I know this is a joke, but for anyone wondering, it was named by scientists and doctors… They don’t just make shit up for naming things like this.

Factually there is a measure of deficit to the ability for people with this issue, to maintain the focus of their attention on any particular thing, in a normal fashion. Normal being that neurotypical people can choose what they focus their attention on, and don’t really have any trouble doing that.

The hyperactivity part, I believe is more about the physiological effects in the brain for people with the disorder. I’m not a doctor, but I believe one of the main characteristics of ADHD, is that dopamine receptors are hyperactive, leading to a deficiency of dopamine (and/or other signaling chemicals) in the brain. This can cause depression, anxiety… The list goes on.

So yeah. ADHD.

I dunno for sure. I’m just some guy with ADHD.

I should. We’ve been estranged for nearly a decade. I should just do it to be an annoying prick.

I like doing the reverse.

Like if someone asks me if I want A or B, and I’ll say yes.

Logically, as long as I want one of those things, the answer is “true”

… People hate talking to me.

I prefer this interpretation.

I’m lucky to have enough energy after doing what I am required to do every day, to acknowledge my spouse and make us some dinner.

Nevermind paying close attention to anything.

Luckily, my SO isn’t crazy and understands that we’re both busy with work pretty consistently. So there’s no real friction here. I know I’m fortunate to be in that situation, and I wouldn’t even suggest that’s not the case.

What about piefediles?

My best friend is a developer, and I personally have a lot of respect for the work you all do.

One thing I can definitely say is a positive of working with your kind, is that you people don’t have printer issues.

I hate printers.

This is less awful IT practice and basically just bad development practice.

Working in IT support, you developers are a different breed of users.

Back in my day, we called that pseudocode. It’s code-like, but not in any actual programming language that you could compile from.

It’s more of a set of ideas of how to accomplish something, than it is actually coding.

The fun part is, that pseudo code can be adapted to any actual programming language.

Idk why everyone is crazy about vibes all of a sudden… But sure.

0.3% overall. There might be half a million new Linux gamers on steam, but there’s still hundreds of millions of PC gamers using Windows.

You can arrange the numbers how you want, the fact is that this is still a pretty small shift in the overall PC gamer landscape. I promise you, that’s how any larger developer sees it. Their pool of PC gamers shifted by a fraction of a percent. A good chunk of those that they “lost” as potential customers, probably wouldn’t have bought their games in the first place.

The demographic overlap for large studios of people who are intentionally using Linux for gaming, and people that are interested in their game, doesn’t overlap much, if at all, I bet. Until we get their key demographic switching over in large enough quantities to threaten their profits, the majority of the industry won’t budge from their windows centric views.

Look. I don’t hate Linux. Quite the opposite in fact. I’m rooting for these stats to move in and significant amount. I feel that’s an inevitable shift that will happen and until we do, we’ll keep getting these articles, describing a fraction of a percent move in the overall numbers as if it’s a huge culture shift for how people are playing games.

If you haven’t seen it, maybe you should watch field of dreams, becasuse the main tag line of the movie “if you build it, they will come” definitely applies here. The larger PC gaming community, there is a statistically significant number of indie devs and indie studios that support Linux as a platform, even if it’s just the steam deck they’re building for… Those studios just are not the biggest players in terms of revenue/sales… But they’re the ones building “it”. This is slowly but surely fueling the fires that will eventually burn down Microsoft’s dominance in the gaming space. It’s been a war that’s been waged for literal decades, since before steam was a thing.

There will come a day when we will hit critical mass and the large studios will be forced to either accept that their user base is shrinking because they don’t support Linux. That day is not today. We will need to see much more movement than a few percent difference before that happens. This isn’t even a few percent. This is a fraction of a percent of the total.

So forgive me if I’m not excited by any of this. It’s movement in the right direction, but it’s utterly meaningless to the companies that could actually shift the industry to Linux on a large scale.

Are we going to make a big deal out of every 0.3% shift in steams stats towards Linux?

Wake me up when we’re dealing in whole percentages… That’s when I’ll be excited about it, until then this could just be a sampling bias. A rounding error.

Shit. I know what this is. Goddammit.

The first handful of episodes, you could tell that spiner was trying to figure out how to play data. There’s something just … Off about his portrayal of the Android… It’s hard to describe.

But, to be blunt, there were a lot of things that were “off” about season 1…

I used to do this unintentionally while working in a call center. We dealt with a lot of folks from the south who had similar accents. I’m Canadian, eh?

My coworkers used to say that when I’d show up to work, I was (my name), and by the time I be left, I was farmer (my name).

I honestly didn’t intend to do it. I’m just so used to mirroring the people around me.

Data is a mimic. Got it.

O’Brien is a highlight of any show he’s in.

My boss disagrees with this.

ADHD life in a nutshell (because bonus thoughts are always worth it).

Spear phishing disagrees with you.

If you’re targeting a specific individual, cloning their SIM or performing another number hijack or even intercepting their SMS in flight, are all viable.

For broader, more general attacks SMS is usually enough to keep anyone out.

Honestly, probably not much less secure than SMS.