I understand trees require maintenance to upkeep, but at the same time I actively avoid going to places and spending money there when it is hot (or cold and windy and exposed) and there are no trees. I get anxiety when everything is just large featureless concrete and asphalt expanses with zero shade or green color. I am sure I am not alone in this, so in a sense the presence of trees tends to bring in more shoppers to an area.
Personally I think it is kind of sociopathic when we build large population centers and plant zero trees or worse cut down old trees in an older town/city and never bother to plant new trees so that tree cover is maintained.
> I spent a couple hours browsing Lemmy instances today and I was shocked at how few users are needed to create replacement communities. Communities with about 2k users feel sparse, but good enough IMO.
It has become a joke on the fediverse that it is going to die any moment, tech journalists have written article after article over the years saying mastodon failed, it is going to die, it will never virally scale like venture capital funded corporate social networks did…
What they never understand is the localized perspective of someone in one of the small communities on the fediverse. Who individually actually cares if 1000, 5000, 100,000, 2 million…… or whatever abstractly large number of users are active on the fediverse? If you look up and see a handful, perhaps 60 active users who all genuinely engage with you and are interesting to talk to then the presumed fantastical future of a freer, fediverse of connected social networks existing outside of the rat race of corporate, consumption focused social media is already here…
Yes a small minority of people are currently experiencing that future, but it becomes undeniable that future can exist for everybody, it is a matter of simply more people waking to it when they please. The fediverse can exist as just a pebble on the shore of a corporate internet that dwarfs it, yet the potential always persists that the fediverse could destabilize and overthrow it all by virtue of being enough, just as a mere pebble, to bring meaning to the very next person who stumbles upon it.
There are reddit-likes on the fediverse (which means they are using the ActivityPub protocol). The fact that a software like kbin works on ActivityPub means that users on other fediverse software like Mastodon (twitter-like) can interact with posts on kbin. Discussion, interaction and discoverability are thus not limited to just the small community on kbin.
https://kbin.social/
I couldn't disagree more, Forged Alliance Forever or Beyond All Reason are infinitely more interesting to watch if you don't care about obnoxious micro skills.
I don't even need to explain the data structure to you, it is self evident. Any number of sophisticated functions can be built into an interpreter of the ledger data, but all of those complex functions never obscure the basic data which can be edited by hand in a plain text editor if desired. Or you can use ledger-mode in emacs and enter transactions through prompts so you don't have to manually structure the whitespace for it to look nice. However complex you desire, you can use ledger in that fashion, that is the strength of its minimalism.
Like I said elsewhere in this thread, I like to use ledger inside codeblocks in org mode (org-babel) in a simplistic application of literate programming. The extremely human readable nature of ledger's data structure is a natural fit for the similarly human readable org format, and in export of an org file into a website, html document, pdf or other media (via pandoc) ledger codeblocks remain human readable, even to someone who has never heard of ledger-cli. This means that an org file tracking a complex project with associated costs at each step (though ledger can track anything with units, including time) can be easily converted into a professional quality document that can be used in any number of contexts.
The professional outward facing document used for conveying information about a project to others can thus originate out of the same org file that is being used to work on the project itself. In other words, your notes are only a step or two away from a presentation in any number of formats.
When you want only the finances from the project file, just tangle it out and treat it like a normal ledger file.
I think ledger-cli is much more interesting in a literate programming style with it embedded into code blogs in org mode than just by itself. Not just for money either (ledger-cli can track anything with units), say you wanted to do a major home improvement project and needed a large amount of materials that may be used at multiple stages of the project. Ledger in this case is really useful as a way to tally up how many nails, boards, and other materials you might need. You can keep tallies of materials needed (and used) embedded into the broader context (what the materials will be used for) but still tangle out an overall tally of all materials needed and used.
Another example could be creating a meal plan for a long trip with many meals that you have to bring all the ingredients with you.
Ledger has so many more potential use cases than just as a way to track money, and ledger is so much more useful in org babel than by itself, it is an ideal compliment to org mode for managing large projects with lots of fiddly bits of defined types and units (which honestly can be time too, I kind of prefer it to org mode's clock system).
The meal plan example may be able to go even forward, because I think ledger-cli can also track your calories and macro-nutrients, apart from the ingredients themselves. I meant to do a calorie counting system in ledger-cli for some time, but did not quite get to it.
I am not really sure if ledger-cli has any capacity to create compound units, so that if you say log that you have eaten one potato in ledger-cli, you would also have to manually log the calories and macro-nutrients of that potato unless you had kept a template for that potato's nutritional profile you could copy paste somewhere right? I suppose you might be able to make a "potato" ledger file with its associated nutrient profiles and just load it from a code block every time you eat one. Idk.
