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Yeah, whatever roadblocks are set up can easily be dismantled using the same privs.
Only way to achieve this goal is to either hand the keys to someone else or to lock yourself out.
Making it a hassle to circumvent the roadblocks can help make the undesired behavior less attractive to you in the moment or stop unconscious behavior.
For example, I sometimes open lemmy just with my muscle memory when I'm bored without even thinking about it, even though I know I've scrolled through pretty much all the current content I get in my feed already.
Moving the app icon around stops me from opening lemmy without actively thinking about it and therefore adds a (admittedly small) barrier to my bad behavior.
Adding a long and complex password that I would have to enter manually, as someone in the comments recommend, would probably make me rethink my actions even more. Do I really want to get out the password and be annoyed by having to type it out just to do this?