Not the commenter you replied to, but I change my XDG directory names to be lowercase and start with different letters. For example, Desktop, becomes “drop” (as in pick it up and put it somewhere else) and Downloads is a subdirectory dl. A program that would otherwise save to “Downloads” now saves to “~/drop/dl”. When I setup my machines I run a script including the line xdg-user-dirs-update --set DESKTOP "drop" to update the XDG directory and I delete “Desketop”. So og commenter has the option of updating their userdirs to be nested in their username if they wanted to avoid symlinking. Here’s the relevant arch wiki page and xdg freedesktop page.

I’ve heard it referred to as “The worst negates the bad” fallacy.

I think I can relate. I deviate from the norm in a number of ways, but everyone’s different, so I didn’t think much of it. When I was filling out the questionnaires for my ADHD testing, and saw the specificity of the questions and how relatable they were, it was a watershed moment.

I don’t doubt my diagnosis, but I do wonder how extreme my case actually is. I often forget about it until I fall behind. So often it’s some disruption in the systems I didn’t realize I depend so heavily upon.

I’m intrigued. What’s the brand/model?

Thank you for the link! I actually came across these in my research, but I was annoyed they didn’t have any sample sounds online, and then my shopping fatigue (which is easy to trigger) kicked in. I’ll have to double back once I have more energy because I think you’re right, they do seem like a good prospect.

I’ll be on the lookout. Thanks again for the rec!

I think I have more contact with people outside of my timezone than within, so I relate. I often think I wouldn’t mind everyone switching to UTC. Even if that means I do things consistently at “odd” times, like go to bed at 10:00, wake up at 18:00 and eat dinner at 06:00.

At least we’d all be referencing the same clock. When I travel, I’d just change what time i woke up, not the clock itself, which would give a sense of changing global position. And if we still wanted DST we’d just agree to do everything an hour later and perhaps realize it’s ridiculous and stop doing that.

I have enjoyed the chime of many mechanical clocks. Finding a reasonably priced one with the features and a style I like is the challenging part. This may be the ideal solution; I just slow-burn the search and try other suggestions in the interim. Thanks!

Overkill is my style, and I’ve got the hobby picked up. I’ll have to look for a HA speaker that meets my criteria (private, decent quality/price/eco-mode). I like your idea for the button/switch. I’ve been manually tracking my sleep and thinking of switching to a HA button to mark sleep/wake times anyways, so this gives me another good reason to pursue it. Thanks for sharing!

Good idea. I have HA running on an old laptop. If I had a smart speaker, I’d be tinkering on this now. If I can find one that meets my particularities, I might go this route. Thanks for the suggestion!

I am most of the day. It might not serve all my needs, but it’s a great option. It’s going in my bookmarks and I’m trying it now. Thanks!

You’re onto something-- I could set each clock one hour apart and set the alarms to the same hour. That way, I don’t have to change 24 clocks twice a year; I just look at one clock for daylight savings time, and then look at a different clock during standard time. Bonus: I label the other clocks with their respective time zones.

I have an old android sitting around for when I require something not supported on a de-googled phone. So the app route seems like a solid option. Thanks for the recommendation

+1 for PBS streaming. It’s a great value and highly underrated.

Also moved to codeberg in the process. Bonus

Brilliant. I’ll just turn off the alarms for 8 of them at night, but keep them around in case my schedule changes.

Yeah-- it’s one of those things that was everywhere when I was younger: school, my grandparents’ home, nearby church-bells (I once had a job/shift that started when emergency sirens were being tested at 1pm every Saturday). It was background noise I took it for granted. After a number of moves and lifestyle changes I seem to have lost most audio time-cues without realizing it. And it’s been years before I realized.

Can’t hurt to try. Thanks for the rec!

Whoa, this is a trip down memory lane. My grandma had this clock (and probably ADHD). idk if it’ll fit the look of our place, but I like the idea and I appreciate your recommendation.

Yeah, a lot of people outside of linux think you have to use the command line to work on linux, but really it’s just an awesome, additional tool that then takes over a lot of gui stuff. It definitely helps when it’s your daily driver and you spend less time reading man pages and more time writing from memory and running snippets and aliases. [edit: fix grammer]