Man, I still regret not getting in on it in the begining when you could mine with consumer hardware you weren't using. Back when it was almost entirely hypothetical and nowhere accepted them for anything. People treating them like play money and "tipping" posts on reddit.
wizardbeard
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Lol, your mom isn't a doctor, and doctors aren't supposed to diagnose that sort of thing in family.
So what's your plan to fix your habits then? "I'm just going to do better" is not a plan. Either way, you need to learn how you function and where your personal shortcomings are, and plan around them rather than planning to somehow magically charge through them.
If you have a broken arm, you don't plan to do pushups.
Do you have an answer to why you're skipping classes if you know it's a problem and want to pass? Or is it just a vague "somethings changed"?
If you don't think you can pass, drop the course and try again next semester. If you still can, and this is a matter of "I don't know how to force myself out of bed on time, I don't know why I keep choosing to skip" then you need to see a doctor about this. Maybe it isn't ADHD, but it is something.
My mother thought she knew better because she was a teacher. She was wrong, I definitively have ADHD and being medicated contributes massively to my quality of life. ADHD is an executive function disorder. Knowing what I need to do but not being able to consistently get myself to do it. The meds don't make me not me, they make me better able to stay on task and follow through with plans.
Look, I'm not a professional, but this sounds very much like a lot of peoples' stories of discovering they have it. Sounds similar to mine as well. When you had people around you assisting in imposing structure, you shined. You probably didn't have much trouble in school to speak of, and now suddenly you've hit a wall now that it's all on you.
That could be normal struggles to adjust to college and the massive leap in personal responsibility, but what you've posted sounds quite a bit deeper than that. If you can, go talk to a professional.
Edit: Also, holy fucking shit. I know you probably don't know any better, but saying this with my full fucking chest:
GETTING DIAGNOSED WITH ADHD AND GETTING MEDICATION TO TREAT THE SYMPTOMS IS NOT A CHOICE TO AVOID FIXING YOUR OWN HABITS AND OFFLOAD PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY ONTO MEDICATION. IT IS CORRECTION OF A CHEMICAL IMBALANCE IN THE BRAIN THAT DISRUPTS EXECUTIVE FUNCTION. CORRECTING THAT IMBALANCE ENABLES A PERSON TO BE ABLE TO TAKE THE STEPS TO CORRECT THEIR HABITS.
The "/v/s recommended games" wiki is mostly maintained by 4chan users (yuck), but it's been a good source for both mainstream and hidden gems.
If I have time later I'll edit this with some personal recomendations.
Yeah, if you have a habit of confronting people in public when they've been assholes (and make no mistake, he was an asshole who deserves a beating), it probably would be a good idea. Or if you live in an area where these sorts of things regularly occur to you.
What possible outcome could you possibly expect from contronting someone who had done that? Just keep walking man. It sucks, but it's not like you're ever getting an apology.
Because despite the insistence for years, those are not the same thing. Full stop.
My apologies, with the collective chicken little-ing around Firefox I didn't read as clearly as I should have.
Yeah, control should be on the user's end rather than expecting a website or external resource to not change.
Terms of Service (ToS) are regularly not upheld in court, and their terms are worded so poorly that as written, it would not be a difficult case to defeat.
The Firefox specific terms for the precompiled binary link to a more general terms page meant to be additional parts, but the additional parts they link to specify that the additional terms only apply to use of Mozilla "services" (sync, vpn, etc). The concerning shit on the ToS lies in the terms for their services.
It's a clear contradiction of scope, and unfortunately not Firefox's first fuckup of this kind. So far, with a multi decade history, none of these contradictions have been used to fuck over their users.
They already have separate terms for use of the source code. Those are what making forks, and what compiling the source yourself, fall under. They do not make any reference to the services ToS. Use of the source is not effected by any of this so far, on a technical (can the bad shit be removed) and on a legal (are forkers allowed to remove) level.
Hacker News has some deeper discussion about the finer points of the ToS mess.
And apparently Mozilla has clarified that the wording changes in their summary (not the actual ToS) are because California's definition of "sale" of information includes just communicaring it to a third party as part of normal operations support. Thanks again to Hacker News discussion of Mozilla's latest statement.
And again. 100% open source. There is no way for any functionality (including functionalitt that does that) to exist somewhere that people making forks can't modify/remove it.
So... entirely vibes based take. Maybe take some time to step away and come back later.
Spamming a doomerism opinion, when not backed up by anything but feelings, helps nobody. It's an overactive immune response. The fever worse than the illness your body is trying to burn out using it.
I get that it feels like the world is going to shit, and especially when things you thought were trustworthy start doing this, it's a blow. But this shit (repeated as fucking much as you have repeared it) makes the community, and people who need a non-corporate controlled browser, weaker and more vulnerable.
Edit: As rtxn and n0x0n point out, we can adjust settings in Firefox itself and expect them to stay applied, but any settings done within the websites for Mozilla's services could be changed on the Mozilla end at any time. Probably best to have an extra layer to this just in case.
Yes. Yes it can, and you bet your bibby people will be watching to see if Mozilla bypassed those settings, not that they ever have in their multiple decades of existence.
You'll also have to opt out of using Mozilla services like browsing and bookmark sync.
What? What?
Their track record has no instance of them not respecting settings! A track record of multiple decades! The code is fully auditable, so any of those shenanigans would be caught immediately!
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills lately.
We need to be on guard and verify they don't do this shit, but outright expecting it? When Firefox also has a history of absolutely abysmal PR on shit like this, without the follow up of abysmal practices?
It feels like accelerationism. Like people want Firefox to fail, rather than just wanting to be prepared if it does.
Great old muppets bit/song:
"Can't get away to marry you today, my wife won't let me" 1 minute in