dimi @dimi@qoto.org

Something
is happening
maybe.

#TheMatrix is lower resolution than I remember it being.

(This is my final attempt. If this #LXLE installation doesn't work, I give up.)

The only reason I'm following celebrities is to stroke their ego so that more of them come over here.

I'm not interested in replicating Twitter on Mastodon but I am interested in providing viable alternatives to corporations. In the case of #SocialNetworks, that necessarily means making the alternative as entertaining as the corporate stuff (as is reasonably possible), which necessarily includes getting celebrities on here.

P.S. One e-celeb (?) I watch on YouTube said that she tried the Mastodon mobile app but when she saw that she has to pick an instance, she immediately noped out.

She misunderstood instances as walled gardens. (Of course, that's true for some instances, but) I bring it up only to underscore that even signing up is a significant point of friction for the non-technically minded. These federated social networks have a ways to go before they can compete with corporate social networks.

Day 2 of trying to install #Linux on this old laptop

I couldn't get Xubuntu's GUI to load despite some help from @lucifargundam (thanks).

#BunsenLabs ran into a partitioning problem.

Now I'm having trouble getting my live USBs to launch on the laptop and I have no OS installed. (BIOS does recognize the USB drives, at least.) Will give it until midday ...

Have been wrestling with it all night and can get neither the gdm3 nor the lightdm GUI to work with my #Xubuntu installation on this old laptop.

Tried purging, updating and reinstalling both, to no avail.

I am going to give some other #Linux distros a chance now.

#Republicans are making huge gains. Two years from now, it'll be even worse. Thank the #Democrats for their uninspired performative gerontocratic leadership.

Consider how badly they've fucked up that people still won't vote for them after losing the federal right to abortion.

@excavist Is prioritization important? I think the only time it's important is when you feel time-crunched or overwhelmed. Then, I like to write everything I have to do down. That way I don't have to keep it all in my head. And then I decide which are the one or two most important things on the list and attend to them, ignoring the rest until the most important stuff is done.

If you're not feeling harried or overwhelmed, don't worry about prioritizing. Just focus on doing your little tasks that will build up to goals. You don't have to do the little tasks in a particular order. Just get them done one by one.

Some people seem to want to use #contentWarnings for everything, I.e. as content headers instead, and others seem annoyed by that practice.

I'm trying to fit in with whatever culture was supposedly here before I arrived but there doesn't seem to be a consensus on what that culture was so

I think I'll just stick to using content warnings as warnings instead of headers. If you want them to be used as headers, get them renamed to something that doesn't have the word "warning" in it.

@excavist I think the key to making the most of planning for #ADHD brains is to make your tasks really small so you can do them effortlessly to gather momentum, confidence, experience.

Often you can break really big tasks (Run a marathon) into really small tasks (Put on trainers, go outside, walk a little or run a little, repeat and do a little more every day, until you can run the marathon). Make it as easy as possible. Make it so easy you feel silly about it. And then do that easy thing until you can do even more with the same level of minimal effort. Repeat as necessary.

That's how I went from, for example, not being able to do a single pull-up to being able to do five in a row in just four months.

By breaking things down into tiny tasks, even when you lose track thanks to your ADHD, you can get back on track really easily.

@cifvts My main interest on Twitter was following really smart political and financial experts. They won't be here for a long while, if ever. But now I get to focus on my job / industry, which is nice.

I thought a #GanttChart would help me to manage my #ADHD but the pressure of seeing my deadlines move further and further out as I fail to stick to plans paralyzes me instead.

Having my entire life charted out is the kind of existential pressure I cannot handle. Has anyone else with ADHD had success with Gantt charts? How do you use them?

What has helped me is a #toDo manager. There are many such apps out there. Go through them until you find the perfect one for you. I ultimately landed on Tusk—it has all the functionality I need and is monetized thru a sale rather than subscription model. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ulsoft.tusk

A to-do list is not going to cure your ADHD but it does help, especially if it's always with you on your phone and automatically notifies you about your responsibilities. That takes much of the organizational burden off of you and helps you to focus on simply completing tasks instead.

I disabled my Twitter account. I can overlook a lot of things but I will not let myself be lorded over by a grifting hypocrite who considers himself to be above his own rules.

@h43z [Sylvester Stallone and Sandra Bullock having infosex.gif]