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  • Yeah, I’ve always thought it could be a good retort when someone is dissatisfied with the amount of resources you’ve already put towards some thing.

    “Wow, thanks for getting me only 20 bucks in my birthday card”

    “you’re only volunteering for a day? They are volunteering for at least three”

    “Gross, you’re got me a used laptop?”












  • the only reason ADHDers struggle is because society is set up wrong, but I don’t think that’s true, at least for me.

    I’d say you’re exceptional in that you’re very clear on your least favorite parts of ADHD and recognize that society can’t do much to help.

    For me, the H is particularly problematic as an office worker. And even as a uni student, I thought it was insane how many of my classmates were capable of just… spending all day in their rooms. Studying or gaming or whatever. Growing up, I always had eager companions for shaking off the restlessness and it never occurred to me that I was unusual.

    My recurring thought was “how are people expected to do this?” Which I think falls in line with the societal blame angle.

    Being unable to remember anything, unable to self-start, and hypersensitive to rejection would be massive problems in any world.

    But you pointed out some very real issues I have with myself and have my own coping mechanisms for. Going this route, I think the “wired different” interpretation pointed out by others makes the most sense.

    Generally, I don’t have an issue with it. “Ill” implies that I’ve ever had a “healthy” state and that I want to get back there. And that’s just not true.





  • I’m most excited about the “barely worth mentioning” updates to Safari, Maps, Airpods, and autocorrect lol.

    Folks on Mastodon were bashing the “Web Apps” conversation but… I would really prefer to install less glorified-site-wrappers on my stuff, thanks. Like they basically knocked out 2 of the 3 reasons I opted for Edge over Safari:

    • Install sites like Slack, Discord, YoutubeMusic as apps rather than using an electron wrapper
    • Work vs Personal profiles w/ history and extensions
    • Optimized memory usage & Automatic tab “sleeping”

    As for Maps: I like Siri’s voice, and the “turn left but stay in the second from left lane to do it” has saved me from road rage a number of times. It’s nicely integrated to Contacts, so I just say “Navigate to Mom/Sister/SO” early in the drive. But I don’t use it because of the absurd amount of data usage the app uses (I’m on a limited prepaid plan). So this is basically all I’ve been waiting for to drop my GMaps usage down to just “what’s good around here?” type usage.

    Airpods’ adaptive usage seems perfect for the way I think airpods are best used — while walking around. If I’m camping out at a cafe or something, I pull out the full sized headphones. But if I’m walking or running, I bring out the airpods. Usually in transparency mode, toggling it off if things get too loud to hear. Looking forward to trying the new feature.

    And autocorrect has been getting worse — significantly so. Whatever it is they do, I hope it works :)


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    1 year ago

    That’s fair enough. Have seen the same behavior on tumblr and the like.

    I’ve found myself wondering if folks aren’t slapping on innappropriate tags or none at all, losing out on content?

    I suppose I also never gave this approach an honest shot. Thinking I’ll try this. Thanks!