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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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    1. Wrong spectrum disorder.
    2. As someone with ADHD I wish I could get by without Adderall or similar stimulant. Even with stimulants, life is a fucking challenge. Struggling to listen to conversations that are important to you to only wind up thinking about another task or interest and getting lost in thought.

    Hell, just yesterday I walked inside while gardening to grab some tools from a toolbag that was left inside, while repeatedly saying out loud what I was doing. Got to the bag, and completely forgot why I was inside even though I had said why 3 seconds before and had to close my eyes and focus for 10 seconds before it came back to me. And this is a regular occurance that happens a dozen times or more a day WITH MEDICATION.

    The side effects of aderrall aren’t the most pleasant either. But the benefits of having some level of control of my brain, reducing the number of times thoughts drift away, and much much more, I take them. And I am somebody with mild-moderate ADHD issues.





  • I’m glad I tried.

    But I’m also doing so much better now and a 15mg Adderall xr does has been working great for 2 years now. I also found a job that follows my passions and I’ve been able to channel the hyper focus and drive to build and keep a schedule for work. The last step is to reintegrate my fitness hobby (cycling) back into my life and I’ll be back to where I was before some asshole manager from my previous job caused a mild panic attack in me and things broke down.




  • They keep getting stalled because they proposed bills to remain on DST instead of not participating. To remain on DST requires US Congressional approval and the bills were ignored and were never brought up to vote.

    Washington is looking at putting forth another bill to stop participating in DST altogether since that only needs to pass the state legislators and Governor sign-off.

    I’d prefer to stay on DST permanently, especially on the summer solstice where the sun sets super late and you can enjoy summer. In the end, I just want to stop dealing with the fuckery of DST.





  • Years ago Firefox had a massive memory leak that would wind up crashing FX randomly or just crushing your system resources. The bug persisted for years. and I swirched to Chrome to get away from that poor experience. A few years back, a random community contributer, that was also fed up, dug in and fixed several issues responsible for the leaks. I remeber thinking that I should give FX a go again, but didn’t until relatively recently.


  • I switched on my personal devices (need to use chrome for gsuite integrations at work).

    On desktop, it’s great and I’m loving it. And kicking myself for not switching back sooner after the massive-years-long-memory-leak was finally fixed a few years back

    On mobile, it’s mostly great. The privacy focus, ad block support, and plug-in support is a plus. But I realllly want the tab groups that mobile Chrome introduced a while back. That had such a great mobile UX that I’ve found myself still loading up chrome now and then when I find myself wanting that UX. I looked to see if there were plugins that could make that possible, but was disappointed to see none and let down that it seems impossible with the current tab implementation.


  • Feedback:

    Format your README better. And don’t be a condescending jerk and say “wikipedia is your friend”. If you can’t explain what you’re doing here we’re going to question your solution. You don’t have to write a white paper, but enough to show you actually understand the concept enough to explain it in brief then you provide links to detailed refefences.

    Comment your code. Meaningful names are great, but you should be explaining complex concepts and algorithms within your code. This provides clear intent to people using and maintaining your code if implemented directly.


  • What I’d really love to see more of is tech co-ops and unions.

    With the current wave of corporate tech layoffs, I’m seriously surprised I’m not seeing more movement on the tech unions. Not so surprised I’m not seeing many co-ops since that business model is rarely used, but really should be invested into by more smaller tech shops. Additionally, unless you’re an AI startup or some other buzz-tech startup trying to grift the trend wave, the investor money has mostly dried up outside of a few people that have actual knowledge in the space and understand that there needs to be more diversity in the tech space or else innovation stifles.



  • Windows 10 & 11comes pre-packaged with generic wifi and bluetooth drivers that work with the vast majority of the common chipsets.

    If a device has forgotten which driver it has, re-aasining the generic driver should be enough to get you operational enough to go grab any advanced drivers for extended device functionality.

    Also, as an FYI, I had a fleet (~150) of decommissioned machines (probabaly 20-30 different model over 5 makes) I was converting into a Linux(Deb) distrubuted node automation farm. The amount of times I had to go find drivers (network interfaces were the cost common) that supported the hardware that Linux didn’t have default driver support for was prevelant. That was a very long 2 weeks.