[-] DJDarren@beehaw.org 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah, my reaction to losing them is a good chunk of why my wife suggested not getting any more. I don't deal with it very well. I go to pieces, quite frankly. When I took Feegle for his last trip a few months ago, the vet's receptionist asked if I wanted to wait in a quiet room, no doubt because my sniffling and dribbling was putting off the other customers.

But Feegle was adorable.

[-] DJDarren@beehaw.org 20 points 11 months ago

No, it hasn't.

[-] DJDarren@beehaw.org 25 points 1 year ago

I love fixing up classic iPods, and as much as I enjoy it, any mention of it comes with "but why?", then the person asking refuses to understand why I still like using iPods even in this time of streaming music.

[-] DJDarren@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago

As others have said, there's always an adjustment period, and before you know it you'll be doing it without even thinking about it.

When I started at my current workplace five years ago, I was out of shape after spending almost ten years either at uni, or in a succession of office jobs. So going back on my tools as a welder was a massive shock that I wasn't really expecting. But suddenly, six months or so in, I realised that I was finding the work much less physically demanding, which felt really gratifying. I wasn't fit by any means (I never have been), but fit enough to do the work.

Then, 18 months ago I got promoted to a desk job, and I'm fat as shit again. I'd be fucked after a day back on my tools.

[-] DJDarren@beehaw.org 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Look at that subtle off-white colouring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my god, it even has a watermark."

[-] DJDarren@beehaw.org 24 points 1 year ago

I disagree. Linus shooting from the hip and making himself look an even bigger ass is incredibly entertaining.

[-] DJDarren@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago

Perhaps, but I see it as indicative of the problem in general. A slapdash attitude where they don't pause for a second to consider what they're actually doing, which, you'd think they might try and do under a 20 minute video where they grovel and scrape and beg forgiveness.

[-] DJDarren@beehaw.org 23 points 1 year ago

that (mostly) just works.

FTFY

As a Mac user since 2007 it feels like that statement gets a little less true every couple of years. But for me it’s still light years ahead of Windows when it comes to my workflow.

[-] DJDarren@beehaw.org 27 points 1 year ago

When I joined Mastodon in the November migration, I wondered why media organisations weren’t spinning up their own servers. Give all the journos an account on that server and there’s your verification right away.

[-] DJDarren@beehaw.org 23 points 1 year ago

Remember, decent people Never buy The Sun.

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I'm absolutely obsessed with this today. It's 8 minutes long, but I've listened to it a good 10 times already this morning.

I've heard the single version dozens of times in my life, and love it enormously, but I've never listened to it on my Good Headphones until today, and by christ the production, and guitars and bass are beautiful. And Kirsty's voice, obviously.

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In a state of mind where I never want to hear anything but music by Refused for the rest of my banging, shouty life.

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For me, this is one of those tracks that I can sink into like a big, soft bed, and get lost in its warm folds. Put it on in your best headphones, close your eyes, and let the lads from Sheffield take you on a journey.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by DJDarren@beehaw.org to c/neurodivergence@beehaw.org

This morning I'm mostly grumpy about my ADHD.

Firstly, I didn't get around to taking my pill until an hour after I got up, because I straight up forgot, despite remembering as I was pouring my coffee.

Then I just realised that I missed a Dr appointment yesterday, because it was made two fucking weeks ago, and despite being in the fucking calendar I can't be trusted to fucking remember anything.

I'm particularly angry about that, because it was to review (and hopefully increase) my meds...

I'm angry about that because it could have been a sodding phone appointment, but every drs surgery is run by old guys who are massively averse to anything beyond sitting in front of their patients so they can chastise them for being fat.

And I really want to practice the mindfulness I've been taught, to consider that this is a spiral, and that ultimately no harm has been done, I'll just be increasing (hopefully) my dosage a couple of weeks later.

But I'm frustrated that there's so much stuff I have to remember that I just can't. Other people manage to juggle all the needs on them, but I feel like I always fail, or at the very least that I can't be trusted to be consistent.

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My wife showed me a TikTok last night of a woman talking about this app, and how useful she finds it. I've just installed it on my Mac, and yeah, it looks like it could be pretty helpful.

It's essentially just a frontend for Chat-GPT, but arranged in a way to be helpful to those of us with executive dysfunction issues.

I'm going to use it a bit over the next couple of weeks to see how good it turns out to be.

Let me know if you try it out. It's worth it for £1/$1.

(I'm not affiliated with the app in any way, just saw it and thought it might be useful to some people.)

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submitted 1 year ago by DJDarren@beehaw.org to c/music@beehaw.org

This is one of the best songs ever. Discuss.

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As far as I'm concerned, this is GnR's imperial period.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by DJDarren@beehaw.org to c/neurodivergence@beehaw.org

Howdy, fellow ADHDers. How the bloody hell do you get ANYTHING done at work?

My career history has been pretty varied, but I currently find myself as a quality and training manager at a firm that values neither. Because of this lack of defined interest from management above, much of my workload is self-led, and self motivated.

Which, of course, means that I do basically nothing.

I've been seeing a work coach for the past few months, who is helping to steer my mindset in the right direction, and ultimately it boils down to how easily distracted I am by things I deem more interesting than what I'm paid to do. Which is everything.

The one tool that works for me is a website blocker called Cold Turkey, which literally just forces me to not be able to access whichever websites I specify. It works brilliantly, because there's almost no way to override it, not easily anyway. However, the automated actions are part of the paid for app, which I can't currently afford, so I have to manually push the button that cuts me off from all those beautiful distractions on the internet.

The anxiety this spikes in me is way more than is healthy...

So what tools do you use to try and get shit done?

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I know there are a couple of apps already in development, but I kinda want to have a go to learn how to build an app in Swift. So what are some good resources to learn?

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What are the weird, low budget movies you've been enjoying lately?

[-] DJDarren@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago

An interesting feature of Apollo is the ability to highlight accounts that are less than a month old. Between seeing that highlight, and a slew of randomly generated usernames, it's amazing how many accounts on there that are almost certainly bots, just chatting away.

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Just wondering how many of us are a) Mac users, and b) users of Macs so old that they need OCLP in order to run the latest OS.

If nothing else, it might be nice to have a space where we can discuss support that isn't getting lost in the sea of chat on Discord.

[-] DJDarren@beehaw.org 23 points 1 year ago

Oblig. fuck u/spez

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