I was basically forced to upgrade to the 9 pro from the 8 when I dropped my phone about 25". I could either pay to have the shattered screen replaced or pay for a 9 pro with the discount. I immediate realized just how invasive Gemini had gotten and I miss my 8 every day. The 7 was too big for me, but it was a solid phone.
Nope. It’s not. I had to follow multiple guides and use three different utilities including power shell, group policy editor, and regedit, and even then I didn’t get rid of everything until I got tired of them fucking with shit and used shutup10++ to just toggle everything off. And I’m lucky enough to only have windows on my work computer at this point and to have admin rights to that computer. This shit is exhausting. Every update breaks something new and brings back shit I have been trying to nuke from orbit.
I feel this way about a lot of stuff including fail compilation videos. I don’t know why they exist and I’m glad I don’t use social media anymore because they’re so prevalent. I don’t want to watch someone get seriously injured or die. No thanks.
I use Bazzite. I like it a lot.
Shock! No, but seriously. This is not a surprise.
Nah. Regular people. I am not an influencer and I got one of these emails. But I’m also not going to test their hardware for them.
I like pixel phones but I actually really really hate Gemini and I’m not buying the pixel 10. I think they’re also attempting to get people who bought their phones previously but haven’t bought one in awhile to use more of their stuff.
Can you tell us about your symptoms?
Are you officially diagnosed?
Do you live in a place with protections for persons with a Neurodivergent Disability?
Does your employer know you have ADHD, and, if so, are there any accomodations they can provide for you that would help?
Have you tried caffeine or energy drinks?
“The fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. This is called " Ego Involvement” - when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. It’s not because you don’t care, or are lazy, but because you care too much.
To overhaul this thought process and it’s resultant consequences on your life, it’s important to recognize that this is what’s happening, and to detach your self worth from everyday tasks/work that needs to be done.
This is part of the reason that doing for others when you can’t do for yourself works.
It also sort of explains why body doubling works for some. It adds an outside pressure we care more about, and demotes the self worth aspect we place on whatever task needs to be done.
This does not mean that you’ll be able to use the coping mechanisms of others to achieve your goal though, sometimes getting proper medical care and mental health care is what allows you to develope coping mechanisms that work for you.
Annoyance at others motivates me. If I put a dish in the sink? That’s fine. The only person I can be mad at is me and my self worth is attached to it, but that’s a problem for later me. If my husband puts a plate in the sink? I’m annoyed, both at him and at the fact that there’s clutter and I’m more motivated to deal with it before it becomes a stack of plates etc.
This is a coping mechanism I have that doesn’t necessarily work for other people. Maybe they don’t live with someone else. Maybe they have a different dynamic and relationship with the people they do live with. But it works for us.
Another of my coping mechanisms is lists, and I have lists for everything. But I separate the lists into categories. This helps me break things down so I don’t become overwhelmed.
I know for a fact that this absolutely does not work for a lot of people I have known with ADHD.
As I have gotten older I have cared less and less about what people think. Somehow this includes myself. Who am I? Why should my thoughts and feelings be any more or less valid than some random person on the street who I not only wouldn’t take advice from, but also might tell where to stick it if I felt judged by them in specific circumstances?
That’s not really something that you can implement necessarily using strategy. And it’s probably not something that happens to everyone, certainly not to the same degree.
Sometimes for me it’s as simple as recognizing that I do need help and then the problem becomes asking for help or being honest about needing it. I loathe asking for help. It feels like failure to me. In the right circumstances that’s enough to motivate me to do it myself. The anxiety of having to ask for help is worse than the lost feeling of missing executive function.
I don’t know how to explain how to do that for another person. I spent 40 years developing a haphazard and cobbled together house of random coping mechanisms that work for me and I’m not sure how another person would implement them.
But I will say that what you describe does sound like a disorder with your executive function and not laziness. And I will say that ADHD is not the only Neurodivergent condition that has executive dysfunction.
Because that is the case it may be beneficial to you to get a second opinion not just about the ADHD but about just having executive dysfunction and the likely cause given your medical and psychological background.
