If there’s someone you trust, have them fill out the questions about you.

Theres a list of things that they ask to figure out if you have ADHD. If you have like 8 out of thirteen things you have ADHD. Pay attention to the qualifiers though. To the extent that your life is negatively impacted, and in comparison to your peers. Everyone loses their car keys and wallet sometimes, people with ADHD lose everything all the time, and it’s a hindrance to their everyday life. People who know you comment on your propensity to lose things. Everyone hates the tedious parts of their jobs, people with ADHD lose their job because they can’t do tedious things.

It may also be helpful to think about the things we can do. People with ADHD can access the expensive creative part of their brain and the detail oriented task focused part at the same time. This gives us the ability to think creatively while doing a task. There’s also hyper-focus, the ability to focus on just one thing for extended periods. When the two abilities combine, you can slip into a flow state that can be very productive.

My Mom was a teacher. Her opinion was that bad teachers with poor classroom management skills were causing ADD hysteria. In a way she was right. I didn’t have discipline issues, so nobody at school pushed for me to get treatment. I had this story about myself. I was lazy and apathetic. That’s why I had trouble doing homework. That’s why I failed out of college. As an adult, realizing that I suffered from untreated ADHD, that my life could have been easier…its hard. Coming to terms with the injury that our parents inevitably cause is uncomfortable. I try to remember that fallibility is the human condition. I know I’m making mistakes with my son. I just hope that I’m getting more right than I get wrong.

The backups are on a separate system with different credentials. One copy of the backups is sent to online storage that is immutable. You set a retention policy and then you can’t delete, overwrite, or change the backups.

MeBurger!

What community did you think you were responding to?

Windows Server Fail-over Cluster

Imagine having your morning coffee in a nice warm bath…shudders.

Bullshit. Not Science.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8099405/

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2018/04/analysis-finds-strong-consensus-effectiveness-gender-transition-treatment

That’s an important and valid concern. What if the community federation could allow mods on your instance to ban users from other instances? You’d not see that user’s posts or comments when viewing a community from your instance. The downside is that your mods would have more work.

OP didn’t say force. OP specifically said allow.

This is a really good idea. Multi-instance communities would not just provide content redundancy, but also some load balancing. Each multi-instance community would become it’s own little CDN. Duplicating the data across instances does pose a problem of bloat, but I think the benefits outweigh the risks.

Dopamine is the get-shit-done neurotransmitter. Our brain’s dopamine system is broken. Normies complete a task and get a satisfying feeling of accomplishment, that’s dopamine. You complete a task and get nothing. When you did those tasks before, and got no dopamine, your brain labeled them as useless. Your brain is literally telling you that doing nothing is better than the tasks you need to do. Better to be lazy and save calories for important tasks. You’re not procrastinating, that’s something normies do, you won’t ever do those things. You’re not putting off an unpleasant task, you’re conditioned not to do them.

You need to condition your brain to expect a reward when you complete a task. Figure out what things do give you dopamine, and reward your brain with them.

Clean the house - play video games for 15 minutes.

Do laundry - 15 minutes on social media.

I’ve had varying results combining activities, like cleaning while listening to my favorite podcasts.

It also helps me to spend a moment being mindful of the results of the task. “Look how much better this room is now that it’s clean. I’m proud of myself for accomplishing this task.” It sounds dumb but it works.

I try not to beat myself up about it. I remind myself that everyone has off days, and everyone deserves some R&R.

Palo Alto would do what you want. PA410 or 420 would probably do for your ships. They’re not at all rated for harsh conditions, but they’re about as robust as you’ll find for basic network gear. If you get a PA for the home office as well, you can use their SDWAN for connecting everything.

For switching…how many ports do you need on each ship? I’m using Unifi industrial switches in our manufacturing plants. They stand up to the Texas summers in a highly alkaline environment. They’re only ten ports though (8 poe).

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Firstly, SysAdmin is great for people with ADHD. It’s neutral for Autism, no better or worse than other tech fields.

Secondly, what you’re looking for is an entry level helpdesk type job. It’ll likely pay ~$20/hr. You don’t need any experience at all to land this job. You’ll need to do that for 2-3 years and then you’ll be ready for jr. SysAdmin. Your associates goes partway, but you’d need some certifications to get a foot in the door. The CompTIA certs are a good place to start. M365 certs are good too. Look at Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert.

You’ll want to know the basics of computing before the interview. Here’s a list of things I ask, if you can give me a coherent answer on even a few, you make it past the first interview:

What are the basic components of a PC? Explain the difference between RAM and storage? What’s an SSD? What’s RAID? What does DHCP do? What does DNS do? What’s a subnet? How does a subnet mask work? What’s the difference between routing and switching? How does a MAC address work?

I have to be honest, I’d be wary of hiring a trans person, only because the people I work for are very conservative. I’d worry that the workplace would be uncomfortable for you and that you’d be happier somewhere else. That said, if you were the best candidate for the job, and actually wanted to work with us dumb rednecks, I’d hire you anyway.

I have a carbon steel wok that I love.

I tried to buy a BifL non-stick pan and found that it doesn’t exist. Everything marketed as non-stick has some coating that will wear off and become useless. “But what about {brand that says it’s not PTFE, PFOA, or PFAS}?” Yep them too. Look up sol-gel non-stick coating if you have ceramic non-stick. If you don’t want to have to buy pans over and over again, you have to go stainless, cast iron or carbon steel. Cast iron enamelware is pretty good too, but isn’t really non-stick. I’m in the process of finding stainless/cast-iron replacements for all my non-stick pans.

Dinner tonight was one of my favorite meals, BFMC. Bread, fruit, meat, cheese. A loaf of fresh bread, a hunk of tasty cheese, a little bit of cured meat like salami, and some fruit. If you want to get fancy you can add some nuts and olives.