I feel the need for this in my bones, but right now I’m probably a bad candidate for it.
Sure I have a 3D printer still in the box that’s worth a couple hundred bucks, but that is still gonna happen because it’s a father & son interest. But my photography equipment, and now after this year my collection of power tools, are both fairly valuable and those hobbies are a significant part of my life.
You take back this AssSMR image you put in my head!
Yeah, it literally helps me experience and respond to the world around me the way I rationally want to. And that includes caring for my family and pets along with any hobby/work benefits.
Yeah, it seems that so many people are that way about so many things. And at some point I honestly thing it is bad for you.
Sometimes learning to do the thing and then doing it yourself is a FAR better experience for your well being even if you get worse results in twice the time and at double the cost versus paying somebody to do it for you.
I am convinced that impostor syndrome is just the other end of the spectrum from the Dunning-Kruger effect.
That doesn’t necessarily mean that having impostor syndrome means you’re an expert, but that you have the curiosity to look under the surface and get a glimpse of the long path ahead of you. You don’t just assume you “got this” because one piece of many clicked into place.
I guess my strong impostor syndrome has mellowed over these past 5 or so years while I have been working on myself (as in mental health, not job skills, lol). Some of it is confidence gained by knowing better who I am and what I want out of life, accompanied by elimination of a lot of “I should be learning this / doing that / building my career XYZ” thoughts. And part of it is leaning into what makes me different from others at work versus the others, using that stuff as strengths rather than seeing them as deficiencies where I don’t match up.
because I was interested in how coding works, and trying to understand underlying concepts
Ah, yes. The secret to being better than most people at at most things. Curiosity and giving a shit.
I jumped through hoops decades ago to get tested for ADHD and did not get the diagnosis based on my good performance on the cognitive tests, plus some of my wife’s questionnaire answers not seeming severe enough.
I finally started Adderall here in my 40s thank freaking god.
The definitely sounds like something to try. Thanks!
Just yesterday I wiped the drive and installed Linux on the 3rd old PC for the LAN setup I’m putting together, literally “for the children!”
It’s an i7-920 from 2008. It has TRIPLE channel ram, baby. I installed Linux Mint Cinnamon and it was as quick and painless as usual.
I already get the warm fuzzies when I walk into the room and find my 3rd grader playing on my PC instead of their tablet or even the console. Our first LAN party is gonna be sweet.
eww, yeah I can see that happening and a lot of people liking it too.
Even though our suburban neighborhoods are designed to be pro-car and anti-community, the one nice thing about the single family home and little fenced in yard setup is that I can keep some natural beauty close by.
I could see some very well-meaning folks in local government being boxed in by citizens on one side that make their luxury SUVs and even more luxurious pickup trucks into major parts of their identities, and then the various layers of government above them driving the standards that make all of our towns samey-looking stroads. I’m in the US if that wasn’t obvious, and the car-centrism runs deep.
I’m a middle aged dude and my house was build multiple decades before I was born. Back then my neighborhood was designed 100% for cars. They even put in drainage ditches that precluded the addition of sidewalks. But several years back the township did paint a walking path down one side of my street.
The new neighborhoods built in the last decade are mostly the same as far as being car-only. They usually have sidewalks and you will see people taking walks or children playing. But it’s only local recreation, to walk the dog or to visit a neighbor. If you need to go to the grocery store, it’s time to hop into the 2-3 ton family vehicle.
I will give my local government and developers credit though, that some recent projects have been to create what look like islands of walkable community. I have look through the businesses and see if they have groceries and the like. From what I’ve seen the neighborhood seems to be densely packed expensive apartments and townhomes that were rapidly built en masse, and then in the center there’s a grassy field and some breweries and restaurants and stuff. So possibly some very American designs going on there.
You have the best username + job combo I’ve seen all day!
And honestly it works whether it’s accurate or not, lol.
FOSS is free and open source software. And the word “free” does a lot of heavy lifting there because it refers to much more than it typically not costing anything. It means that you have the freedom to do what you want with your stuff, basically. You (or others on your behalf) can see the source code for what the software is doing, and you can even change and improve it.
You’ll see the word “libre” thrown around in this context too, for that reason. For many people the liberty side of free matters a lot more than the no-cost side. But they do go hand in hand, because not needing to protect a revenue stream makes it a lot easier to not enshittify software. You’ll see names like LibreOffice and FLOSS instead of FOSS.
So it’s basically the whole Linux world that is very well represented on Lemmy and the fediverse. :)
Sent using FOSS Voyager web client …in FOSS browser LibreWolf (a fork of FireFox) …on FOSS operating system Linux.
I use Mint btw.
(This is an inside joke for the other Linux people – a play off of “I use Arch btw” where Arch Linux is a hardcore distro where you kind of build your operating system piece by piece, but with excellent documentation. Valve switched SteamOS to be based on Arch a while back)
Longtime lifetime Plex Pass holder here.
FOSS is important. Having control over how you use your own hardware and files is important.
But even if none of that mattered, once I actually used Jellyfin for a few days the snappy bloat-free feel of it won me over. Switching between Plex and Jellyfin felt like switching between windows and linux.
people whose entire job description is “I admin and support these three systems” being unable to do literally anything in their systems without relying on the vendor’s help desk for the software.
I have run into a lot of engineers who would better be described as purchasers of equipment. And those roles are often very necessary, especially in fields like manufacturing engineering where you might have a single engineer specifying/buying/managing millions of dollars in capital equipment that makes money 24 hours a day if running and loses money 24 hours a day if not running.
And the usefulness or uselessness of those individuals varies, just as it does with all people. But to think of somebody with an admin title being SO helpless is pretty crazy. But maybe it’s a win-win for the admin and the software vendor at the expense of the employer, lol.
the capitalists (Ferengi) are depicted as ruthless and conniving (oftentimes outright cartoonish) villains
And once again, reality lets out a “here we go again” sigh and says “fine… hold my beer.”
That sounds like a long road
getting from there to here.
It’s not the funniest one, I don’t have an account, and I don’t live near one. But if I ever see the option to log in with Jollibee on any legit service I am already using I am switching over to that ASAP.
Bitwarden has been working great with me as sits transition to passkeys, even big corporate ones.
But yeah in practice, google and facebook are going to probably dominate because they are the easy + free option.
Any incremental improvement is worth it, IMO. Think of it like the flip side of the swiss cheese security model.
My intentional mindset and positive thinking don’t make my ADHD go away. But maybe they give me that last bit of motivation to get out of bed one day, or they flip the script and remind me that whatever activity my family wants to do with me this evening is way more important than that spare bedroom I finally started cleaning after several years.
When it comes to mental health and enjoying existence, never stop giving yourself the best chance you can.