I hated taking ADHD meds (Adderall etc) as a kid. They made me feel emotions that I knew weren't my own. For the first hour after taking the meds I'd feel euphoric. Around midday I'd start getting a headache, and around 3 I'd get really quiet. I got all existential about it. I felt like a different person when on meds but not in a good way. I kept wondering which one was the real me.

After trying all the different stimulants available at the time I concluded I'd rather live with ADHD than suffer the side effects of the meds. Now I'm on another med that was supposed to treat my ADHD. It doesn't, but It works great as an antidepressant so I keep taking it anyway.

Can’t help you with music but I share your frustration when it comes to being suckered into consuming AI slop. My entire adult life, text to speech has been a constant part of my day, so I pride myself on being able to sniff out when the person talking isn’t a person.

Even with these AI voices I’ll eventually catch an odd stutter or wonky prosody, but it may take a good minute or more of listening, and when I do figure it out I feel like I’ve been scammed.

If someone is unfamiliar with Japanese and Mandarin, they're not going to be able to readily distinguish the two in writing. They don't know, for example, that Japanese intersperses the Kanji with Kana, while Mandarin uses the hanzi logograms exclusively. But Chinese characters are very distinct from Latin or other Western writing systems, so if they see a sample containing Hanzi/Kanji, they'll jump to whatever they're familiar with.

I imagine a Chinese person with little to no exposure to Western writing would easily mistake French and English because they share so many words, even though they're not closely related (Romance vs Germanic).

No proof of this but I suspect it started with Twitter as a way to get around the character limit. Yes the accessibility or lack thereof is frustrating.

The Reddit APIcolypse of 2023. I came crawling back to Reddit a few weeks ago though. Lemmy doesn't have the size to support the kind of niches that Reddit has, and Reddit has a much broader user base as well, so conversations are more interesting because I can't predict what 80% of the responses to any topic will be.

Importantly, they tend to fly private aircraft, which I have recently learned are not as safe as commercial airliners. Commercial flights are subject to countless safety checks and have redundancies for days.

The titan sub failed in part because stockton Rush (I couldn’t think of a more posh name if I tried) assumed the similarly impeccable record of submarines was due to something other than scrupulous safety margins.

This is why I hate Lemmy sometimes. "It's wrong to wish people dead, except for 'them'. 'They' are fare game." It's the same BS we've been doing for the whole history of our miserable species.

Because I like the idea of Lemmy and the fediverse, so I hang on despite its issues.

I get what you're saying but I think your analogy kinda backfired, at least on me specifically. For a good 20 years there was this unused plot of land near me that we played around in as kids, but it eventually got turned into a municipal pocket park, and now instead of just teens smoking there are kids playing on the playground, people playing various sports, jogging and cycling on the track, grilling at the pavilions. I still use it, too, just in a different way from when I was a kid.

But in the above case the community gained tremendously from the change. Reddit going public, especially all the stuff it did to get there like the APIcolypse, is only making the experience worse. That's enshittification. The users give stuff up without getting anything in return. All the extra ads aren't paying for new features, in fact they're taking them away. I would have gone crazy for the JSON (interface? API? IDK the correct term) but didn't know it existed until the announcement that they killed it a few days ago. They also got rid of private messages and (really petty IMO) subscriber counts on the old site.

it works in the browser but I keep getting 403's when trying with cURL or Python requests or Powershell. My usual goto of spoofing my browser's user agent in the header doesn't work either.

Yes, but this is just the cherry on top of a steaming turd sundae of other issues I have with Lemmy that I won't rehash again here. It's not like my complaining will change anything anyway.

Compare these reactions to the Ubisoft subreddit, which granted are going to skew fanward. On /r/games the conversation seems to be mixed, with a few dancing on his grave, most expressing dismay at his death while still acknowledging the harm he did to the company and industry as a whole. Plenty of people are simply discussing the dangers of small aircraft.

It's already hard enough for self-hosters and small online communities to deal with spam from fleshbags, now we're being swarmed by clankers. I have a little Mediawiki to document my deranged maladaptive daydreams worldbuilding and conlanging projects, and the only traffic besides me is likely AI crawlers.

I hate this so much. It's not enough that huge centralized platforms have the network effect on their side, they have to drown our quiet little corners of the web under a whelming flood of soulless automata.

knowing absolutely nothing about this topic and assuming the statement is legit, I assume the reason why is because you want incoming light to hit the surface at a lower angle to create more shadows and make the topography stand out more.

Kingdom Hearts. Goofy and Sephiroth in the same room together breaks my brain, and not in a fun way. I played the first game when it came out on PS2 and decided it wasn’t for me.

I’ve seen story breakdowns of the other games on YouTube and figured I’m not missing anything. Lots of setups and plot hooks that don’t go anywhere or go somewhere stupid.

I actually didn't like it very much. Had to dig it out of a drawer for this photo. The face buttons are in an awkward position and the left trackpad is a terrible D-pad substitute. But I loved the gyro, and if it didn't invent grip buttons it was my first exposure to them at least, and both MS and Nintendo liked them, too, since the Xbox elite controller and switch 2 pro controller have them. I saw the potential and looked forward to Valve improving it, and by all accounts this new iteration is an improvement.

I'm also a sucker for mold-breaking attempts at better ergonomics. I own a Twiddler. Still can't get the hang of it, but nothing ventured nothing gained.

I'm blind (the device in back with the Freedom Scientific logo is an assistive magnifier). Both cooking and sewing are common skills taught in rehab centers for the newly blind, and soldering has aspects of both, being mindful of something very very hot near your hands, and having a certain amount of dexterity.

Here's what I did to build up confidence. I bought a bunch of perf board and resistors and I just started soldering the resistors to the perf board, that's it. No goal other than to practice soldering. I had tried one of those beginner's first electronics kits off Amazon, the ones with just an LED and a switch or whatever. I got discouraged because I messed up. So I figured if I didn't actually try to make something, I could relax and focus on soldering technique. I was eventually able to solder header pins onto a Raspberry pi zero and even terminate a coax cable, and now I can say I replaced a GB cart battery.

As a blind computer user I'm shocked at how many people forget touch typing exists. I learned earlier than most, by necessity, and didn't have to take the then-mandatory keyboarding classes in middle school.

Very few blind people have no vision at all, and many, including myself, have sufficient vision to see what's on the TP. Otherwise, the friction as you wipe is a decent indicator, and if you're not sure you can just make a few more passes.

It’s lead free solder. I think that affects how the joints look.

When I was little I had my parents read to me from the Mario 3 instruction manual before going to bed.

Manuals were necessary because the games back then couldn't fit a tutorial and, especially in the Atari days, the art didn't always get across what was going on.

I too had my nose in the manual on the ride home. My parents had a rule that we couldn't bring portable game systems (Game Gear in my case) on "short" car rides, so I'd sometimes bring a manual to look at.

I recommend Tunic if you're nostalgic for game manuals

Regarding the text of the OP, that sense of discovery is gone now. The internet has ruined it. All the secrets get posted online within the first week, and there's a wiki up in short order spoiling it for future players.