“VoLTE (Voice over LTE) is the feature that routes voice calls over a 4G LTE connection, a crucial function now that carriers worldwide are phasing out their 2G and 3G networks. Without it, you might not be able to make phone calls at all on many modern networks. Similarly, VoWiFi (Voice over WiFi) handles Wi-Fi calling, routing calls over a Wi-Fi network instead of cellular — a handy feature when you’re in a building with poor signal.”
Basically, some countries don’t have access to VoLTE or VoWIFI.
Since they don’t have official access they were using this to gain access (in places where pixel phones aren’t on the market/not sold in that country for instance).
If VoWIFi/wifi calling wasn’t available where I live I wouldn’t be able to use my cell phone to make and receive calls and texts while at home. My place is a dead zone.
Some places also have spotty 5G service. So VoLTE would work better in those areas too.
Mostly because I don’t like gaming on windows and I want things to work without having to tweak every single security feature and all the junk I turned off every single time there’s an update. I’m also tired of MS breaking things with updates and generally using the public as free beta testers to the detriment of their products.
Also, fuck 365.
Not anymore.
Nope. This was a rumor and the article title is misleading. Valve blocked NSFW updates of games that were originally labeled as SFW and then the dev tried to update with NSFW game elements.
I don’t work in a programming field but this explains a lot about why I went through and redesigned the intake forms at my old job to be mostly check boxes, and why I hate the way accessory instructions are laid out. If it has no words but just pictures? No thanks. If it has all words and no pictures? No thanks. If it doesn’t lay out the installation in a way that makes step by step sense from start to finish? No thanks. Double back to this step or that step? Nah. I’m good.
There’s an image of a guy with a cutaway into his brain and his brain is just a ball of different highways with cars zooming along at all different speeds in all different directions. I can’t find this image right now but that’s it. That’s my ADHD brain. And there’s music playing.
The image below is the closest I could find.
Nah. They literally billed the tablets to have features/functionality that didn’t work or wasn’t implemented not just at launch but a full year after the fact. I love tablets. Had both versions of the nexus 7.
But they keep trying to make tablets be other things instead of just making a tablet that’s useful for tablet things.
I loved reading on my nexus 7. The pixel tablet is a bit big for that. I like using it to watch movies or even just videos. Its pretty okay for that.
But all the effort went into smart features that would have been useful if they worked. But they didn’t work and google doesn’t seem to have even made strides to make them work. Finger print reader? Only useable with the primary account holder (so if you share this tablet the person or people you share it with can’t use the finger print reader to unlock their profile). Smart home features that were half broken because it doesn’t know whether it wants to use Gemini or google assistant. Smart home hub features that their own smart home hub from a previous generation far outpaces.
Google can’t just make a tablet and let it be a tablet and they aren’t trying to make a tablet that has feature parity with what IOS provides. I have never personally owned an iOS device but the ones I have used have apps that aren’t just scaled up phone apps.
Rofl. If you expecting anything else except this from Trump, I’ve got some public landmarks for sale.
I owned (sold it back to bestbuy) the pixel tablet. It didn’t do half the stuff it was supposed to be able to do (mostly to do with smart home integration, and multi user integration), and I got tired of trying to make it work for my family so I sold it back to bestbuy for store credit.
I read an article the other day about the woman who wrote that tell all book about Meta. Supposedly (according to the article) she faces a $50K fine every time she breaks the contract she agreed to when departing the company by defaming them. But she has not ever been charged that fine. But she is facing bankruptcy.
That’s an article that’s so poorly written that it literally doesn’t seem to have warranted any comment except mine which says literally “I do not understand the facts presented in this article and how they correlate”. Last I checked there were no other comments.
We see articles like this all the time.
Are there any updates for the vehicle’s unfortunately system?
Are there any updates for your phone?
Is your phone hooked up to Android Auto via physical cable or via Bluetooth?
Are there any settings on the vehicles infotainment system you can set or change?
Are you using a voice assistant like Gemini? If so, have you trained a voice model?