Meds have curbed lots of my ADHD life issues, I feel that post diagnosis and taking kiddie speed most days has made a massive improvement to my quality of life.

Having motivation to complete some basic life admin tasks or take on and complete projects has been such a massive improvement for me.

Understanding that getting a diagnosis in Australia took me over a year, and the process was costly. I’m sure in other areas of the globe it’s a similar process, and it felt to me like it’s not streamlined for someone with such a disability but for me the outcome is well worth the battle.

Looking back to who I was then and now, meds have opened so many doors and opportunities for me.

That’s an interesting way of looking at interactions with people.

The fact that we can be so detached and yet so involved, I don’t feel the guilt is justified.

Were not cut of the same cloth as lots of folks, and in order to cope with the sometimes difficult interactions we lead or drop a conversation to cope, letting us cope in our own way. Leaving them blind to what were actually experiencing.

Were trying to fit in and the guilt is on them not us, don’t feel guilt for being different.

Its a wild ride, since being diagnosed i’ve more embraced it than hidden it, but it has opened my eyes to who I am and how awful some people are.

38, great at masking. I work in a highly social enviornment (hospo) and have been for ~20 years.

Makes me feel like a sociopath but, people are relatively basic. A few quirky comments or general niceties go a long way for directing interactions the way you want them to transpire.

Its not been without its issues / hardships, lots of socially exhausted days, awkward interactions and one complete breakdown for 6 months. Saying so I’m well ontop of interacting with the humans and knowing my social limits / when I’m going overboard in a conversation but man it’s taken me a while.

I have a Ubiquiti AP along with some Google wifi (pre nest) hubs running OpenWRT all with 2.4 / 5.

And honestly I see no reason to update in the coming years, unless there are some major vulnerabilities around these devices.

I don’t need the fastest wireless speeds or latency, if I need either I’ll sit at my desktop or have a server handle the downloads via Ethernet.

Wife kicked me off our joined Spotify membership (we both agreed to her using student discount for her account) so I’ve setup plexamp for my albums. I mean technically streaming but self-hosted.

Has android auto, and the in app interface is reasonable.

Its kind of nice, just to play an album you own vs having a neverending list of songs you might enjoy.

Yeah my car is filthy 😇

Run a macvlan and give containers their own local IP. Or don’t expose the port on the host, and connect via reverse proxy.

I’m much the same in my auto with dsg. Having a gearbox vs slushbox lets me shift down a gear where I only need to gradually slow down or sit in say 2nd on a downhill and not gain any speed.

My car is from 2011 and it had the right amount of modern features while lacking all the touchscreen climate controls and connected nonsonce.

The sync looks to change while charging or when you are pressing buttons fast.

Not around here but the major banks in my area still allow for note / change deposits into accounts. They even have coin hoppers in some still, great for cleaning out the glovebox / centre console.

Been a while since I’ve used one as I generally take my change into work and convert it into notes there :D

It’s crazy to see the downturn in cash going through pubs, I’ve been in the industry for 20 years and remember when I’d started most transactions were physical money, these days on a busy night I’ll count the 7 tills we have and maybe end up with 3k in cash takings. (not including the pokies for obvious reasons).

You could always fall back to Hannah Montana Linux.

GUIX, openSUSE or Void might take your fancy if the more mainstream distros aren’t quite hitting the spot.

Ahh we don’t really use cheques here in Aus. Payments being electronic doesn’t worry me, pay lands in my account the same day it’s processed, sometimes the following day if the accountants miss the deadline.

Sending someone money is generally instant using PayID, without fees too.

I use neobanks (no physical branches) so as long as their web interface works well enough for me, and I can use my own 2FA (not SMS based) ill be happy as a pig in mud.

Just wait and see if the climate turns to no physical cards in the next 5 - 10 years…

Banks allow me to login via their web interface, send money to a BSB + Account Number or even a PayID (email / phone number) but using their app to do just the same is too far?

It’s total rubbish, honestly I’ve resurrected my OG ridge wallet and am planning on installing Graphene on my P7P to skirt the phone payment trap.

I was one of the few in Australia to test Google wallet (thanks for the free cash google) and thought it was the bees knees. It’s a fucking long con and fuck I feel dumb for falling into it.

Worst still my drivers licence is a phone app, so are my work certificates and probably a bunch of other shit that I’ll only realize later.

I guess fuck around and find out shows its ugly face eventually.

So vibe coding?

I’ve tried using llm for a couple of tasks before I gave up on the jargon outputs and nonsense loops that they kept feeding me.

I’m no coder / programmer but for the simple tasks / things I needed I took inspo from others, understood how the scripts worked, added comments to my own scripts showing my understanding and explaining what it’s doing.

I’ve written honestly so much, just throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks (works). I have fleshed out a method for using base16 colour schemes to modify other GTK* themes so everything in my OS matches. I have declarative containers, IP addresses, secrets, containers and so much more. Thanks to the folks who created nix-colors, I should really contribute to that repo.

I still feel like a noob when it comes to Linux however seeing my progress in ~ 1y is massive.

I managed to get a working google coral after everyone else’s scripts (that I could find on Github) had quit working (NixOS). I’ve since ditched that module as the upkeep required isn’t worth a few ms in detection speeds.

I don’t believe any of my configs would be where they are if I’d asked a llm to slap it together for me. I’d have none of the understanding of how things work.

Yer I host Plex for 10+ folks and it’s an easy send. Really wish I could pipe it through CloudFlare but not willing to risk it currently.

I’ll give plexamp a go, man my tastes are all over the shop so it will be an album dump (that I should have done years ago) spinning up some old cds and the external dvd drive 😂

You hosting your plex service for other users outside of your home? I’m finding the ease of access for other users / the wife is the largest driving point for me to continue using plex.

I could configure a VPN and attach my jellyfin server to that network however that’s a large hurdle for some of the general population users I have on my plex currently.

For something on-topic the wife and I agreed that she should move to the student sub as she’s studying and kick me off Spotify entirely. I’ve got until the EOM to get plexamp / something else self hosted. Interested to see what comes from this post as it’s pretty relevant for me right now.

Admittedly I could Bluetooth to my head unit in my car and stream Grayjay music to it, but that’s just leaning on an unfree service.

I found that powerline adaptors were a great temp fix until I was able to run some cat6a through the walls / ceiling.

Sounds like a temporary permanent fix.

Could be seeing if it’s a modem / other hardware fault.

Id personally try a hardwired connection, and if the problem persists try a live Linux distro and see if the problem persists there.

3070? I remember receiving boxes of these which were delegated to prebuild systems.

These were screamers, up there with the two slot 3090 blower from gigabyte 🫠

Yeah take a look at TempleOS and it’s filesystem RedSea.

TempleOS is a rabbit hole in of itself, RIP Terry.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS

I’ve not had any issues using my 3070 / 1660 mobile.

Been using Linux around 12m now on all my systems, drivers have luckily been a non issue.

Saying so depending on if AMD want to try and compete in the next generation of GPUs I’ll probably swing to team red.