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Sure, but I interpreted "reduced symptoms" to mean an overall reduction in the symptoms normally experienced by that person. Maybe that's not what they describe in the study but it's how I initially read the headline and it feels accurate to my situation.

When I hyperfocus, I generally don't experience a lot of the other issues I usually do, such as lack of attention, constant multitasking, analysis paralysis, etc. I feel more motivated to do a particular thing and, at the end of a day of doing that, I do generally feel more productive.

I have siblings that are 12 and 10 years older than me and they had my same experience, but okay.

When I'm in the zone (hyperfocusing), I can stay awake for 20+ hours doing something. But just because I'm not experiencing symptoms doesn't mean I'm totally fine, lol. It's incredibly stressful to keep up with the demands I make of myself even when I'm able to do it.

I mean... I'm 29 and grew up being told that everything my parents enjoyed would literally never be a reality for me. I was 14 when the economy crashed in 2008 and 17 when gas prices first started spiking and never went down. I had to take out a $40k loan just for 1 year of university when my parents had the chance to graduate nearly debt-free and use their summer jobs to qualify for a mortgage.

Maybe you're thinking of Gen X or something, because I really wouldn't consider 1995-2015 (roughly the time when Millennials were coming of age) a golden era.

A cold plunge is essentially an ice water bath for a human. It's not food.

Unfortunately, reading the specs for a tech product is mandatory. A single sentence in a preview will never tell you everything you need to know; this was an expensive lesson for you. I'd like to second the recommendation for a Brother laser printer.

Yeah, same here, that's why I specified that they're only nice when they work. Often they just don't work, so Flatpak is better.

Damn, alright haha, I completely missed that news. Good for them.

I think I've landed on Flatpak as my favourite between Snap, Flatpak, and AppImage. AppImage, when it works, is nice though. Snaps are just kind of inconvenient (auto-updates are a no for me) and bloated and the things Canonical are doing as an organization put a bad taste in my mouth.

So if I already use K-9 Mail, should I bother? Does anything set it apart yet?

This gives me Matilda vibes. The floating deer fits right in.

I think this one is more difficult than it sounds.

I think that teens and kids are going to kill themselves because of this regardless of how difficult you think it sounds. I was a trans teen and waiting until I was 18 caused me to attempt suicide. Sure, it was only once, but I could have succeeded if I hadn't chickened out and didn't have a therapist at the time. Maybe TMI, but these discussions need to be had, as you say.

Also, puberty blockers are reversible at any time.

Cool, more teen suicides. Probably even pre-teens.

Brave uses their own search index, so they are quite literally trying to do that.

In Ontario, Canada people can opt in when renewing their health card (a card used to access public healthcare) or driver's license, and it probably does positively impact the rate of opting in, but it really doesn't seem to address the need. I've been a registered organ donor since I was 16, but most people I've brought it up with aren't.

I suppose if choosing an option is mandatory instead of voluntary then that would change things for the better. Is that what Germany is doing?

I think this post is alluding to the results of the US election and asserting that (at least part of) the reason is that many people decided not to vote.

Related to people's tendency to do nothing when faced with the need to opt in is the status quo bias—the tendency to do nothing when faced with making a decision.

For what it's worth, I agree with you. Most telecom infrastructure funding has been historically pocketed. There is a chance it does work, though.

If not, maybe the tariffs will help in the short term by minimizing profit from overseas supply chains and incentivize American manufacturing, causing a positive effect on the sector in concert with CHIPS (but I doubt it).

Oh, the thing Trump called "so bad" on Joe Rogan a couple weeks ago? He said that tariffs are his preferred strategy to force companies to build in the US. Maybe that was just rhetoric and you can't trust it, but he did say it.

As it stands, CHIPS isn't going anywhere, so at least Americans won't be totally fucked.

I don't know anything about Jellyfin as a user but I've heard from others Jellyfin and Emby are ready to compete with Plex on a level playing field. Not sure if it's an exaggerated hype or not. :P

Plex is fine as a whole, it just handles my music library kind of clunkily and doesn't have much support for organization or dynamic playlists. It's obviously meant more for movies and shows and that's why Plexamp exists (which I don't use).

Whenever I posted on /r/Plex on Reddit, people would comment that I should use another player, but that place is a cesspool with dedicated Plex haters; it's so weird. Plex does function as a music player, it's just a bit unfocused (design-wise) and bloated.

When I don't want to boot up Plex I use mocp, a terminal-based music player, so I'm not in need of a fancy player like Deadbeef, Strawberry, Audacious, MediaMonkey, Musicbee, etc. but they do offer more to the user than Plex does.