Well, I have been “tested” by neuropsychologists and they said I have symptoms that looks like ADHD, but it’s probably not that. I never pushed more as it’s difficult to get any diagnosis or help here in Quebec as an adult. In the end they said I may have PDA, and they will not give me a straight answer.
I still consider myself nerodivergent but according to the medical system here, I don’t have ADHD. I just have a lot of symptoms that are common.
Indeed. I often have my laptop and I’m not confortable just leaving my backpack to them.
Anecdote time. While on vacation in Saint-Martin, the security guard at the grocery store in Marigot insisted that I had to leave my backpack in a secure locker at the entrance. I didn’t want to turn around, walk back to my hotel, leave the bag, and go back, so I reluctantly put it in their locker. But THEY had the key. When I was done and wanted to get my bag back, the security guard was not in sight. He eventually reappeared after a few anguishing minutes and I signalled him from afar that I wanted my bag back. He made a sign that he’d be back soon and took several more minutes to come. So I was standing in the entrance by their lockers, just looking intensely at the security guard in the store, waiting for him to give me back my bag, but he was in no fucking hurry. And while waiting for him to eventually come back, I had enough time to realize that I left money and documents in that backpack.
It’s insulting and the whole thing made me super nervous. I’m never doing that ever again.
Sorry but this is unacceptable to me. If they default to “everyone is a possible thief” then I will avoid them. It’s a horrible way to profile the customers.
I make efforts to walk or bike everywhere, be environmentally friendly, and my backpack is a big part of that. I don’t want to become friendly with the staff of random stores I go to in order for them to let me in with it. It’s already a pain that I can’t use my reusable bags or my own cart/trolley in the stores.
It just doesn’t feel welcoming. And it also seems to be a car centric culture thing, because I live in a metropolis and this “no backpack rule” is pretty rare here, whereas when I go visit friends and family in small towns this rule is everywhere. What’s different? There’s much more people in big cities walking around and shopping with a backpack, compared to a small town where everyone goes to the store with a car.
It’s reverse for me. I don’t have a car so I bring a backpack pretty much anywhere I go. And in that backpack, there’s also a reusable bag.
If stores want me to leave my backpack at the entrance, I turn around and go shopping where they don’t automatically consider you a thief for having a backpack.
Mild guess. The dev(s) don’t know about navigation buttons. Gestures have been “standard” for a while now so maybe someone forgot about this as a possibility?
It’s proprietary software and it seems doubtful the company will port it to Linux. However it seems there’s a workaround using AES67, or a reversed engineered implementation called teodly.
As someone that is using RTP to send audio from and to different Linux computers, this is unfortunately an option that is getting more difficult to use as time passes. A few years ago when pulseaudio was dominating, it was trivial to just tick a few boxes, enable RTP, see a lit of devices in pasystray, and choose it with a few clicks. Now since pipewire, this is no longer possible. Sure, RTP still works, but using the command line is now mandatory, as all the GUI options have disappeared.
I still find myself reinstalling pulseaudio on most of my computers running Linux because I need RTP audio and it’s disappointing that it’s getting harder and harder to get it to work on Linux.
I wonder if just like Brits and French, Unitedstaters emigrating elsewhere will call themselves “expats” instead of immigrants.
We, white people of the west, can go anywhere in the world for work, affordability and/or safety without considering ourselves immigrants.
Many years ago I was chatting with someone from Malmö. He was complaining how immigrants were “taking over his city”. But when I mentioned that I, a Canadian, would also like to move to Sweden, he told me it would be fine, that he would not consider me “an immigrant” because I’m from the west.
Anyway, I understand why anyone would want to leave. It’s just that it seems the vocabulary used is different for different people.
I’m going to add Sony to this list.
It’s a natural phenomenon but AFAIK it can be accentuated or accelerated by the rise of the sea level, or the passage of boats and vessels. It can be entirely normal, but it can also be provoked or worsened by other factors. And that’s why we document and do some research about it?!
I’m not a climate scientist but luckily the Wikipedia’s article on the Streisand effect has a link to coastal erosion if you want to know more.
It’s Barbara Streisand’s.
The term was coined in 2005 by Mike Masnick of Techdirt after Barbra Streisand attempted to suppress the publication of a photograph by Kenneth Adelman showing her clifftop residence in Malibu, taken to document coastal erosion in California.
I find being told to “be careful” irrationally irritating, especially when I’m on foot or on my bike and I’m told to “be very careful” before going on a road. Like, of course, if nobody told me I would have let a car hit me. Or if one hits me, it’s because I wasn’t careful enough.
I understand what people mean when they say that before going on the road, but every time my brain is just like “ok, but some it I can’t control”.
Electric mucus is such an elegant colour.
Check out The Lounge or Convos if you are willing to use a web client. They display history, images on channels, allow uploads, preview URLs and have push notifications.
Some drug traffickers can be condemned and pardoned. Some presumed drug traffickers in other countries must be assassinated in the name of national security.
They’re still killing a few billion other animals yearly, just not whales.
Yeah, about that.
My province just had a very dry summer with very low water levels. Some wells dried up.
At some point farmers were wondering how they would be watering their crops if it got any worse.
Or what about flash flooding, either on flat ground, or in mountain towns? Or wild fires?
There’s certainly places safer than others, but a lot more people are going to be affected than just coastal inhabitants.
Torrenting a song from cassette? From what specific era should that be? You forgot Napster, Kazaa, and IRC.