Have someone else tell you what to do

If you don’t have a someone, maybe AI can help you.
Now, let me preface this by saying I have an extreme prejudice against AI, but I can’t deny its usefulness for breaking down tasks.

goblin.tools is a good one, and at least they state wanting to go open source in the future, and be independant from OpenAI. If data privacy is important to you, than that might be something to keep in the back of the head.

But damn, just typing in clean room and getting it broken down into all the little steps is undeniably helpful.

Yeah, this is why it’s important to try and break down large goals into smaller goals. (I’m not saying it’s easy though)

Look at building muscle for example. What you need to do is focus on the little improvements, one extra rep each week, one extra pound each week. Make that your goal every single workout, instead of beating yourself up over the fact that you don’t look like 5x Mr Olympia Chris Bumstead yet.
(Which you won’t anyway, but that’s another story)

We want short-term success, instant gratification, but excercising for improving our health is a long-term project, whichever way you do it.

So you need to train in a way that gives you these smaller achievements sprinkled throughout the weeks, months and years.

How though, that’s highly individual and depends on the person.

I understand where you’re coming from, but I reckon there’s a lot someone can say or do to steer a person in the right direction, without being overly harsh or direct.

I wouldn’t expect anyone to just outright say Hey, you exhibit strong symptoms of ADHD, might wanna get that checked out.

But maybe a few hints here and there could go a long way already. Casually bring the topic up when it might fit into a conversation, making it occupy a portion of their mind, just enough for them to get interested in some research.

I’d hate this kind of reaction. Like, why didn’t they tell me anything? Was it not obvious enough how much I struggled in life?

Continue to call it malware, that’s perfectly appropriate

The difference between a major and minor chord can do so much, add in tritones and you’ve already got quite the toolset to create very specific emotions.

You’ve got the weight of a sound to work with, a good example would be the soundtrack of Interstellar. Contrasting a meaningless and powerless humanity in form of simple melodies on a piano with the absolute might and unfathomable size of space, brought to life with a massive organ.

Soooo much good music. On another note, check out The Good, the Bad and the Ugly played by the Danish National Orchestra, their channel is called DR Koncerthuset. If that one part doesn’t make you feel things, I don’t know what will

Building the LEGO set is more fun than playing with it when it’s done.

And you know what? That’s perfectly fine^^

that part sounds good

Then you have to ask why does it sound good?
Because it makes you feel a certain way.

Which way does it make you feel?
Happy/Sad/Powerful/Powerless etc

Why does it make you feel that way?

And so on and so forth. Try finding a few examples and compare what they all do similarly to achieve that same effect between them.

It’s so rewarding to track things down on your own, and then you can complete the knowledge by watching videos on the topic.

Does that make sense? I never know if I articulated my thoughts in a way other people can actually understand

Also, check out DaveWaves’ Explained in 2 minutes series

I’m rooting for you, just don’t fall too deep into the rabbithole that is vintage lenses^^
But if you do, here are my personal favourites:

• Minolta MD Rokkor 50mm 1.4 (Or the 1.2, if you find one at a good price)
• Pentacon Auto 50mm 1.8 Multi Coating
• Helios 44-2 58mm 2.0

I imagine old lenses in general would work wonderfully with the motives you mentioned, with all their little quirks and design flaws that give the image extra character

It’s the eyebrows for me. I have no idea what it is that I like so much, but it just tickles my brain in the right way

It definitely helped with some things, but not so much with others. Is to be expected, though.

Anyhow, I’ll talk to my doctor about it, how to proceed. Methylphenidate didn’t feel all too right to me, even if some things worked, like craving less sugar

I think I also just need therapy to learn habits with which I can make the best use out of these meds

I wish I’d focus on my creative projects…

I guess the medication worked after all, I wasn’t so convinced at first. But now that I don’t have it anymore, I definitely feel the difference.

I’m the only one in my family who can actually do that.

Everyone else keeps checking their phone, talking over each other, getting up every ten minutes to do something, which makes watching a movie with my family the most frustrating thing on earth.

It’s the one thing I can focus on, and they make it unnecessarily hard for me.

L1 Cache, like that one post not long ago described it

What worked for me was keeping the wardrobes and drawers open over the several days it took me to reorganize my stuff.

It was (mostly) enough to (somewhat) burn into my memory where (almost) everything is.

That feeling of being absolutely unstoppable when the hyperfocus dials itself in on something that’s actually important

…doesn’t happen all too often, does it

What it spits out from just the words clean room is pretty damn great, more than enough to convince me. And while I’m generally very careful with AI, I think in this instance it’s best for me to swallow my damn pride, and accept the help it can give me.

