DJDarren

Weekend At Bernie’s.

Rats are ace.

As I type this, there’s one scuttling about in his cage next to me. It pains me that he’s alone, but his brothers have all passed away now, and we aren’t planning on getting any more once Wilbur’s shuffled along. He’s getting old now, so it wouldn’t be fair to rehome him. So he’s a grumpy old bachelor boy who still loves his Cheerios and stealing my toast in the morning.

I have a Mac mini at work because I don’t need versatility there. I sit at my desk, I do work.

At home though, I’m all about laptops. Currently on my 4th MacBook since 2007. I can use it on my lap, like I currently am, or I can hook it up to a monitor to do the same stuff, but big. Either way, it’s the same OS (pretty much) so I get the same stuff done on both.

That makes sense to me. I remember hearing complicated on which music station the hotel had on in the bar when I was in Ibiza for a week back in 2002. Adele’s first album came out in 2008.

Gary Numan is two weeks older than Gary Oldman.

I have a really nice pair of wired Sonys (MDR-7506) that I modded with a 3.5mm jack, and bought a small BT receiver that’s strapped to the headband. So I now have the best of both worlds.

Before any of the iOS apps were worth a damn, I decided to try and figure out how to make an app myself. I was going to call it Ace, and hope that at least someone knew why.

I didn’t get very far though, because I’ve literally never made an app before.

It does work, and I always feel like a lunatic if I do it.

Got a phone call from my Dad while I was working aboard Queen Mary 2 asking if I was alright. Confused me, because yeah, of course I was. He said something about an earthquake, so I put the news on the TV.

Turns out there’d been an earthquake which had caused the tsunami in Japan. We were off the coast of Japan. The wave went right under us, and I had no idea.

Mad.

If ebooks are acceptable to you, then Standard Ebooks is the shit. Proper classics, formatted in a nice way, ready to drop onto whatever reading device you have.

It’s not irrational when almost every piece of media we see is somehow designed to make us want The New Things. Companies spend a lot of money working out how to convince us that we’re dissatisfied with what we have.

Also, it’s kind of sensible to upgrade after three years, when the device you have is still feasibly worth something on the second hand market.

There is some good advice in this thread, but if you do have ADHD, then the advice is only as good as your ability to carry it out, and saying “just do the thing” will only end up demoralising you.

From my perspective (42, diagnosed with ADHD four years ago), it’s been damn near impossible for me to noticeably improve myself. It’s only when I reflect on my progress that I begin to notice positive changes.

Ultimately, it’s about training your perspective on a task. Are you failing to do things, or are you choosing to prioritise other tasks instead. Do those other tasks have positive outcomes (however tenuous they may be)? If this is the case, then you could work on choosing to prioritise the tasks that are expected of you.

In terms of my working day, my job is an issue for me, as it doesn’t really have a set form, and is almost entirely self-led. If I don’t do what’s expected of me, no one really notices, and that’s actually a problem for me, because left to my own devices I’ll gladly spend all day fucking about online, then feel like shit because I’ve not been productive*. So I’ve learned to tackle this by physically writing myself a To Do list first thing in the morning, that I then input into a daily timetable spreadsheet. Then I use an app called Cold Turkey to block access to websites of my choosing for a period of time. Only then am I able to focus on the tasks at hand.

In time, your brain will (hopefully) begin to mould itself around a different way of being, and while it will not likely become second nature to you, it will become easier to recognise when your distraction has taken control.

*of course, almost all of the problems we face are as a result of being forced to exist in a capitalist society, where we’re all trained to assign our personal worth to the worth of the work we produce. If we neurodivergents were able to live outside that paradigm, we’d be fine.

Trouble is, many of the techniques here are easy. But if you have ADHD, sticking to them is damn near impossible.

Because the megacorps who make the phones like money and that’s how they get it.

From an individual perspective, unless you can afford it and like having the new phones, there’s basically no point in upgrading every year.

500? Thems are rookie numbers, kiddo.

I hate exercise for the sake of it. I’d gladly ride my bike all day, but put me on an exercise bike for ten minutes and I’m bored out of my skull.

Unrelated: I’m really fat.

The Soros cheques certainly come in handy.

Personally, I’m continuing my efforts to not be a racist piece of shit.

To make matters worse, I’m on Beehaw, which has defederated from Lemmy.world, so I can’t see the politics community on there even if I wanted to.

It’s one thing having different instances, but quite another when users on one instance can’t see the communities of another.

On the other hand, having two different communities does mean that people in my situation could still participate on one of those.

When I was 10 I sharted in the shower when I was on a family holiday. I did what anyone would do; pushed it down the drain hole and never mentioned it to anyone until now.