Obviously Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc. are federated decentralized equivalent to their centralized counterparts, but what is the counterpart in the fediverse to TikTok? It is a dominant app for millions of people, and as far as I can tell the closest thing is Peertube, but isn’t that more of a YouTube equivalent? Does it...
The inherent problem is money. Sites that store and serve text can be very cheaply run. Sites that store and serve video are expensive. The storage and throughput demands are much higher. In order to get videos to load quickly, you need a CDN. Nobody of average means can run a TikTok clone as a hobby.
If you don’t do the important things in life you’ll die. Your genes built the dopamine system to make sure you’ll do those things. Your dopamine system doesn’t function correctly. When you do a life sustaining thing, your broken dopamine system says, “meh, that was a waste of time, don’t do that again or you’ll die. Do something that does give dopamine.”
Here’s my hack. Give your brain dopamine. Figure out the things that engage you and make you feel good. If you’re engaged and feeling good, it’s because the dopamine is flowing. I like reading, video games, TV, and interesting complex problems. Right after I do a boring task, I reward myself with some dopamine. I play a game or I work on an interesting problem. I treat my brain like a labrador. Good boy have a treat. The bigger the task the bigger the reward.
Slightly less helpful but still good is affirmations. When you do something good, take a moment to recognize it, just to yourself. “I cleaned my room, which is good. I should feel good about it.” It sounds corny, but it helps.
Since usernames are only unique to the instance it’s created on, what’s to stop someone from creating a copycat username in order to impersonate another user?
Or my favorite, “here let me show you how to use a calendar.”
Great, next maybe you could teach a blind kid to ride a bike.
Here’s me in 6th grade, reading at a college level, learning algebra, picking up coding because it’s fun, and you think the problem is that I don’t conceptually get calendars?
For those of you who weren’t diagnosed until adulthood (I’m in my late 40s), what was the diagnosis process like? Are you just given a written test, or does someone evaluate you more thoroughly? Do they try to understand your symptoms, or is it more of a checklist? If anyone has personal stories they’d be willing to share,...
A health care professional is going to ask you questions from the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). There are 9 symptoms for each kind of ADHD. If you have five of one or the other, you have ADHD. The difficult part is, everyone does these things sometimes. The question is, do you do them often, and does it have a negative impact on your life. A mental health provider is going to have more training on evaluating you than a general practitioner. When it comes down to it though, anybody can ask the questions, you have to give the answers.
I scheduled a physical with my GP and figured I’d get to take care of everything at once. Unfortunately that’s not how the helthcare system works. The doctors don’t like to combine multiple ailments into a single visit, because they can’t bill them that way. So I left with a referral to psych. I haven’t gone yet and still don’t have a diagnosis. If you’re going to go the GP route, make a specific appointment for an ADHD diagnosis. Make sure to ask beforehand if your GP feels comfortable giving the diagnosis and, if you’re interested, prescribing meds. If you don’t ask, your GP is likely to wait til after you’ve paid your copay to tell you that you’ll need to see a psych specialist.
P.S. I have dysgraphia, which was diagnosed when I was a child. To my knowledge, no professional ever diagnosed me with ADHD. I’ve tried to ask my mom about this, but she’s being cagey. She says, “we all knew you had ADHD.” I was never given medication for ADHD. The only help I got was for the dysgraphia. All this is to say, if you want to get help for another disability you will absolutely need to be proactive.
They may ask you to get other people, who are close to you but can be more objective, to answer the questions.
Have you seen Lucky Number Slevin? There’s a great scene where Ben Kingsley says, “The first time someone calls you a horse you punch him on the nose, the second time someone calls you a horse you call him a jerk but the third time someone calls you a horse, well then perhaps it’s time to go shopping for a saddle.”
I’m saddle shopping. I have an evaluation scheduled tomorrow. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Adderall 2 days in a row now makes me paranoid, and I’ve never really been able to get a doc to prescribe vyvance or anything else, and frankly at this point, I’m afraid to do stimulants. Strattera made me feel weird....
Caffeine is a stimulant. I find that after a cup of coffee I’m OK for about 4 hours. I try to schedule my focus time during the first half of the day, and then allow the second half to be research time.
While I’m working, I tend to have a list of three things I want to work on. If thing.1 stalls, I can open thing.2 and then thing.3. I can’t do more, or I’ll forget to go back to thing.1. If all three things stall, I grab a bit of dopamine via a video game or SM and then go back to thing.x where thing.importance is max.
I also have a couple of backup tasks in case I can’t work on the big three. There’s always documentation and expense reports.
Well...this might sound odd, but I've heard that balance exercises can help with ADHD symptoms. I've been riding a longboard for a while now, both for exercise and to improve my balance. I feel like I have better executive function when I work on my balance. It's been too hot lately to do much outside exercise, and I already notice I'm backsliding.
How do you define the two? There aren’t HEB owned farms or production facilities that I’m aware of. The labels in their branded stuff usually say, “Made with care for HEB.”
The Expert (www.youtube.com)
Right up there with the classic “sales guy vs web dude”.
What is the fediverse equivalent to TikTok?
Obviously Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc. are federated decentralized equivalent to their centralized counterparts, but what is the counterpart in the fediverse to TikTok? It is a dominant app for millions of people, and as far as I can tell the closest thing is Peertube, but isn’t that more of a YouTube equivalent? Does it...
why can't we have federated identity ?
Why can’t we have federated identity to login into fediverse instead of creating login for each instance?
I don't feel rewarded for anything "good" I do
Hi everyone....
What's to prevent someone from hijacking my username?
Since usernames are only unique to the instance it’s created on, what’s to stop someone from creating a copycat username in order to impersonate another user?
“hAvE YoU TrIeD MaKiNg a tO-Do lisT?” (reddthat.com)
Adult ADHD Diagnosis - what is the process like?
For those of you who weren’t diagnosed until adulthood (I’m in my late 40s), what was the diagnosis process like? Are you just given a written test, or does someone evaluate you more thoroughly? Do they try to understand your symptoms, or is it more of a checklist? If anyone has personal stories they’d be willing to share,...
For those unmedicated, how do you manage?
Adderall 2 days in a row now makes me paranoid, and I’ve never really been able to get a doc to prescribe vyvance or anything else, and frankly at this point, I’m afraid to do stimulants. Strattera made me feel weird....
Had to stop taking meds, looking for advice.
I'm posting this simply because I didn't have any other place to post it, and I'm hoping I'll get some sort of cathartic relief by doing so....
Playing n-back feels hard even with meds... What do you do to fight off mental distractions and executive dysfunction?
found a way to solve my issue by practicing meditation via n-back client, I will hopefully write down the details in my brain training sub soon
Is H‑E‑B brand products private label or do they make their own?
Or a mix of both? Seems like they’ve got something in every category....