I WILL PAY FOR YOUR HELP!!! help me find a way to lock my mac computer after 10 o clock at night with a NO WORKOROUND. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE. I AM DESPERATE. I'VE HACKED EVERY TRAP THAT I'VE SET FOR MYSELF. PLEASE

imo there is no other way than: 1. you have to acknowledge that only you can fix yourself, not an app or solution 2. so talk to a therapist who can help you find the path you have to live in the moment and don't care about the future for a few months.

no

Bro even if you lock your Mac and it’s not at home or whatever. You can just Codex Remote. At this point I think you need to lock your brain.

i cannot codex remote because as i say in the video my phone can have screen time lock and it cannot be disabled nice shill tho :P

if i dont find a way i'll simply not have a computer at home, period. i'll rent an office and that's it. i can't anymore

hey @timcook during locked screen time you can just CHANGE THE CLOCK and not have a locked screen time anymore PROBABLY ALL THE KIDS HAVE FIGURED OUT THIS WORKAROUND DO YOU WANT THE KIDS TO SUFFER TIMOTHY

THIS

I'm not a psychologist so maybe this is nonsense but I think it's better to lean into the "addiction" rather than fight it, and if you think staying up late is harming you or your family, than I'd focus on making sure that harm doesn't happen and the amount of computer use should balance out naturally. As an example, if you make sure you always have dinner with your family, put kids to bed, do 30 minute exercise, etc, then who cares how long you stay on the computer?

how about i create a social app for sleepers and we put in money and if you dont sleep over 7 hours (whoop only) you dont get your money back... but some nights i'd pay to stay longer lmao

is there a legal-ish way to do this @polar_sh or @stripe

The solution is in your mind just close the damn thing

I KNOW

how much

1. put it on a table 2. don't approach the table

FUKC YOU MAXI

EZ I’ll ping your laptop everyday at 10pm, and everytime it works, I’ll send you a $1000 invoice

Give it to your wife. If you have zero self control.

why would i do that every night lol there's nothing in it for me

just solves your problem. if you can’t use it you can code till 4am. whats in it for you? Good sleep? Spending more time with the wife not stuck to a device? Other hobbies / things you wanna do? i didn’t realize i had to solve all the problems lol 😂

Fire off a localized EMP each night at 10pm

Screen Time? With a Screen Time passcode your wife generates, which she enters into your Mac, and she stores in her phone. Sadly you can reset your Screen Time password through your Apple account

not a tech solution, but talk to a therapist. chasing the symptoms must be exhausting?

You're an adult, either you want to stop at 10 or you don't Make up your mind and act on it

shoot your mac with a gun every night at 10pm. tomorrow morning go to the apple store, buy a new mac, ssh into a server, bam done. more seriously what about MDM that locks down your device enough so that you can't change the relevant settings; and the only person with access to the MDM after initial setup is someone who is not you and not bribable by you?

Apple Shortcuts?

Get a significant other :)

done

you laid out so many solutions to fix the wrong problem imo. the right problem to fix is being able to be physically be next to your Mac and phone at 10pm and don’t touch it regardless. if i’d be in your shoes i’d try to talk to a great therapist that understands founders and perhaps knows a thing or two about addictions you got this bro 💪💪💪

1. Even if you fall asleep at 3am, set your alarm for 6. 2. Get up. You'll want to die. Get up anyway. 3. Touch Grass. Get some sun. 4. Read, draw, do a puzzle, anything that doesn’t have a screen. Stop when it’s getting good. 5. Get back to work. 6. Pick (4) up again around 9-10pm. 7. Got to sleep. After 3 days, if you still up till 3am, i'll buy you a coffee.

dont wanna

I’ll come to your house at 10pm and I’ll take your PC you can come pick it up from my place at 7am Every day.

hired

I’m in Warsaw, see you tonight.

Every night. Physically break the computer. Then in the morning go to the store and buy a new one. 1. Wallet will hurt. 2. You will HATE going to buy new shit every morning. Once you have hurt your wallet enough. You will be fine i promise!

had the same problem and created this ytd, so just in time! screen time but for agent tokens. blocks your screen with random message when token usage hits limit. mac only, supports codex, claude, opencode.

figure out who you need to be that you don't need hacks & traps to act in alignment with your intentions

I was on the same page and tried every single thing you mentioned and more, but sadly I always found a way to break the locks. So I figured if I could just stack enough locks, even when they're breakable, it would add enough friction that I'd give up. This worked sometimes but when I was super low, friction didn't matter. I started working with LLMs (it was a pretty stupid one by current standards) to lock my system in a way that I can never figure it out myself, and not even know how its being run, so the process obfuscates itself in such a way that I cannot break it. Also it knows all my hacks so it must harden itself for all of them. The only option to open even in an emergency is that on request, it sends a message on telegram through a bot to my wife and if she responds with a certain message that only she knows, then it will unblock the system but with a delay of 1 hour. A hacked up version of this actually worked and helped me for many months. To be frank, since I started the ADHD medicines, the problem got solved enough that only 1-2 layers of blocks are now enough for me. But now the models are smart, I'm sure fable/Sol can cook something up for you in this vein.

damn they need to make for mac bro

I have an annoying idea. It would need MDM Deploy a payload that enforces the registration of a LaunchDaemon that locks you out. If you bypass the launchdaemon it respawns and fights back. Best I can come up with 😅 Time lock safe might be better

I'll come to your home every day at 10pm to collect it.

If you have a wife/girl, tell her that if she can catch you after 10pm, you will buy her [add super-expensive item she wants here]. This works well if she fancies shoes or expensive handbags.

you could build a defense in depth bedtime lockout around the MacBook where a Pi uses its own trusted clock instead of the Mac’s, so changing the Mac’s time would not bypass anything. at 10pm it could repeatedly relock the MacBook immediately after every successful login, tell the router to block the MacBook and any other enrolled devices, switch monitored smart outlets back off whenever they are turned on, and use a camera or presence sensor to keep enforcing the lockout until you actually leave the desk. a local Accessibility app could swallow keyboard, trackpad, mouse, and other peripheral input, while a launchd watchdog restarts the Mac agent if it gets killed. a NAS or home server could take over if the Pi disappears, and the Pi could use a hardware watchdog, UPS power, SSD storage, local policy cache, and independent time sync. the smart outlets could cut power to the charger, external monitors, dock, speakers, and desk lights, while a physical plug or adapter barrier, as you mentioned, makes reconnecting everything another annoying step. Screen Time or MDM would just be extra layers. escaping would mean playing whack a mole with several systems that keep re-enforcing the lockout, and nobody wants to do that when they’re tired, hopefully lol 👀 i know this is a lot lol but it sounds like you’ve tried a lot of good things to help, just not quite “yo dawg, we put blocks on your locks so you can sleep better”

Put it in a safe that only opens the next morning.

have an electrician install a capacitor that dumps 200 amps through your office circuit every night at 10 PM, then put a padlock on the breaker box and give the only key to your wife

i will try this lmao

unplug it and give it to ur wife

you make a contract with your wife that your computer is gone if use it once again. and if you do it again - the computer has to be gone. you dont have real consequences so thats the reason you keep on doing it.

i've tried relying on her but she has too much going on to be consistent with this :D i always find my way out

hmmm I dont know what you are looking for. maybe you are looking for the ultimate hack to find the willpower to overcome your habits. so my question is then...do you really want it or are you used betraying yourself. you gotta have no mercy with yourself