Three years later… LOL

Your set up seems almost identical to mine. Block the world, then unblock as needed.

Not throwing shade or dog piling, but maybe next time use the spoiler for each section. Makes things a little more readable. Such as:

PiHole Regex deny list:

• (^|\.)snapchat\.com$
• (\.|^)tiktok\.com$
• (\.|^)tiktokcdn\.com$
• (\.|^)tiktokv\.com$
• (\.|^)threads\.net$
• (^|\.)apple\.com$
• (^|\.)icloud\.com$
• (^|\.)microsoft\.com$
• (^|\.)live\.com$
• (^|\.)office\.com$
• (^|\.)msn\.com$
• (^|\.)live\.net$
• (^|\.)windowsupdate\.com$
• (^|\.)skype\.com$
• (^|\.)bytedance\.com$
• (^|\.)microsoft365\.com$
• (^|\.)windows\.com$
• (^|\.)hp\.com$
• (^|\.)hpconnected\.com$
• (^|\.)hpsmart\.com$
• (^|\.)samsung\.com$
• (^|\.)canon\.com$
• (^|\.)canon\.ca$
• (^|\.)hp\.ca$
• (^|\.)photoshopessentials.com\.ca$
• (^|\.)adobepress\.com$
• (^|\.)bing\.com$
• (^|\.)azure\.net$
• (^|\.)msftconnecttest\.com$
• (^|\.)msftncsi\.com$
• (^|\.)msedge\.net$
• (^|\.)msauth\.com$
• (^|\.)onedrive\.com$
• (^|\.)sharepoint\.com$
• (^|\.)outlook\.com$
• (^|\.)yammer\.com$
• (^|\.)visualstudio\.com$
• (^|\.)lync\.com$
• (^|\.)windows\.net$
• (^|\.)office365\.com$
• (^|\.)microsoftstore\.com$
• (^|\.)microsoft\.net$
• (^|\.)skypeforbusiness\.com$
• (^|\.)azure\.com$
• (^|\.)wizzapp\.com$
• (^|\.)facebook\.com$
• (^|\.)fbcdn\.net$
• (^|\.)openai\.com$
• (^|\.)spotify\.com$
• (^|\.)scdn\.co$
• (^|\.)adobe\.com$
• (^|\.)lg\.com$
• (^|\.)roku\.com$
• (^|\.)roku\.tv$
• (^|\.)deviantart\.com$
• (^|\.)bethesda\.net$
• (^|\.)bsky\.app$
• (^|\.)bsky\.social$
• (^|\.)deepseek\.com$
• (^|\.)indeed\.[a-z\.]+$
• (^|\.)ziprecruiter\.[a-z\.]+$
• (^|\.)monster\.[a-z\.]+$
• (^|\.)glassdoor\.[a-z\.]+$
• (^|\.)threads\.[a-z\.]+$
• (^|\.)fbcdn\.[a-z\.]+$
• (^|\.)tiktokpangle-b\.[a-z\.]+$
• (^|\.)mellow\.[a-z\.]+$
• (^|\.)mellowtel\.[a-z\.]+$
• (^|\.)tiktokpangle\.[a-z\.]+$
• (^|\.)pangle\.[a-z\.]+$

It just saves a lot of scrolling and organizes the long lists into categories. Either way tho, lots of good info here. Thanks for sharing.

No way am I reading the booklet you posted.

I write my notes in markdown and documents in asciidoctor. But most markdown viewers suck, because they are webbrowsers.

Btw, could you please attach your hosts/blacklist as a file instead? It’s a bit inconvenient for mobile clients.

My idea for a long time has been to connect my laptop charger to a pedal-powered generator, so I can still stay online for as much time as I want, but I have to get some exercise (by pedalling the generator) to keep the computer running. Let’s say 30 minutes of pedalling for a few hours of connection time.

Here is how I did it https://git.benetou.fr/utopiah/online-hygiene/src/branch/master/index.js namely a local NodeJS Web server tracking my habits.

You can see the default configuration at https://git.benetou.fr/utopiah/online-hygiene/src/branch/master/index.js#L52-L65

{id:"twitter",pattern:/.*twitter\.com.*/,perHour:1,perDay:12},
{id:"proton",pattern:/.*proton\.me.*/,perHour:6,perDay:6*12},
{id:"yt",pattern:/https:\/\/www\.youtube\.com.*/,perHour:2,perDay:12}, // allow for redirection
{id:"yts",pattern:/https:\/\/youtube\.com.*/,perHour:2,perDay:12}, // allow for redirection, consider merged IDs
{id:"linkedin",pattern:/.*linkedin\.com.*/,perHour:1,perDay:12},
{id:"reddit",pattern:/.*reddit\.com.*/,perHour:3,perDay:12,redirect:'https://lemmy.world/'}, // redirection then enough to read private messages
// reconsider the tridactyl check for permanently open pages, e.g TabEnter rather than DocStart
{id:"element",pattern:/.*element\.io.*/,perHour:1,perDay:12},
{id:"discord",pattern:/.*discord\.com.*/,perHour:1,perDay:12},

In retrospect I should make available outside thus work on my mobile too when I’m not on my LAN, created https://git.benetou.fr/utopiah/online-hygiene/issues/3 accordingly.

Anyway what is fascinating IMHO in term of minimalism is that… I’m NOT actually using it anymore. Why? Well because the habits is now, roughly, ingrained. I don’t use it because it became mostly pointless.

That’s I’d argue what one should think of in terms of minimalism. Namely one provides a scaffolding that, yes, as others pointed out, might initially look like MORE work or tools than the typical situation. Yet, this only showcases how terrible the “normal” situation is. Once new habits are formed then remove the scaffolding and enjoy minimalism in a way most people expect, namely visibly less.

The problem though is that until that final step, it looks like more, BUT during that final step, it looks obvious to others, whereas they entirely miss the process that lead to it.

That’s the opposite of minimalism, I’d argue. I would consider minimalism as: having less, keeping/retaining less, and also, and in my opinion – more important, doing less.

I think you’re very well when it comes to privacy, but that’s not mininalism, finding private alternatives is different from digital minimalism.

To me, digital minimalism would be: Go from a note pad app to a physical note book.

While what you’re doing is going from a note pad app to a more privacy friendly digital app.

I agree with the digital minimalism tho, I think the less we depend on cloud the less we have to worry about.