs can be written. I noticed on FB that if anybody posted something that was more than two sentences long I hesitated to read it at first. It started to bug me after a while because I used to be a voracious reader. Back when people went to where the books were, instead of the other way around, I would check out dozens of books a month. Dozens. Now if I read one new book a year it's a lot. I keep reading all my old stuff over and over. That's another thing that bugs me, the lack of new stuff to read. I totally blame social media for stuffing information at me 24/7. It's keeping me from discovering new authors. But no more, I tell you. No more.

THE
BRAVE NEW
AARDVARK

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Nov 06, 2015 8:15 pm

I think we computer guys had forums pretty well figured out by the time Facebook came along.

They started doing this awful, awful thing where if you wrote too much in a reply they'd put ellipses up and have a link that people would have to click to read.

Nope. Nooooooooope. That's when Facebook became a piece of shit site. I mean, it always existed to serve Facebook and not its users, but still.

THEN they did a thing where they hid replies. Replies! You'll see "1 reply. Click to read it." They put that there instead of putting the reply there. Amazing.

I hate it too but there's people there whom I don't catch up with in any other way. (Fantasy football was great at that until all my friends left my league.)

But I've got a theory going that says that everything our generation figured out will one day be broken in stupidity on the web.