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I better bookmark this post
I’m beginning to suspect I have an undiagnosed problem
The most recent thing I remember losing is a website/blog explaining how video encoding works, and algorithm of different encodings; written by someone who has written different implementations in rust. It has really good explainations that I just skimmed through, bookmarked it, then lost it. If the other ADHD folks have ever seen something like that, please let me know, I’ll have to re-add it for that one day.
Facts lol 😂
OK I take most of these on the chin but I gotta push back on this one because NTs could use it too.
Every picture in the database gets OCR + fuzzy-alt-text + facial-rec + geo-location + timestamp etc etc, all of which are indexed and searchable. Yet the entries themselves are effortless to produce once you’re in the habit.
Those breadcrumbs ultimately augment your functional capacity for recall, and can help you turn an incredibly vague hint of a memory into… voila! …an actual snapshot of that thing from the past.
So it’s not some kind of magpie hoarding behavior necessarily.
It’s note-taking, receipt-keeping, evidence-gathering, and journaling that’s effortless and constantly useful.
Nah, you just need to become the other kind of ADHD.
I realized that even if the archive is unwieldy, the act of saving satisfies the itch. So I’m not saving to necessarily look at it later. I’m saving so that the annoying part of my brain fucks off and I can enjoy my day in peace.
I really appreciate this viewpoint. Most of the satisfaction I get is from bookmarking and organizing my bookmarks. That being said, I routinely go through my bookmarks and revisit things.
A few weeks ago I managed to sit down for a few hours to put all my ongoing tasks and projects in fucking project management software in order to be able to follow it up better. I’m now afraid of opening the software to look at the mountain of collected work therein.
I’ve got so many dead tasks management tools that I spent a day setting up.
Oh, but have you tried [insert software that has 8-billion tools, all of which you ignore and you just use as a notepad]?
I finally began to just purge everything, its a whole project trying to sell off my projects though so now my living room is a warehouse of boxes and bubbles wrap I’ve been bringing home from work
You laugh but I’m glad Ive got a picture of my driver’s license favorited so I can find my license number easily without having to get up and find my wallet when some random form wants it.
Never mind that I still remember my Windows 95 license key but can’t remember my own driver’s license number.
Never mind that I still remember my Windows 95 license key
…h…how many times did you have to reinstall Windows 95?*
*Before 98 came out? Lol
IT professional… SO MANY TIMES. Any not just reinstall, we were upgrading and doing primary installs.
I knew a 95 key and an office key. (which was easy because 1201234567 worked on O2k
This makes so much sense hahaha.
Probably giving away my years, but in my brain’s personal experience, Windows starts being an IT OS around the XP era. :p
Nobody was going to stay on 3.11
NT really lacked drivers and was super expensive.
We used 95, skipped 98 until se came out. We did a fair amount of Win2k, XP was pretty rough until service pack 2. When Serviceback 3 hit, we eradicated everything else on the desktop.
A lot. I had a Packard Bell 486 that came with 3.1 and a free upgrade. Except I would constantly get “Explorer.exe has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down” error.
One day I decided to compress the hard drive and for some reason, that fixed it. It never happened again.
OOF
I managed to finish writing a poem after more than 6 months. I hope I can finish my academic paper soon as well. Man, life is fucking hard.
Go do 20 minutes on your paper.
What’s 20 minutes?
You got this!
Life is fucking hard, but a step at a time can make it more bearable. I believe in you SexualPolytope
Thanks lol. I do intend to finish by this weekend. But then I planned it last weekend too. Let’s see how it goes lol.
Look at all those things yesterday-me was interested in.
I will make that hoagie roll recipe I’ve had open for months, I’m just not ready yet
Now you’ve got to share it with us.
https://www.richardeaglespoon.com/articles/how-to-hoagie
Ask and ye shall receive
Ooo that looks good. I got into sandwich making as my hyperfocus for a while and I’d really like to make more.
Mmm MM!
Sandwiches is a good hyper focus. <3
Listen. That e-ink display I’ve got tucked away in a screenshot and an open tab is important and I will look at it later and decide whether I want to do that project.
ooo love playing with displays.
whaddya got in mind for that juicy e-ink?
