Comment by wahlrus
2 hours ago
I'm glad I saw this post because I've been trying to find the tobiphone thing for ages. I remember seeing it in HN, but then I lost the page I couldn't remember what it was called, and it was oddly difficult to google (at least at the time).
One thing I've been thinking is that maybe a way to permanently lock my phone in greyscale mode would be sufficient to cure my phone addiction.
Gonna see if Claude has any solutions for me.
In case someone out there is looking, here's an untested recipe to lock your android in greyscale mode. It removes the menu option for changing out of greyscale (untested).
Set grayscale:
adb shell settings put secure accessibility_display_daltonizer 0 adb shell settings put secure accessibility_display_daltonizer_enabled 1
Also clear any shortcut that could toggle it:
adb shell settings put secure accessibility_shortcut_target_service "" adb shell settings put secure accessibility_button_targets ""
Disable the menu that could undo it:
adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.android.settings/.Settings\$AccessibilitySettingsActivity adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.android.settings/.Settings\$ColorAndMotionActivity
Will report back if I try it.