So, I’m not diagnosed with ADHD, so while I identify with a lot of things people post on this community, I don’t know how helpful my contributions would be. I still live in a part of the world where neurodivergence is still thought of as a condition of suffering so not getting diagnosed (or checked) seems like the better option.

Anyway, I’m baffled by people with aphantasia. A few of my family members claim to be like this. Personally if you tell me you don’t have six internal TV channels for your brain to constantly flip through over and over some part of me still thinks you’re pulling my leg. On top of a few radio stations full of familiar musical bits and pieces that I don’t know the name of and must find I must absolutely find where they come from wow I sure hope I don’t spend three hours on a Thursday night scrubbing through local playlists and listening/watching history and game soundtracks to find a six second earworm.

I have grown to infrequently depend on a disgusting and Anti-American™ Arabic psychoactive drug as a social lubricant.

Al Kohol can now be found in many cities around the world, there’s even different flavors now. When will this debauchery end?!

I’m seeding a handful. I think maybe one or two has a non zero share ratio, and none above 1. But it’s not clogging up any bandwidth for me, so I’ll keep it going for now.

He’d have a guy with a bunker full of 1952 Tylenol, which “still had mercury and opium so you know it worked”.

It’s like you people don’t grapple with conspiracy culture and its tireless army of very well adjusted people.

I’m continuously amazed by even the shittiest and most cheaply made laptops, just because the form factor is so weird compared to big computers. Fitting a whole ass computer into what is basically a big keyboard dictates so many design compromises and yet it’s one of the main form factors so tooling, know-how, chips etc are all designed to make something out of it.

I always think I broke or missed a flat cable when I have to poke around in there (less than ever now thanks to the adoption of PTM over thermal paste that ages into toothpaste).

This might have been the last AAA game I was hyped for, bought at full price, and enjoyed within its buzz cycle.

I should play it again.

Maybe not word for word then, you got me there

If the corporate world’s shockingly uncritical adoption of LLM-generated text isn’t the most damning example of how capitalism is its own most scathing self-parody I don’t know what is.

These sentences don’t convey meaning. Even good advertising (as in it’s good at being advertising) transports an idea from a sender to a recipient. What is this? What the fuck is this?

At least your cubicleslop is funny. Compare that to

you’ll take on the responsibility of ensuring passenger safety

Would a writer, even an atrocious one, imply that the person looking at the details of a flight school needs to be informed that the job of a pilot is in fact not to crash the plane?

There’s no point in being upset at senseless machine output. But the continuous abdication of common sense by people accepting it blindly is absolutely maddening.

Begging on my hands and knees to see one last paragraph written by a human and not a syntactically valid but otherwise dead-sounding lexical mélange. Even if it’s for stupid bullshit like this. Just because most of these words are relevant to aviation it doesn’t mean they create a convincing blurb. Half of these words do nothing to make me think positively about the thing they’re breathlessly advertising.

I know no part of my complaint is novel. I know this is about the easy dunk on the flight school named after history’s oldest failed “pilot”. But this is so blatant. Multiple people have signed off on making this very critical training sound as low effort as possible.

I heard this word for word but in Arabic back in like 2006 about Yasser Arafat. What’s old is new again.

I use an iOS app called Pennyworth and export from that to spreadsheets on my computer (sadly it looks like there’s a half dozen apps with the same name now). It’s relatively convenient to log everything manually in, and it has a few handy data breakdowns, but it all goes into an offline spreadsheet with all the silly calculations my heart desires. It’s not a subscription. It has budgeting features but I don’t use those. I don’t think the UI is particularly intuitive for people who dislike calendar views, but once it clicks it’s pretty logically laid out.

I want to refine the spreadsheet side, and I wanted to post to one of these comms with a similar question recently to see what others are doing, but that’s how I do it. At one point I wanted to move the spreadsheet side to a Google Doc or something similar that I can access from my phone, but I’m less inclined to upload personal information to Google these days. I think I have an encrypted zipped backup of an older version of that spreadsheet backed up there but that’s about it.

My bank doesn’t let me export anything and besides I live in the third world where (for better or for worse) we use cash for almost everything. So it’s no surprise my method is built around something that makes the manual record-keeping process faster and easier.

On-device translation is also exactly what I want out of this tech and we have it. You can even just go to about:translations. This isn’t 2001 anymore, you shouldn’t be using someone else’s server to translate something quick for you. Not at first pass at least.

Most Western Civilization-understanding “Western Civilization” admirer.

The second big one for me is how shocking I find it that timezone spoofing isn’t standard, now that so many people use VPNs. Why would someone connecting from Sweden have their clock set to GMT? Etc

You ought to really bite down on that filter, give it a good satisfying crunch, just give it a real manly squeeze using your masculine man face working man muscles, just to make sure no particles go anywhere. You’ll be fine, trust

The asbestos is probably the healthiest ingredient in that cigarette.

Welcome to the Fediverse. Just a heads up, your post does read like botspam and people here are very protective of this corner of the internet. The emoji-led list isn’t helping.

I’ve set up older relatives’ phones to work in a similar way (iOS widgets and shortcuts mostly) so I really appreciate your effort here. But even if you just are just stepping in here to make a few posts and then leave, please make an effort not to talk down to us like you’re screaming into the void on Instagram or LinkedIn.

Edit: Your comments do read like they came out of a slop generator. And publishing your code, even if it’s not beautiful, even if you’re cleaning it up in the future, would be a sign of goodwill.

Trust is a two way street my friend. It’s up to you not to seem suspicious.

This is almost certainly in Kuwait (NBK = National Bank of Kuwait), so when it comes to greenery, the manicured and constantly watered grass I’ve seen in other nearby cities concerns me a bit more. What with the labor heavy maintenance under the sun and the desalination needed to water the grass. At least concrete doesn’t need that.

The image quality is what I take issue with. I thought what a nice and sharp image. Then I zoomed in to read the signs and it’s clearly been unartfully run through a very aggressive upscaling process. Chunky JPGness would have been fine.

“… highlighting conviction in healthcare…”

The banality of evil is going to be such a tired trope by the time my kids are my age.

Not clicking on the link, but this is right up my alley. Would love to host something like that locally, some sort of convenient museum of emulated stuff.