I installed MX a bit over a year ago when my patience with ubuntu finally ran out. It’s great, running with plasma 5 on a pretty old laptop. Up to date repo mostly accounts for the stable-but-slow debian repos. One of the biggest plus points is the community forums - active, engaged, and helpful, far more so than I’ve experienced in many other distro communities. Can recommend.

Right there with you. I’ve seen the school photos my parents keep: at 13 it’s a normal photo, at 14 I have deep grey shadows under my eyes. I haven’t been able to sleep “normallly” since then. I was diagnosed a couple years ago at 35; getting on stimulants improved my waking life immeasurably, but the messed up sleep remained. One of the Drs recommended melatonin; this is the only thing that has ever really helped. It kinda short circuits my brain’s intention to stay awake until 4am looking for who knows what, and when I fall asleep I really sleep. Still only manage a few hours of sleep when I’m getting up at normal o’clock for work, but at least I’m getting up.

I don’t have real advice, this is mainly for solidarity. I’m tired too.

Dammit.

The IP address you’ve used as an example would not work. That is a ‘local’ address, ie home address. If you want DNS to resolve your public domain name to your home server, you need to set the A record to your ‘public’ IP address, ie the external address of your modem/router. Find this by going to whatismyip.com or something similar.

That will connect your domain name with your router. You then set up port forwarding on the router to pass requests to the server.

I’ve run into this when one person on a network is using Linux or Mac, and another Windows. They have different filename rules.

Merci

Triggers. Absolutely. If I have something to do, I write a reminder. If something important happens, I make a note. If I have an appointment, it goes in the calendar. Everything else just becomes dust in the wind.

When I was first diagnosed, it was my daily to-do list that kept me sane: breakfast, shower, walk, exercise… etc. Not so much that these were requirements as such, but as a reminder that these were worthwhile activities.

Personal choice. When I was first diagnosed, part of the ‘adult diagnosis program’ was looking at how to use a journal as ADHDer, rather than as a NT. As a result I spent a year or so with a handwritten journal, keeping notes on anything and everything I had the focus to write down. As I transitioned back into full time work, this quickly fell by the wayside as my free time reduced.

Now I mostly take notes digitally - at work using a variety of tools at my disposal, privately with obsidion for quick notes on my phone, or more complex topics on my nextcloud.

What to write down remains a struggle - as you say, the first bugfix gets a detailed description, then suddenly I realise I’ve fixed a half dozen points and written nothing…

I try to imagine future me looking at this issue, and how frustrated I would be without decent notes to describe it. That helps me to focus on what is valuable and what is not. Subjective and not perfect, but so is life.

I try to remember, to write anything is better than nothing, and only the act of trying allows any potential for improvement.

Take notes. It’s the only way I’m able to hang onto specific information and concepts ( ie code syntax, structures, processes ) in any reliable way. Your own notes are infinitely more valuable than any textbook(or blog or forum or whatever). Your own notes will be in your thought patterns, meaning when you read them later the information is ‘ready-to-eat’. Textbooks written by someone else provide information which first needs to be wrestled into shape before you can use it.

I have a self-hosted nextcloud server. I spent weeks learning how to set up apache, SSL certificiates etc. Then when 3 months later something broke, I had to learn it again from scratch - which led to me writing ‘guides’ for myself for all the stages of the process so the next failure would be easier to recover.

If it’s worth remembering, it’s worth writing down.

All the best! New languages (human or machine) are always difficult, but incredibly rewarding.

Oh i did this recently. Do not recommend. I was fried for days.

Have you read the articles of the genocide convention?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide?wprov=sfla1

I’d laugh if I wasn’t living this every day. The squiggle is uncomfortably accurate.

Damnit

Oh and as mentioned below, rock climbing/bouldering is fucking great. Go hang out at a gamified problem solving gym and you will exercise til you wish you could make yourself stop.

My method for hacking my brain is wakeup exercise. Finding a short exercise which I can do faster than I can talk myself out of it. I started with 5 pushups. That’s all. A tiny number, 10 sec exercise which I do as I get out of bed in the morning.

The important part is not to “push the envelope” or whatever. The amount of exercise should be small enough that it doesn’t bother you. And only do the exercise today. Don’t think about yesterday, don’t think about tomorrow. You only have to exercise once. Today. Easy. 10sec, 30sec, whatever. Then move onto whatever weird and cool shit you wanna do with the rest of your day knowing that you have exercised.

I feel like I’m cheating, cos it’s so simple yet so effective. I now do a lot more than 5 pushups, but the concept hasn’t changed.

Plus one to this - I bought one of these early this year and it’s a gamechanger. I take my keys everywhere, and I can fit a day’s worth comfortably.

Absolutely. I casually drop symptoms and behaviours into conversation all the time with no indication it is anything other than “just the way I am”. Noone ever blinks an eye.

Telling them I eat a bucket of pseudo-amph every day just so I remember to eat my lunch would be something else.

This is a very subjective and personal choice - I have only shared with select friends and family members - those I trust to be respectful. I have not told my work/colleagues, because I don’t think it’s relevant to them. If that changes, I may change my mind. Most importantly, share it when and where you are comfortable. It’s your truth, don’t feel pressured to share for the reasons or interests of others.

The latest versions of Aurora store have a setting to automatically search in the browser which evades the playstore-side rate limiting. It’s a little annoying, but that’s on playstore, not aurora.