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Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot

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370 points remuskaos | 12 comments | 22 Jun 25 20:26 UTC | HN request time: 1.241s | source | bottom
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AdieuToLogic ◴[23 Jun 25 02:48 UTC] No.44352075[source]▶
Here is a gradated set of exercises to determine one's phone addiction, if any, in increasing levels of potential difficulty.

  1 - on an off day, with no reason to require phone use,
    put your phone in a dresser drawer for the day and
    do not use or look at it.

  2 - on an off day, with no reason to require phone use,
    put your phone in a dresser drawer for the day and
    leave your residence for at least one hour.

  3 - leave your phone at home when either meeting friends,
    getting lunch, or going to the grocery store.

  4 - leave your phone at home when going into the office
    for one day.

  5 - leave your phone in a dresser drawer for an entire
    weekend.

  6 - leave your phone at home when traveling for more
    than a day (vacation, visiting family, etc.).
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1. CGMthrowaway ◴[23 Jun 25 04:26 UTC] No.44352441[source]▶
How does this work when you need a phone for 2fa?
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2. AdieuToLogic ◴[23 Jun 25 04:35 UTC] No.44352472[source]▶
> How does this work when you need a phone for 2fa?

See the stipulation of:

  on an off day, with no reason to require phone use
If you "need a phone for 2fa" then that qualifies as a "reason to require phone use."
3. AdieuToLogic ◴[23 Jun 25 05:14 UTC] No.44352630[source]▶
> How does this work when you need a phone for 2fa?

Just out of curiosity, suppose you are not on-call for work and it is an observed holiday. Do you foresee the need for two factor authentication for non-work activities?

In other words, is 2fa a requirement for daily life?

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4. eCa ◴[23 Jun 25 06:51 UTC] No.44353124[source]▶
One example would be Github for personal projects. There are several other use cases where the phone is a factor for logging into services.
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5. em500 ◴[23 Jun 25 07:15 UTC] No.44353252{3}[source]▶
Git pull a day before, git push a day later? Have we forgotten to do anything without a persistent internet connection 24/7? Or why we'd use a distributed version control system in the first place.
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6. eCa ◴[23 Jun 25 08:14 UTC] No.44353531{4}[source]▶
It was an example of a use case familiar to many here. Some people use Github for more than just git.
7. LeafItAlone ◴[23 Jun 25 13:09 UTC] No.44355463[source]▶
>In other words, is 2fa a requirement for daily life?

I never stay logged into accounts in browsers on my personal devices. And work requires daily auto. So in general if I need to do anything with any accounts, I need 2fa access. And for the phone apps I do stay logged in to, well, they are on my phone.

8. timerol ◴[23 Jun 25 15:14 UTC] No.44356643[source]▶
Level 4 is going into the office for a day, so anyone requiring 2fa at work cannot pass that point
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9. rrr_oh_man ◴[23 Jun 25 15:42 UTC] No.44356910[source]▶
1Password?
10. ecb_penguin ◴[23 Jun 25 16:19 UTC] No.44357332{3}[source]▶
There's no need to overcomplicate a silly exercise with rigid rules.

Focus on the intent of the exercise. If you really mentally cannot get past 2FA, then get a hardware token, or a TOTP client on your desktop. Lots of solutions if this is really the hangup.

11. ecb_penguin ◴[23 Jun 25 16:21 UTC] No.44357351[source]▶
You work around it

1. Get a hardware token

2. Install a TOTP desktop client

3. Only use the phone for 2FA

4. You understand the spirit of the exercise and don't get bogged down by silly rules.

12. 0x457 ◴[23 Jun 25 17:27 UTC] No.44358019{4}[source]▶
We also conditioned to make small feature branches. Even my hobby projects force me to go through PR process.