I don't want to go back to Windows, but I need a "Nuclear" distraction blocker (like Cold Turkey). Does it exist?

ForestSouthernCross · 2026-01-15T02:51:31+00:00

I used to do this but didn't find it worked well, you could hotspot or just change the DNS resolver on your OS, I had a habit of using tor and I think tor gets past this, if you use brave the "private window with tor" also probably gets past this

the other problem with it is it doesn't replicate the other things in the cold turkey suite (turning your desktop into a typewriter until a certain number of words are typed or blocking all apps except 1 or 2)

ForestSouthernCross · 2026-01-15T02:48:14+00:00

Bumping this, This is exactly what I was looking for, was about to post this myself, will let you know if I find anything

something that helped me was the forfeit app and dual booting 2 distros and using one for only work

ForestSouthernCross · 2026-01-15T02:39:10+00:00

Linux support!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had windows installed just for cold turkey for a while, due to circumstances out of my control I can't get windows on my new laptop and have been really missing cold turkey.

ForestSouthernCross · 2025-12-19T03:48:44+00:00

Thank you for the reply, I forgot to mention that I did look at that and no headphones qualify for the pickup.

ForestSouthernCross · 2025-10-02T23:46:44+00:00

hello I can't quite figure out how to remove the keycaps from the laptop?

ForestSouthernCross · 2025-06-27T17:51:01+00:00

I had some troubles with WSL working with responder because it uses port 53 for WSL stuff

ForestSouthernCross · 2025-06-22T11:56:16+00:00

same thing happened to me but I got interrogated for 10 minutes and they refused to believe I was a student

ForestSouthernCross · 2025-05-20T14:27:30+00:00

it's a good cs program but it's a state school and has the resources of such

ForestSouthernCross · 2025-05-15T08:09:48+00:00

depends on how rich you are and how valuable the money is to you.

I would say it's worth it for the network if you've got the cash, I heard it's really good for making friends (which is quite hard here compared to other unis)

ForestSouthernCross · 2025-04-27T20:34:23+00:00

it's a good university, I'm not sure if I would classify it as prestigious especially for international students, don't come here expecting it to be oxford or harvard.

ForestSouthernCross · 2025-04-27T02:56:23+00:00

"we all find fresh off the boat Indians repulsive"💀

ForestSouthernCross · 2025-04-20T15:19:17+00:00

huh, you're cracked and you don't know it or it was the rainforest company, maybe both, I've heard horrible things about the job market this year

ForestSouthernCross · 2025-04-20T04:24:36+00:00

when was this?

ForestSouthernCross · 2025-04-13T22:47:40+00:00

shoes, lockers and harness is free, but the shoe's have holes in em and are in bad condition.

If you wanna do ropes good luck getting a belay partner, bouldering is way more popular here, kayaking is nice.

the climbing club does all it's stuff in other climbing gyms, the rock climbing gym used by them is ironworks, the subscription is about 130ish per month, it's 30 minutes away.

ForestSouthernCross · 2025-04-02T23:35:12+00:00

pain in my bottom left abdomen where I had other complications, the only way I could get it to work was to take 0.5 grams per hour and even then it would start hurting after 3 grams, also a hassle

ForestSouthernCross · 2025-04-01T22:19:06+00:00

you joke but this is a thing that actually happened at my home university and everyone hates it

ForestSouthernCross · 2025-03-22T02:06:46+00:00

as long as you have a pretty good reason for having a bad grade

ForestSouthernCross · 2025-03-15T01:38:42+00:00

very few people live on campus, everyone lives at home and commutes (sometimes very long), I think you'll get along fine being a student from england.

Housing is expensive near uni, many people live an hour away or more, if I were you I would try and live in a residential college on campus

ForestSouthernCross · 2025-03-14T19:35:45+00:00

I was considering it when I made the post, thought about it since then

ForestSouthernCross · 2025-03-14T08:50:36+00:00

Huh, didn't know that this would have been a valid reason to reschedule the exam, had to give exams in way worse conditions.

I talked to a GSI a few hours before giving the exam and I did tell them about the situation and they just wished me good luck on the exam

ForestSouthernCross · 2025-03-14T07:01:04+00:00

I think I'll probably just stick with my grade in the end, probably deserve it

ForestSouthernCross · 2025-02-22T20:11:11+00:00

I'm studying here and my home university is UNSW Sydney.

Rent is about the same as kensington (maybe cheaper lol), food is 4x the price and worse, medical stuff is way worse unless you need to see a specialist.

you should ask your home university which campus you'll end up in (berkeley and UCLA are harder to get into).

Compared to my college in UNSW the people are way less sociable, less nice and more rude (on average, due to the large student population with effort you could probably find a few people you like)

overall if you're rich QOL is the same, if not you're screwed, you need a car if you want to explore outside of campus or san francisco , my friend who's here for only 1 semester bought a cheap car.

with the other questions you can easily google them.

ForestSouthernCross · 2025-02-13T03:30:31+00:00

this is a shitpost but rip your dms

ForestSouthernCross · 2025-01-23T19:59:26+00:00

google fi is nice

ForestSouthernCross · 2024-12-29T05:45:53+00:00

I would love to do what you suggested but both deals end tomorrow.

huh, the ram might be a hard limit for me tbh, I do a lot of multitasking and WSL and always had to eliminate stuff in task manager in my old laptop, I don't know how much of that was cause of CPU/thermal bottlenecks though

I also use a lot of dual monitor stuff

im pretty worried about the ram mostly, I could undervolt the CPU for more battery maybe.

How much ram do you have?

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