This week mine was homemade soda. Fermented sodas, citric acid + bicarbonate sodas, different juices and flavors like lime + lemon + cherry and pomegranate or mango peach or cola (homemade knock off)
Computers. I know so much random stuff about them. That’s why my friends ask me what to buy for their own.
Also reading about adhd on this community
Here’s another random thing you should know: In the windows 11 explorer, you need to right click on the filename to get the proper menu. If you right click somewhere else on the line that isn’t the filename text, it gives you the menu that is supposed to show up when you click on empty space.
Windows just isn’t for ADHD people. There’s so much crap you need to keep in mind to use it and every little thing is a distraction.
Thats why I use windows 10 and Linux at the moment. Xfce is pretty good IMO.
Same, but just at home unfortunately. Using windows for the occasional game that doesn’t run properly on linux is fine, but actually engaging with OS stuff is just hell.
Today at work I spent an hour fixing onedrive and it turns out that the permissions for the root folder of onedrive are just fucked most of the time. Team microsoft’s solution is to just put everything into the documents folder because that’s usually fine.
I feel like windows specifically interferes hard with my ADHD because I keep thinking about this crap. My colleagues just deal with it and then do something else, but my brain keeps getting stuck on it. I’ll sometimes even do stuff that would definitely work on linux just to test windows. Sometimes it feels like I actually learn something, but more often than not I just find another broken thing and get frustrated.
Today I even caught myself checking out the vscode-nvim extension just to use my mouse less but the setup for windows was two pages and the one for linux was like one command.
Now I’m looking for a different job and I hope they have proper tools. Not sure if I can bear much more microsoft crap.
Sorry for the rambling, in the middle of writing I just felt like I need to get this off my chest and kept going.
For the past two weeks it’s been Legos. I always wanted to build big kits as a kid, but they’re way way too expensive, even for me today now that I’m making decent money. Well lo and behold, there are tons of knockoff Lego manufacturers, many of whom will just sell you 100% ripped off sets for dirt cheap. I just put the final piece on the new Rivendell set today, and I’m going to start the millennium falcon UCS here soon. Unfortunately, it’ll have to wait until my thumbs heal up from all the damage - placing tons of bricks really chews up the tips of your thumbs and index fingers
The damage to your digits might be due to the knockoffs. They are cheap and look like Lego, but Lego is still way ahead of them. Worth the extra money is debatable, but try grabbing even a cheaper Lego set to compare. The knockoffs haven’t figured out the tolerances and possibly also haven’t figured out the materials themselves, so pieces might take more force to place and still not sit as well.
Not at expert myself - but according to my sources including the German youtuber “Held der Steine” Lego is not the top quality brand. Sure the very cheap ones are likely worse, but e.g. the polish brand “cobi” has as far as I heard better quality (I mostly heard about the difference in colouring though).
ADHD and mental health in general. I just found out two weeks ago and now I’m binging Dr. K and whatever similar stuff youtube recommends.
I reckon it’ll be a challenge to stay mindful of all that stuff when I find something new to hyperfocus on, but at least I know in advance this time.
AI. For some reason I’m looking at taking a degree on it next year like I’ll still be interested then.
As someone who studied data science up until a year ago: Consider that carefully. The whole space is moving so ridiculously fast that half the stuff you learn will be outdated in 2 years.
If you want to get a job in the field right after getting that degree, it makes sense. But if you already know how to program, learning AI stuff for 2-3 months can also get you that job. It’s quite a new field, so the requirements aren’t formalized yet. That path would probably make more sense for ADHD.
This week I decided I was going to re-create the shared spreadsheet to my investment club portfolio, which quickly turned into writing a Python investment tracker
I’ve lost several nights to writing it so far, but it feels a little at the brink of disinterest now. There’s only like a 5% chance I finish either the spreadsheet or the tracker at this point
–UPDATE–
I’m moved on to researching how car infotainment systems work and if it’s possible to make your own. Guess it’s just one of those weeks.
It is possible to make your own! You can use an old tablet, or even better a raspberry pi and touch screen. Then you add a hat with a better dac and send the audio to an amp. It’s really cool, but I’m pretty sure just buying an actual aftermarket unit will get me a better unit for less money and much less work…
Those are a massive security problem if you connect them to the internet though because they never get updated and we tend to use them for much longer than any phone.
