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> So, consider yourself lucky you don't already need stimulants to get by.

I wish that were the case, I've been heavily "abusing" Redbull and Claritan-D (non-drowsey with sudafed, I found this helped purely by accident a few years ago) for years just so I can barely function enough to hold down a job. It's probably part of why my blood pressure is so bad in the first place.

I have to put literally all the energy I have into work, by the time 1700 rolls around I have no energy left to give for anything, I just crash. Most nights even getting supper is a huge ordeal, much less anything else.

Non-stimulant drugs might be an viable option, I haven't inquired about that yet, but I intend too.

I apreciate you giving a small window into what the medication has been like for you. How it would affect me and how I'd change on it has been one of my main concerns should I somehow actually get perscribed anything. At this point I'd try anything because the older I get the less sustainable this all becomes.

> you'd be allowed to bring it with you back to Canada, right?

You’d never be able to get a foreign prescription filled in Canada, federal and provincial regulations forbid that. Brining medicine back would be fine, but then you can’t get more without an expensive flight again.

If I lived near the US border I’d just get an American doctor and get prescriptions filled in America, but I’m nowhere even remotely close to the border.

No. I take my vacation days, but I never take a “vacation”. I always stay home or close to home, I don’t like travelling unless I need to.

The last time I lost internet for an extended time (my cable got dug up) made me an anxious mess for weeks.

> If you're lucky enough to be able to spend copious amounts of time online, good for you.

I am not the lucky one, you are. My life is a sick joke, meanwhile you by all traditional measures have it made if you have all that.

If I didn't have my job I'd have literally nothing going for me. When I say this has cost me oppertunites I don't mean small ones, I mean even things like potential relationships. Everything has always come second to this issue.

No, that's impossible. I live in a Canadian province where the provincial healthcare situation is very, very bad.

There are no private doctors and private psychiatrists are not legally allowed to perscribe. ADHD medication is controlled so only NPs, GPs, and (I think) psychologists are permitted to write a script for it.

Basically there are no options for me except the ones I have already taken, short of moving to a different province thousands of kilometers away.

I had to fill out a huge document (30 pages) going over my childhood and adult life, issues I face(d), and all kinds of other little things, as well as some multiple choice assesments. My mother had to fill out another set of documents (10 pages) about me. They required any and all report cards I had as a kid.

I had to get that all together and done before I went, because the clinic is a 2.5 hour drive meaning it wasn't practical to spend a ton of time there.

The actual clinic time consisted of an interview that took ~2 hours and seveal tests. The only test I remember clearly was something called the CPT test, because I thought what they were asking me to do was actually impossible (don't press the X when it's shown).

After that I had a follow up virtual call a few weeks later to discuss the results and they provided me with a document about all the testing, results, and steps going forward. In their own words I have "severe inattentive ADHD".

My main issue is if you know exactly what to tell them of course you'll be diagnosed, it's not like a physical issue that you can't fake. Someone seeking a diagnoses just for drugs could easily have gotten it. Additionally it was a private clinic and I worry there was some incentive for them to provide the result they thought the client wanted.

I'm not the GP, so I don't get to make that call. If they say no that's the end of the story. It's frustrating, but ultimatly just how it is.

There's no possibility of a second opinion either because I'm really damn lucky to even have access to a GP, the waiting list for one is ~3-4 years long right now if you don't already have one.

Extensions don't work as I can disable them too easily. Even router level restrictions are too easy for me to bypass, it takes all of a few seconds.

The only thing that has ever provided me mild success was locking my devices in my gun cabinet after a certian time of day. It was easy to get them out, but it took long enough that I could at least reconsider.

I was only able to matinain that a week or two before falling into old habbits. Inevitabily I'll have a particularly bad day at work and any progress will go out the window as I look for comfort/a distraction.

I actually do have an (adult) ADHD diagnosis, though I've always been a bit sceptical of it. It seemed too easy to get and I really didn't think the testing criteria were very good.

I have wanted to try medicine to see if it helps me at all, but I've never been able to do so. My GP was willing to perscribe me something, but decided my BP was too high and that was that.

There are definitely anxiety issues at play as well, but I don't know to what degree.

