I’m a little OCD on keeping track of the time, not sure why. One thing I enjoy is wearing a watch. I’ll look at it half a dozen times in a row to make sure I read it right, but I also enjoy wearing it because I think it looks neat and I like seeing it and watching it tick.
Maybe a cheapish watch that the kid likes, and would want to wear rather than needing to remember to wear it, could help? A little dose of “that’s neat” while also seeing the time.
It happens to me every time I pick up a book. If you can hold your focus for a page or two, then it starts to flow. Once you have the flow, as long as you’re not in a very distracting place, its smooth sailing.
I deleted the bird app off phone and deleted my shitposting account and it’s freed up so much time, I’ve started reading again.
It was sorta reading before, but then I started just getting better at it when my attention wasn’t being stolen. I challenged myself to finishing a book in 4 days while taking notes and it was honestly really fun and I was really pumped when I finished.
It’s a skill but also a muscle if that makes sense. I don’t think adhd inherently makes reading harder, but it definitely makes it harder to get into the groove.
Typically volume of a track is chosen by the producer/person mixing. You could theoretically get an average volume and scale the tracks gain. This could have the effect of compressing or chopping parts of the song that are purposefully loud while the rest of the song is purposefully quiet.
I think it isn’t done in order to maintain the intention of how the track was mixed. Typically people won’t have playlists of quiet classical mixed with maxed out edm so a general rule is hard to predict and the authors of the music player just leave it as is.
Look into the cd loudness wars of the 90s where record companies were mixing their tracks louder and louder to compete, which produced notoriously terrible album mixes.
I just think its good.
The way I see it, you can have an OS that breaks less often and is hard to fix, or an OS that breaks a little more often that is easy to fix. I choose the latter. 99/100 times, when something breaks with an update, it’s on the front page of archlinux.org with a fix.
The problems I’ve faced with other distros or windows is the solution is often “reinstall, lol”, which is like a 3 hour session of nails on a chalkboard for me.
I’m gonna comment and say that’s the point.
You start out with bare minimum and install what you need. As you go you generally have an idea of what is and isn’t on your system. It’s not as annoying as Gentoo with all source compiling, not as anal as nix.
If something breaks, you go to ArchLinux.org and 95% of the time it’s mentioned on the front page so you follow the instructions and move on. It’s a very transparent distro, little drama to follow unlike Ubuntu/canonical or fedora/redhat.
It used to be harder to install and which gave some street cred, but they simplified it a bit which is nice.
The Stans give an unbalanced look at arch. I use arch because I want the latest packages, I don’t want to segment my packages between my repos and tarballs when there’s a game stopping missing feature on a package pinned to a 2yo version. I don’t want to learn a whole scripting language to carefully craft my OS like nix either. I want a current OS that’s easy to fix and easy to install packages so I can go back to what I was doing.
I really didn’t want to go the medicine route years back. Like OP Im a guy who always kept it long. I decided to give the basic regimen a try and went with a keeps like service because dermatologists are by far the worst doctors I’ve had to work with.
And although it thinned, the thinning totally stalled, to a point where it’s a little noticable but on a good day isn’t at all.
I haven’t cut my hair in years and despite it being annoying to take care of sometimes, I get to look in the mirror and see the version of myself that I like to see which makes the little bit of medication worth it imo.
I always hated the “just shave it and own it, bro” attitude because damn my hair is part of my identity, I love having it. I’ll put some effort into keeping it.
Yeah depending on age, it might call for a kickass spiderman watch