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Cake day: January 25th, 2025

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  • To be fair, Internet grumblings on Reddit were actually a good starting point for me. The first, most important step, was learning that ADHD existed as something much more than just the wild child that’s bouncing off the walls.

    Then I started seeking out people with ADHD sharing their experiences (and, of course, memes), and I was shaken by how much some of them resonated with me. There were habits, fidgets, quirks I had that I had never seen or heard of anyone else doing that turned out to be common with ADHD.

    To your point, yes, there were and still are plenty of people recklessly and inappropriately linking everything to ADHD or promoting harmful misinformation, which is why I purposely stuck with reading personal perspectives and not “authoritative” statements. Even so, I kept seeing more and more things that perfectly described me and I finally felt seen. Which led me to looking into professional research about ADHD that ended up explaining even more of my entire life, in turn pushing me to finally seek a diagnosis.

    All that to say there are some good resources on the US side. You just have to be willing to dig through mountains of dog shit–and recognize that it’s dog shit in the first place–to find the occasional nugget.


  • I’m waiting for Ol’ Pete to lay down a policy directive determining that those of us on stimulants, anxiety meds, antidepressants, etc. are unfit for military service. I’ll gladly take medical retirement with full benefits for life because of some Adderall. Good luck manning Cyber and Intel.






    • ARMS
    • Big Brain Academy: Brains Vs. Brain
    • Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
    • Game Builder Garage
    • New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
    • Pokémon Scarlet & Pokémon Violet
    • Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury
    • Super Mario Odyssey
    • The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
    • The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening

    So Pokemon is finally getting the patch it needs just to function properly. It’s just tied to a $400 console.

    The majority of the Switch 2’s marketing has focused on ports and upgrades for old games. Which a Steam Deck still does better. And at least Valve won’t brick my system when their profit margin is threatened.


  • I had a long, exhausting conversation with my father-in-law last week where my son and I both had to explain to him the basic fundamentals of what science actually is, how the scientific method works, and why and how the NSF awards grants.

    We also kept having to explain that just because there’s some junk science put out by bad actors to line up with an agenda, that doesn’t mean all science is junk. We also, also, kept having to explain that there isn’t some “the government” conspiracy manipulating all science behind the scenes to push out things that will kill us (that’s good old capitalism, baby!)

    AND the fact that science rarely gives you a hard, definite answer one way or the other because it’s not meant to. And that continuously changing scientific consensus is not only a good thing, but that’s how it’s supposed to work.

    AND! why the Joe Rogan thought process of “every conclusion is equally as valid regardless of evidence or actual knowledge” is not only invalid but incredibly dangerous, and further explaining the idea of the hierarchy of evidence, and that individual people are not sources, even if they’re a PhD at Harvard or Stanford.

    All that to say he stills sees this as a great thing. Because Fox News and Newsmax.




  • A couple years ago my in-laws were downsizing after retiring and they asked if I would possibly have any use for their ancient desktop PC (at least old enough to have shipped with Windows 7).

    I installed Debian on it and it’s running Jellyfin, qBittorrent through Gluetun, Calibre-web, NextCloud, and Pi-Hole containers, with plenty of room to spare. I’ve also got some services running on Raspberry pis (back when they were cheap). And an external 4TB hard drive connected to it acting as a NAS. No hardware transcoding or 4K video on Jellyfin but that’s no big deal for me.

    All that to say yes, you can absolutely self-host on repurposed hardware. Any old PC you’re looking at is no doubt newer than mine.