The About section does mention the wish to move this to open source solutions, which I’d very much love to see. I’m looking forward to whenever that can happen.

Oh, that looks really promising. But I’m extremely hesitant to use something like this if it can’t be done 100% local and offline

Edit: Maybe I’ll use it just for the most basic, non-personal stuff, like cleaning my room. Actually yeah, I think that’s okay

Just a shame that it’s not open source. I’ve been using Zettlr instead, it’s pretty much the only FOSS alternative that doesn’t pester me into syncing my stuff to a cloud, which is the one thing I like most about Obsidian.

How do you go about using it? I have a strong case of out of sight, out of mind, so I set it to launch automatically when I login, otherwhise I would just forget about its existence.

Those old projector lenses have aperture values that are just insane for photography. Hell yeah.

Fastest I have is a Minolta MD Rokkor 50mm 1.4, very nice glass, that one. But very far from producing anything like in that video.

I usually just shoot the birds in my backyard with mine, anything further away doesn’t work because the flange focal lenght doesn’t match. Old manual lens adapted to a DSLR.

Oh yeah, I think this is where the deer comes in. I saw one while on a walk, but it was too far away for me to focus on it. I’ll need to get me a mirrorless camera to eliminate the flange problem with those old lenses.

Those are the best conversations. Well, as long as the other person is willing to keep up and isn’t thrown off completely.

The funniest thing is that I even make the simplest and most logical things unnecessarily complicated.

The other day, the word deer reminded me I wanted to look up telezoom lenses. Well, I’m into nature photography, the conversation even started with photography, so that makes sense without any detours, right?

Haha

Explaining the connection while seeing the other person progressively lose more faith in humanity is never a dull moment.

X reminds of 6 reminds me of b reminds me of ℅ reminds me of 278 reminds me of d€1hG reminds me of π÷s8Ga&j

So very clearly, X has everything to do with π÷s8Ga&j

Tangents are my jam. Do you also connect the most random topics together? It’s always funny when someone talks about electrical engineering, and I chip in with the comment that it reminds me I should up my caloric intake

Open a file explorer, okay.

But then what? Did the app tell you where it saved your file? No, many apps don’t. So now you have to check in which of the several synonym-of-the-word-picture named folders that image is.

That’s just annoying. I want files I download to default into the downloads folder, for me to then put them wherever I want them to be.

You know, I do agree that many people would probably benefit from learning a bit more about the devices they use, but some devices just do things in a stupid way.

Librewolf is alright

Librewolf is absolutely goated, fantastic project

Schlussendlich wird ein Gesetz den Verantwortlichen halt erst dann auf die Finger klopfen, wenn der Schaden schon angerichtet ist.

Und die, die am meisten Schaden anrichten können, sind halt leider auch die, die sich am wenigsten von Gesetzen abschrecken lassen.

It baffled me when people on r/gymmemes of all places would think me eating a whole pizza in one meal is weird and not normal.

Not even a big pizza. 32cm in diameter.

I mean come on. Tuna. Just loaded with protein.

I absolutely love this image. The pure, genuine delight they show from seeing this penguin is really contagious.

Or is it just me?

Sich auch nur vorzustellen, dass die sowas machen könnten…

Ekelhaft

Was mich jetzt interessieren würde, ist ob die App die Funktion verweigert, wenn man alle unnötigen Verbindungen blockiert.

Sieht man ja immer wieder, sowas.

And then comes the question, what will they delete first?

Probably old and therefore maybe irrelevant content, but those old videos from over a decade ago are also mostly lower resolution and bitrate and won’t free up as much space.

So once that’s exhausted, what goes next?

Who will have the privilege to stay on the platform, and who won’t? Or in other words, who makes YouTube the most money?

And once that has to be decided, content will be whatever YouTube wants it to be. Which I can’t imagine being a good thing.

This is giving me flashbacks to Vine

Not being bothered by stuff like this seems to be one of the reasons people start using terms that are actually wrong instead of just ambiguous. Like 2K to describe QHD.

I will never let that one go.

I wonder when they’ll have to start deleting content to make space again. At some point, adding more and more servers probably won’t be feasible anymore.

It really is just wild that a service like YouTube is as big as it is and just does its thing.

I just realized that the only reason I noticed my old phones’ battery swelling was that the back cover is removable and got pushed out.

Now I’m terrified of my current aluminium unibody.

The worst part about chat control is that they proposed it without having a single clue as to how this would be set up, let alone managed and controlled.

Them not being able to give clear answers to absolutley valid and fair questions just breaks more trust in their competence.

Anyway, next I’d like them to ban anything that can be considered factory new e-waste, like cheap usb fans that break after a month, or keychain speakers that don’t even sound good. There’s so many things in production that just don’t have any business existing.