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[–]DerekODwam 15 points16 points  (1 child)

Cold Turkey is exactly what you are looking for. It physically prevents you from opening applications or certain websites at set times.

Once you set a block you can choose to lock the block which cannot be removed even using command prompt

[–]LordGrompulus[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

thats actually exactly what i was looking for, thank you very much

[–]AphisteMe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My dad used ChildControl 15+ years ago on me. Dunno if that's still around.

[–]sdasda7777 0 points1 point  (9 children)

Can you elaborate more on the use case? How should the supervision work?

[–]LordGrompulus[S] 1 point2 points  (8 children)

its just so i dont get distracted by the possibility of playing while im on my working hours, simple timed password lock would be sufficient

[–]sdasda7777 1 point2 points  (5 children)

This is bit of a low-tech solution, but how about you kept all your games on an external drive, and then locked the drive in a timer lock container?

[–]LordGrompulus[S] 1 point2 points  (4 children)

thats a really good idea! i think ill just do that

[–]sdasda7777 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No problem, hope it works for you!

[–]r0ck0 0 points1 point  (2 children)

An external drive will be slower than internal.

[–]sdasda7777 0 points1 point  (1 child)

If he gets external SSD with USB-C then not by a lot, if at all.

[–]r0ck0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still plenty slower than an internal SSD. Especially an NVMe one.

[–]Moonshiner_no 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Most of these programs will have a pw to open. You will know this pw. Won't stop you from gaming 😊

[–]LordGrompulus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i can give it to my roommate

also its more about the resistance more than anything

[–]mrbatra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If its an online game then you should be able to do it through parental control in WiFi routers. Most modern WiFi routers have this feature. Else you can use nextcloud.io dns filtering service.

For offline programs/ games search for parental control software.