> "If I don't quit this, then I'll never do X.. and my life amounts to nothing"

I've thought this a lot and honestly? I retreat back into the internet so I can forget about it/put it out of mind for a bit longer.

Same nonsense on Facebook. It’s all payday loans, crypto scams, and magic mushrooms.

People say it’s based on your history, but I don’t buy that as none of what it shows me is even slightly relevant. It just seems like they don’t have enough relevant ads to show, so they throw shit at the wall.

It only takes one bad experience to cross the hurdle of installing another browser. I had to download chrome because Teams didn’t want to work in FF and I’ve found myself using it more since.

This has always been my real issue with Gemini. Gopher is useful on all computers I own and actually makes retro computers more useful with the services available on it.

Gemini’s TLS requirement prevents access by a of machines that could benefit from it.

Why must it fix a problem?

Exactly this, someone shared a project they thought was cool and that they thought others might find cool as well.

The hostility displayed towards an open source project in this submission is completely excessive just because it doesn't meet the requirements of many/most users. I'd feel awful if I were the creator of it and read the comments here, which are being extremely harsh about what is otherwise a very nice little project.

Personally I find it very useful, but I'm the type of person who would.

It's a project that offers support via IRC, the average internet customer/consumer is not the target user base.

Not where I live, in rural Nova Scotia almost everyone has one if not for primary heat, than for when the power inevitably goes out.

People here are not well off and wood is hands down the cheapest heating option. In other places? Maybe it’s a fad/trend.

I have a heat pump and a wood stove in my house. The heat pump doesn’t do as good of a job, but it keeps one from freezing and it really shines in the summer at cooling the house.

Heat wise the wood stove is much nicer. I can’t quantify why, but the quality of heating feels completely different and I’d much rather use it.

Additionally as someone who has used a heat pump in -25C I dispute the claims they work well in the cold with personal experience. If I hadn’t had backup heat I’d have been way, way too cold as it didn’t heat acceptably at that temperature.

You have to enable gopher in its preferences, I assume the same is true for http.

You don't, you do what most of us do and suffer through it, coming out more bitter and broken on the other side. :)

You can build a device to do this yourself over a serial port.

https://maker.pro/pcb/projects/make-uart-cassette-tape-inter...

The question remains, why not just do those things on the moon instead? It makes almost infinitely more sense when compared to mars.

I'm doing well in my programming career and a house in the majority of Canada is completely unattainable unless one partners up, or moves somewhere absolutely dreadful, which is the option I took and now regret.

Maybe this is true in America, but many of us don't live there despite a desire to do so.

Edit: Not worth commenting on this when I'm already getting accused of bad things. Sorry folks, but apparently wanting companies like CF regulated is too controversial.

Things will get worse.

I'm not him, but the older I get the worse I see interactions with social media getting, so I don't think anyone is going to outgrow it.

When people start ignoring their children in favour of social media (something I've witnessed many times with people I know) I don't think there's much hope coming back from that point.

Find meaning? A whole lot of younger people (myself included) don't believe there is such a thing at all. As I enter my 30s I'm more convinced than ever "meaning" is a nonsense concept.

I am sure one could accuse me of being immature because of my view on this, but that simply isn't the case. My adolescence was unfortunately cut short, not extended.

> what's the point in living?

I've been trying to answer this for years now, but I have never found one I find satisfactory.

Back when more people smoked you'd see smokers congregate and chat while smoking, often smoke breaks would be coordinated. It still happens, but less often because fewer smoke, especially in professional environments.

That said it's pretty rare I ever see a single smoker off by themselves, unless they've gone out of their way to be alone.

Given that ChromeOS uses Linux under the hood? I'd argue yes it does count. Even if they don't access Linux mode/Linux VMs they are still using a Linux system.

> Year of Linux desktop!

After buying a chromebook a month ago I am completely convinced this came a few years ago and no one paid any attention as it wasn't the vision they had of the Linux desktop.

I was blown away by how nice ChromeOS is to use, how seamless everything is, and how well Crostini (I think it's called this) works at running Linux programs. ChromeOS is honestly the single best Linux experience I have ever had.