I dunno if I’d call myself a workaholic, but I easily get stuck in the hamster-wheel when I’m stressed and the longer you are in the hamster-wheel the blurrier your surrounding gets and it gets harder and harder to stop the wheel to get out. I think your note made him step out of that wheel and he hopefully realized what’s important in life. You, and living in the moment. So I don’t think he hates you.

Oh wow, it IS odd that Skoda would be more expensive and €5k is a lot! Very odd indeed.

I’m glad you found a car you like!

That’s the “why I can’t do it” part.

But if it was possible to get knobs and buttons for everything and a small-ish screen only for info, I’d take that. I’d pay for that. Touch screens are dangerous. I’d at most be comfortable to swipe on the screen to show different infos like GPS, temperature/airflow, music/radio. Otherwise I want buttons and knobs with little lights.

That’s the “why I can’t do it” part.

But if it was possible to get knobs and buttons for everything and a small-ish screen only for info, I’d take that. I’d pay for that. Touch screens are dangerous. I’d at most be comfortable to swipe on the screen to show different infos like GPS, temperature/airflow, music/radio. Otherwise I want buttons and knobs with little lights.

I’d rip out the touch screen SO fast

A weird way I learned to eat more normal portions was to buy frozen meals. Sure they are super processed but when looking at the ingredients it looks like completely normal homemade food so it can’t be that bad. We ate that for a couple of weeks before we got tired of it. But that was enough to learn

Hi! Not the same person but I’m in the same process!

Firstly, take it in steps, don’t quit all processed food at once. I actually started with eating more veggies, both in the food and as a side salad.

Then read on the products, not all processed foods are equal, and it depends on what more you have in the meal. On meat products I often look at the meat percentages, it can vary A LOT. A sausage with + 80% meat is a lot better than 30%…

You can also look for E-numbers, concentrates, and other additives. How good or bad these are are still being discussed but I’m leaning towards bad, especially if it’s a lot.

For example a highly processed sausage with basmati rice and a decent amount of salad isn’t the same as said sausage with just mac and cheese.

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Some meals are easier to prep than others but more often than not I’ve found meals, especially the meat, to need time. Time to cook properly!

• Fry meat in a pan, let it simmer in water for half an hour or so ( I rarely keep time ), make a sauce in the pan.

• Or put a chunk of meat on a oven safe plate and trow it into the oven on 150-175°C for 1.5-3h or more depending on size and tenderness.

• Or make a soup, just make sure it boils long enough for the meat! :)

This! A lot of people seem to forget that in order to get a diagnose it has to cause a disturbance in normal life. Myself included, as a late diagnosed autistic person.

Coping mechanisms are like adding cotton around the spikes (aka. struggles) of the diagnose / disorder. They do not remove the struggles but instead make them less visible. But if you push enough on a spike it will eventually push the cotton away and the spike with be more prominent.

Most people have small spikes that don’t cause a lot of trouble but may make the person say they have a bit of [disorder]. But it is not a disorder as they don’t have loads of comping mechanism and a disturbance in normal life. It’s just a normal human variation.

Computer with cloud-based subscription sounds like a great example of enshittification.

I might prefer no PC over that. Ew. I mean, the libraries have PCs you can borrow if I’d really need to use one.

That’s actually the main reason I switched my PC from Windows 10 to Linux. I couldn’t upgrade to Win 11. Now I’m happy I couldn’t!

I would have called myself insane five years ago too!

Yeah, jumping to Linux could help a bit. I did that a couple of years ago, but that was more because I couldn’t upgrade to Win 11 on my almost a decade old PC. Now I’m glad I couldn’t upgrade to Win 11 haha.

I had a laptop with Win 11 tho but I never got used to it and don’t want AI and shit in any of my computers so I jumped over to Linux on that to.

Maybe Steam will save the day with the Steam Cube? Isn’t that pretty much a normal gaming PC?

This is a good point, we don’t need PCs to be this expensive.

I just hope we don’t fuck up the whole thing and end up with cloud computers or end up not making new PCs…

Noooooo don’t say that ;a;

Thank you for sharing! I think they’ll never give up ;a;

I’m also using mastodon and really liking it.

Bluesky is ok but it never really stuck for me.

I want to get into peertube but I find it really hard to find content I like and an instance to join.

Same in Sweden

omg, I haven’t played since 2022. It’s going to be a whole new game then. Almost. haha

ooooh, that’s exiting! Maybe I should give it a go again. It’s been ages since I played last time

Doing everything in the cloud is crazy. I’m so glad I jumped over to Linux a couple years ago!

What if we get a lack-of-new-computers-crisis before the AI-bubble bursts