Yeah Reaper isn't open source, but the licensing system is an amazing breath of fresh air. You can just download it and start using it with no account sign up process and once the free trial (60 days) ends all that happens is a nag screen pops up. You can literally just keep closing the nag screen and never buy the software (though this is an illegal use of the product) but why would you do that if you have the money to support the devs? I bought it as soon as I realized how easy it was to demo and start using.
If one of the primary points of open source software is to promote accessibility, Reaper goes a long way towards this without actually being open source. There is no DRM, there is no need to make an account and do some long sign up process to get Reaper up and running, there is no iLok required (vomits in mouth a little). You can download it in and start working on a project as quickly as your computer can finish installing it.
From Reaper's license popup:
> We are showing this message, instead of crippling this evaluation version of REAPER, because we do not feel technological enforcement of licensing policy is in the best interest of our customers
Reaper is the only professional artistic software (sold as a product) I have ever come across that is remotely realistic about how people use it. Nobody has ever pirated Reaper in the history of Reaper, there is no point and that is how software should work in a more sane world.
One of the Reaper devs once said on their forums (or maybe it was KVR) that they never want to add anti-piracy measures to Reaper because it's just a cost-center for development with no real payoff. It can potentially hurt paying customers, and it almost never converts pirates. If someone doesn't want to pay, music software is easy to pirate. If it's somehow not easy to pirate (Cubase was crack-free for several years), there's so many competing products with the same utilities, they will just pirate one of your competitors.
Exactly anti-piracy measures only punish paying customers because the pirated version won't have them. I think several big name musicians (with the money to pay for a software license) have been caught using the pirated version of music software simply because the pirated version doesn't require some stupid BS that the legal version does. I.e. you can get it running on your gigging laptop and not have to worry about juggling how many computers are currently using your license, stupid iLok usb dongles or some other nonsense. The pirated version just works.
Further, 99% of digital audio workstation customers start off as broke kids with no money to feasibly drop on a music production software that costs $150 or more. So a huge amount of future paying DAW customers are piracy converts anyways. Making a DAW that can't be pirated is a sure way to shove your future customer base onto somebody else's DAW that can.
No it’s not. It’s the truth. If you can’t exist without a substance that is being controlled by an elaborate chain of pharmaceutical companies, federal drug enforcement regulations and highly expensive doctors that is being up shit creek without a paddle.
What would you do if something like WWIII started and all non-vital drug manufacturing stopped? Or any conceivable scenario where suddenly these meds are not available. Everything is more fragile than you realize. Look at baby formula or other products that are produced by literally one single supplier. The system works until it doesn’t.
So let’s pretend adhd meds cease to exist. What will you do? Give up on life and cry about it? You need to be prepared for any circumstance.
Don’t get me wrong I’m struggling and I miss it constantly but I’ve also had to reset my mindset and expectations. People tend to adopt adhd as an identity but it’s not something that should be done. We all struggle to varying degrees with executive dysfunction and it’s silly to hide behind this crutch. Outside this high paced world people with adhd are just fine. But in this environment they are “disabled”
Holy shit that was brutal, more brutal than it had any right to be.
No, it's not fair to equate people treating their ADHD to crack addicts. Because treating ADHD and being addicted to crack are two different things.
People treating their ADHD have an actual physical deficiency in their brain that takes away capacity to function, and this is a disability, no matter what term you do or do not use for it in "this high paced world".
Usage of ADHD medication to address that deficiency is not at all the same as crack addiction. Because crack addiction is not addressing a deficiency, it's trying to add recreational pleasure to a perfectly normal and functional brain.
ADHD medication is trying to avoid the executive dysfunction that ADHD causes. Which no, is not something that "we all struggle to varying degrees" with; ADHD is worse. For example my body literally will not move if I try to do something that I don't want to do. Even if it's something that I need to do, or something that will have dire consequences if I don't. I won't be able to move, even if I try. The signals just do not reach the rest of my brain.
People with ADHD cannot just suck it up. They can't. You are being incredibly disrespectful and undermining a legitimate disability by acting like being dependent on ADHD medication is anything like being addicted to crack.
If you can suck it up and live without it, fine, good for you. If you can just change your lifestyle to work around your ADHD, fine. But not everybody can do this. And it's not their fault if they can't. It's not their fault that they were born with a brain that is not working as it should. And it's not their fault for wanting to fix it.
People who treat their ADHD don't want euphoria or pleasure or a fun time. They just want to live their fucking life without suffering from boredom and executive dysfunction and all the involuntary coping mechanisms that ADHD promotes.
