Find a garden shop, a 2' square full-spectrum light from "The Indoor Sun Shop" was very important to my mental health when I lived in Seattle and cost a lot less than this. Especially after I added a mechanical timer so I could never be too depressed to turn it on in the morning.
None of these devices contain a portal to the internet. None of them contain apps that bombard you with notifications to try and get you to spend hours in them. None of these devices have been relentlessly A/B tested to maximize addictiveness.
To me that sounds like, "yes, it is a self-control and discipline issue — and the solution is forced abstention, à la mode d'Odysseus tying himself to the mast." (Although the old tactician did so to keep his ears unplugged and experience the sirens without the usual catastrophe.)
Except instead of the Sirens hanging out on a remote island, they hang out in your pocket and there's a huge corporate machine who is constantly trying to find new ways to get the Sirens in front of you because they make money off of every person the Sirens lure to their death.
Then curate those apps. My wife doesn’t run the social media apps on the phone, forcing her to make a conscious decision to pull out an iPad. The Apps I use are largely work, browser, email, Strava(/garmin/athlytic), maps, music and smart home control / network tools. It’s just about being conscious of what you put on it and what you use it for.
But out of the box all this shit is constantly begging you for your attention, they come with so many attention sinks installed that you have to find time and energy to sit down and curate, there's entire huge industries based on getting you to stare at your phone forever that you have to consciously spend time and effort to get rid of, versus "this ipod just plays music and cannot do anything else".
Your computer will come with a signed operating system. If you modify the operating system, your computer will not boot. If you try to install a different operating system, your computer will not boot.
> If you try to install a different operating system, your computer will not boot.
That does not follow. That would only very specifically happen when all of these are true:
1. Secure Boot cannot be disabled
2. You cannot provision your own Secure Boot keys
3. Your desired operating system is not signed by the computer's trusted Secure Boot keys
"Starting in a verified state and stay[ing] trusted over time" sounds more like using measured boot. Which is basically its own thing and most certainly does not preclude booting whatever OS you choose.
Although if your comment was meant in a cynical way rather than approaching things technically, than I don't think my reply helps much.
I've been using a sunshield I made out of some black mat board for at least a decade now. There's a few little magnets in it to cling to the magnets hidden in my Mac's lid. It's been on like 3-5 computers now, looking increasingly battered; whenever I upgrade I get to see if the magnets are in the same orientation or not.
Works great, I keep it in the padded pocket in my laptop bag next to the computer and the drawing tablet and take it out when I'm sitting in the park.
I basically winged it. One piece of mat board and a roll of black drafting tape gave me more than enough room to make a first attempt, figure out what I didn't like about it, and make a new one.
Hovering over the green dot in the title bar will bring up some simple window tiling options.
https://support.apple.com/guide/macbook-air/manage-windows-o... has more to say on the subject, more recent versions of the OS than I use have added more stuff in this vein, personally I just use Moom and have been for years.
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