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navjack27

730 karma · joined April 16, 2017

I'm not into founder VC culture at all. I'm a nerd. I'm disabled. I collect SSI. I only get ~$12,386 a year plus food stamps that i live off of.

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navjack27··on 25% of Adults Suspect Undiagnosed ADHD
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navjack27··on 25% of Adults Suspect Undiagnosed ADHD
You know what's a really ADHD oppositional Defiant disorder thing? I was diagnosed when I was two and all of this rapid new diagnosis and people wanting to be diagnosed now is making me want to not be diagnosed anymore extremely badly. I can't help it. It's my gut impulse reaction to not want to be associated with this thing that everyone wants to be associated with. It's annoying. ( The it's annoying part is my reaction ( Meaning that I am annoyed that this is my reaction. ), not the fact that others are being diagnosed by the way. )

I'm glad a majority of people are actually getting help with this. Don't get me wrong. But it's just something I've noticed inside my head since this has been going on and becoming more and more of a thing over the past 5 years.

Edit: Sure love getting downvoted because I'm speaking about my own subjective experience in life as of recently. You think I don't know with 36 years of experience about my own mental facilities and I'm not growing every single day of my life learning more about myself. I know ADHD isn't a oppositional defiant disorder, but I know what I'm saying, okay?

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I doubt they can reason let alone create wholly original works.
navjack27··on Ask HN: Is write access to hard drives less powerful than read access?
I'm unsure what you mean by, quote, just write, and quote, just read.
navjack27··on You Might Be a Late Bloomer
http://archive.today/uAxUM
navjack27··on Good bye Arc Broswer Your Killing My M1 MBP
You know what's really funny? The best web browser that I've used on my M1 Mac Mini, with eight gigs of RAM And the smallest hard drive that they offered because it was the cheapest model, Microsoft Edge. Safari is neigh unusable now, and I refuse to touch anything that Mozilla makes because they are a horrible, stupid company these days. But I use Microsoft Edge on my Windows PC and I use Microsoft Edge on my Mac and I have zero issues. It's not memory hungry. It's perfect. The only thing I change is in the advanced configuration to disable the curved inner edges or rounded edges or whatever it's called.

I use this computer all day with the web browser open all day. I play media in it all day through the web browser and nothing ever really goes to swap like maybe 200 megabytes throughout a week. I could open up VS Code just fine Or Xcode just fine and do stuff in that at the same time.

While people are debating if eight gigs is bad or good or 16 gigs is bad or good, I'm just gonna sit here saving money because I don't need to buy a new device.

Disable seri and spotlight while you're at it too BTW. That helps a ton.

navjack27··on Show HN: Conductor – A Simple Desktop Video and Image Converter for macOS
Clever name. Handbrake... Conductor.
navjack27··on Ask HN: Do your friends and family use ChatGPT?
My dad uses the Google ones quite often. Summarization and then validation afterwards is what he usually does. For emails or other things like that.
navjack27··on How long til we're all on Ozempic?
Wow...

  instead of ever more metabolic and mentally ill society living more like zombies than free human beings.
Literally just wow. What possesses you to say such a horrible thing?
navjack27··on Ask HN: Who is using immutable OSes?
As far as I understand, the correct way to use an immutable operating system is to run containers or virtual machines on it and don't do anything with the base operating system.

Maybe if you need to go out of your way to install proprietary Nvidia drivers if they don't include it or something like that is the most you should do.

Correct me if I'm wrong though.

