I wanna have a better relationship with my computer

I end up feeling this way often. But, I lose too much time to just surfing, and I want to figure out how to improve my relationship to it. There are things I want to do: engage more with town, do my necessary computer work, and work on fun projects. I'm currently reading Crafting Interpreters; I'm into chapter 5 right now, but I'm struggling to push myself to work on it more than even once a week.There are things I don't want to do: spend so much time watching videos or scrolling, especially when I'm in bed.

One thought I've had: I have a small desktop, I could set that up as my main computer, and then put my laptop somewhere I can't get at it easily. My practice space for music, for example, a place that would require a 45-min round-trip to pick it up from. Then, I physically can't bring my computer into bed with me. But, this brings up a bunch of complexity. How do I keep the computers in sync, especially since the desktop only has a 128 GB disk; I physically can't store everything from my laptop on it. And disk is expensive all of a sudden. It's a solvable problem, but it's so much more convenient to just have a single computer that does everything. I wonder if there's another way to restrict usage at home.

Some of it's just habit, too. but I've proven time and again that "just be disciplined" isn't a sustainable approach for me. I need something environmental to change my habits.

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