Keep your incredibly insulting views to yourself. Comments like this help no one.
You were born with a damaged brain. I'm very sorry, I was too. It sucks. If World War III starts tomorrow, you're right, I'm going to have problems. But a lot of people are going to have very many problems in that case. But World war III isn't going to start tomorrow, and catastrophizing about it doesn't help matters. It's not going to, but let's say it did, there's still all of the already manufactured drug sitting in factory, sitting in semi-trucks and cargo containers on ships and on pharmacy shelves. The enemy (whomever this theoretical enemy is) isn't going to target Adderall factories and semi-trucks with their guided missiles, and even if they did, you've still got the rest of this month's supply, so it's still not instantly a problem.
We've got the mental equivalent of a person born missing their legs, so we need a wheelchair for the mind. With mind wheelchairs to make up for our missing executive function and other deficits, we can even sometimes outperform neurotypicals, but without it we're crawling on the ground with no legs. But having the wheelchair to use is so much better than crawling around on the ground.
Now that we've found this wheelchair that enables me to have a job and a life that I actually want, I'm not going to throw it away just because someone could come along and steal it. That's mental!
It's a lie that people with adhd are fine outside of our fast paced world. Can you imagine being a farmer with no executive function? How are you going plan ahead to grow crops so you don't starve over the winter. Can you imagine trying to plan a woolly mammoth hunt? Just how do you plan on killing the thing without executive function? Our brains would just be Step 1. Find woolly mammoth. Step 6. Eat woolly mammoth meat. You don't get to step 6 without figuring out the missing steps!
We're not the only ones in this boat, and it sucks to be disabled, but we don't have the technology to fix our brains, so we just have to accept it. Just like those with hypertension have to live with needing heart medication, or diabetics need insulin, or rheumatoid arthritis sufferers need their DMARDs, or AIDs patients need their ARTs, or epileptics need their anti-seizure medication, or hypothyroidism sufferers need their synthetic thyroid medication.
Hell, if gasoline magically disappeared, society would be fucked. Not sure if anyone is prepared for that circumstance. Because it's ludicrous. The world's gasoline won't magically disappear in an instant. Stop watching so many movies.
> If World War III starts tomorrow, you're right, I'm going to have problems.
I don’t know. Chaotic environments seem to be where my ADHD mind operates best when not on medication. I’m by far at my most productive when shit is on fire and everyone is panicking and doesn’t know what to do. I don’t think most ADHD folks would need medication if it wasn’t for modern working environments. When I’m dragged into WW3, my inability to pay bills on time or my complete lack of ability to start putting together that architecture until the deadline is looming will no longer be my greatest weaknesses.
Don't get me wrong, I'm right there with you! My career as an on-call SRE dealing with incident response wasn't chosen by accident. If the website's on fire, suddenly I can move mountains, but if I have the luxury of waiting until 9 am Monday morning to do the exact same tasks, my brain just won't cooperate.
It's easy to frame the demands of modern working environments as the problem, but it's really the other way around. Modern society is so luxurious, so privileged, there's just so much excess, that bills don't rise to the level of emergency that my lizard brain is able to comprehend. Consciously, yes, I need to pay my bills, but it's nothing bad happens immediately the instant my power bill is late. Even when the power company does send somebody out, they don't ring my doorbell and start yelling at me for not paying. If someone I didn't know came by and yelled at me I'd be way more able to remember to pay my bill. (SYayaS? Stranger yelling at you as a service?) But that's rude and unpleasant and no one wants that.
Meanwhile, outside the trappings of modern society, you don't have a plan for catching the woolly mammoth until you're too hungry to think, and then you can't think (not that you were great at planning to begin with) so you starve and die.
This whole "it's modern society that's the problem with my ADHD" is a stupid myth that needs to die.
> Meanwhile, outside the trappings of modern society, you don't have a plan for catching the woolly mammoth until you're too hungry to think, and then you can't think (not that you were great at planning to begin with) so you starve and die.
I also wouldn't have thousands of completely meaningless distractions. It's not like the choice was doom scroll Twitter or go hunt that woolly mammoth. You also get hungry long before your body falls apart due to starvation. I can't imagine anyone's ADHD making them lay around until their body was too emaciated to hunt. If the tribe is unsure of how to take out a woolly mammoth, that sounds like the sort of problem I'd (involuntarily) ideate on instead of twisting all that cordage. For me to accept this as a myth, I'd need something far more compelling.
Personally I think it is kind of sociopathic when we build large population centers and plant zero trees or worse cut down old trees in an older town/city and never bother to plant new trees so that tree cover is maintained.