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I also considered this in the past but sometimes, I slip into procrastination mode unintentionally and might check my bank account (or pornhub) once in a while. So thinking my video is uploaded to somebody else's computer gives me the shivers.

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Have a user account just for streaming. Then you can block any sites that you don't want shown.

It seems the point of doing this is it stops you procrastinating, because you're pretending to be a hot shot twitch streamer. If it were a live stream, you wouldn't start watching porn, you'd stay focused.

Basically the productivity tip is to pretend you're already productive.

Fair point. But sometimes the pretending part fades away when I get to the "flow". When that happens, I usually forget OBS was even running way after the task was done. If it were Twitch stream, I imagine somebody from the chat window would remind me to put my d* away

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