navjack27··on Windows 11's big 2024 update leaves behind 9GB of undeletable files
Well, that sounds like a work laptop, so you shouldn't really be doing much of anything personal on it except for work. If you have drive space problems, then talk to your work.
navjack27··on Windows 11's big 2024 update leaves behind 9GB of undeletable files
I'm sorry, but literally do not do this Unless you eventually want a seriously borked up Windows install.
navjack27··on The true cost of game piracy: 20 percent of revenue, according to a new study
More beautiful words have never been said.
navjack27··on The true cost of game piracy: 20 percent of revenue, according to a new study
But what about the numbers for when a game company's agreement with Denuvo ends? I pirate initially when cracked and then if I like the game and have the money I buy when the publisher removes the DRM. I mean, heck, you get so much better of an Experience when you pirate a game because the DRM isn't impacting performance and a lot of the time you get all of the DLC and pre-order bonuses too.
navjack27··on Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31M users
Assholes. That's all I got to say. Why the heck attack such a loved institution that does so much good for people???
navjack27··on Ask HN: How to see Netflix in a browser in Android?
I'm not really sure why you would want that aside from curiosity. Going out of the app would as far as I understand limit your ability to watch Netflix at anything higher than 1080p (maybe 4K) and no HDR if the device in question has the capability. It's stupid DRM stuff but the best way to watch most streaming DRM content is on a trusted device through the app because that's the only way they allow it anymore for you to get the highest quality version of whatever is there. Can't even do it on a desktop computer running Windows 11 and an RTX 4090 in a web browser as far as I know but you could definitely do it on a Roku Smart TV from TCL from 2019 where the system on a chip seems like it shouldn't even be capable of decoding a 4K HEVC or AV1 HDR stream but hey this is the world we live in and I'm completely off topic to your question at this point.
navjack27··on Cassie LaBelle: "eBay completely destroyed my life"
I'm sorry, but your post is so hard to read with this formatting where you seem to refuse to put spaces after commas.

I'm sure you are saying something mostly relevant here but please; for people's perception of your intelligence sake and the accessibility of people trying to understand you, format better.

navjack27··on Cassie LaBelle: "eBay completely destroyed my life"
While I completely disagree with a full ban for selling a antique pill press I also disagree with selling an antique pill press. Donate that to a museum of medical history or something instead of trying to profit from an antique pill press. You don't know who you are selling it to and you can't trust who you are selling it to via eBay (pill presses are restricted on eBay antique or not) isn't going to divert that to someone who is going to attempt to try to use it for illicit means.
navjack27··on Ask HN: Why do YouTube movie reviews reveal like/dislike in video thumbnail?
Possibly because the headline doesn't matter and what matters is the context around the conclusion of the review which is why you would watch the video...

Furthermore the thumbnail itself sparks engagement because somebody could see that thumbnail and immediately want to click on it to comment that they are wrong/right to like or dislike.

navjack27··on Roblox: Inflated Key Metrics for Wall Street and a Pedophile Hellscape for Kids
I am absolutely against the whole "oh won't somebody please think of the children!?" mentality... But the Roblox situation is simply "oh won't somebody please think!?".

This is either:

the Nazi bar problem brought to its logical conclusion.

Greed and ignorance.

Or somebody high up in the company is really into this stuff...

Or something else I can't even fathom.

navjack27··on Gmail Solved the "Impossible" Problem
I love seeing that old Gmail look. It's so much more usable.
navjack27··on I'm 13 and built an OpenAI o1-like AI model – would love your feedback
All I got to say is I'm highly highly impressed if that 13-year-old claim is true. You could be using your own AI stuff to be polishing up your writing a little bit but even then the maturity that's on display here and the attitude you have is amazing.

Go on and do amazing things!

navjack27··on Unreal GitHub Actions
Heh, it's pretty easy to build UE5 locally. Download visual studio whatever the newest version is and then install the extensions using the visual studio installer for unreal engine game making and then it will automatically pick all of the dependencies and then just clone the repo and run the CMD files and then it builds the project file and then open that up in visual studio and then click build...
navjack27··on Ask HN: Quality ad-free audio content for kids?
Get a bunch of old VHS tapes from the 90s and just use that. A kid that young listening to podcasts seems so frigging weird. Read a book to them? Do they still make those books where you press a button and it makes animal sounds? Put up a basketball hoop outside?
navjack27··on NotebookLM Podcast Hosts Discover They're AI
Very good! Loved it
navjack27··on OS/2 expert channeled a higher power to dispel digital doom vortex
That is a really good one it got a chuckle out of me.
navjack27··on Gorhill to Stop Supporting uBlock Origin Lite Addon for Firefox
Mozilla as a whole has other interests in mind. it's okay, no one needs them.
navjack27··on Watching TV with the Second-Party: A First Look at Automatic Content Recognitio
I am really surprised that this isn't higher up in here. I know people have suspected this to be a thing or have known this to be a thing but just seeing it confirmed with graphs and that it even works with HDMI connected is going to make me work a little bit on my router today just to make sure things are set up right still.
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