In a splendid moment of #ADHD fuckery, I've just noticed something in my Notes from 3 years ago; a checklist of 15 questions about my experience of ADHD that was going around Twitter that I had every intention of answering and releasing as a podcast.
I answered two questions then promptly forgot all about it...
@aral Shit like this is the real reason that Linux has never hit the mainstream the way the users keep complaining it should have.
macOS is popular because Apple (try to) make sure that everything is polished. Linux needs an official distro that’s obsessively well put together that all the others can hang off of. And yeah, I get how that kinda goes against the FOSS ethos.
Just booted up a shitty Windows 10 PC I have at work for training. I had to dismiss two pages begging me to turn on OneDrive, then a third page popped up telling me to “upgrade” to Win11. That page crashed when I clicked no.
I'll tell you what though, I am fucking SICK of hearing about the US election.
If I'll say one good thing about UK politics, it's that our elections are announced and held quickly. Six weeks, start to finish. Four weeks too long in my view, but two months every four or five years.
US presidential elections are - literally - continuous. No sooner has the incumbent been sworn in than their opponents begin jostling to run against them in a couple of years.
It’s just been pointed out to me that the reason Apple runs a trade-in programme for older devices is so they can reduce the size of the used market, and has fuck all to do with recycling.
Further to this, as I get older and (hopefully) more wise to the world, one of the things that’s really hit me is how everything has a price. Everything.
In this situation, Apple has decided that it’s worth them giving someone a £150 discount on a new phone in order to guarantee that they’ll make more money selling newer phones.
As someone who never really thinks about economy, it’s amazing to me that people’s brains work that way on an industrial scale.
Currently reading (again) The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.
It’s a very thinly veiled practical guide to socialism that was published 110 years ago, but which could have come out this year and still say basically the same things about society. About how employers and capitalists try to wring every last ounce of energy for the least amount of pay, and about how many of the working poor are taught from birth that this is correct.
Atop being tired at the moment, I’m feeling a bit blue after listening to a podcast about amphetamines yesterday.
It was interesting, but really did highlight how #ADHD is actually a societal “disorder”, and how much it fucks me up because of what’s expected of me. Left alone with no expectations to earn enough money to live, my ADHD would barely affect me.
But here I am, struggling to keep up, because people with a lot of money want more of it.
Funny how musicians pop up out of nowhere sometimes, isn't it?
So last night I got a hankering to hear Kerry Ellis' somewhat wonderfully over the top version of Defying Gravity*. Just looking through her stuff on Apple Music, see an album that came out a few months back. And wouldn't you know, there's a duet with Newton Faulkner on there!
I absolutely adored his first couple of albums, and had his demo from before he was signed.
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