I hear you, I feel you, and I want the same, but…

I want more. I want pedestrians to step off the curb a little early sometimes, to take risks when things seem safe. I want people driving to be distracted and run a red light or even hit a car or pedestrian. I want the grade of the track and rain to impact the acceleration and deceleration of a train. I want card driven late at night to have a higher rate of intoxicated drivers and to get stopped by police.

The simulation could go deeper. The angle of the track at a turn could increase or decrease the safe turning speed for a train. The time since the last rain would change how much current rain makes the road slippery due to oil build up. People going home from a football game at a stadium would start bunched up together and saturate public transport and roads unless you put extra services on. Maintenance issues caused by you penny pinching would manifest in a range of ways from a minor difficulty getting to speed to derailing a whole train. Neglected IT systems could have ever increasing outages. Outsourcing development of your infrastructure could lead to increased cost over time especially if the cost of switching was high.

At the same time the increased use of public transport would lower the number of visits to the emergency room for asthma attacks. Making extra services available for big events would reduce the number of altercations and following that incarcerations. Everything could have flow on effects not by having them hard coded but by having natural reactions in the way entities interact. Someone is more stressed because industrial noise is happening close to their house late at night? They are more likely to be hasty crossing the road and get hit by a car.

Most of this is too big for a single developer or even a fairly good team, but the description of the interactions could be done at higher levels by having summary interactions, more general things like good or bad mood, short or long travel time compared to expectations, and rates of interactions rather than actual events playing out. Still, it would be awesome.

Absolutely not, no spirituality or religion at all. Strong beliefs about how the world doesn’t work (lots of specific debunked ideas, lots of ideas that are incoherent or inconsistent) but not sure about a bunch of stuff. I don’t think it would be meaningful to say there is a mind behind the creation of the universe because what we consider a mind and what that mind would have to be are two ideas with almost no overlap. If there is something out there magically making the universe what it is I don’t think we would be able to recognise it at all, let alone communicate with and understand it.

There are so many things to say here but ultimately the whole Centrelink system is not built to provide payments, it is built to deny them, so it is definitely going to be hard. That said, once you are approved it is fairly stable and my partner who has been on it for about 8 years has never had a blip or glitch or even hint of a problem. I was also able to eventually get Carer payment and provide care full time, though now with the progress we have made I am working part time and moving towards full time.

Depending on what you are diagnosed with the oath can be really variable. If it is something like bipolar (rapid cycling especially) there is no reasonable way you can maintain employment without significant support and accomodations.

That said, a reasonable doctor should be able to see the impact in your life and should be willing to handle the form, regardless of your age. Saying because you are young you are not disabled is just pure nonsense and would definitely be a good reason to move on and if possible make a complaint. It is literally discrimination to deny someone services based on age and this person is aware of that. Saying that you don’t need DSP because you are in your 30s is like saying you don’t need insulin in your 30s, maybe statistically it is less common but medical decisions are driven by statistics and implemented on an individual basis.

Anyway, switching psychiatrist is probably the best move if you think they are unlikely to change their mind. Trying one more time to get them to process the paperwork may be worthwhile depending on your circumstances.

If you do try I would recommend making a list you take with you of the areas of your life that are impacted. Can you perform your activities of daily living? Do you currently receive support from other people? How many jobs have you had and for how long over the last 10 years? How many units have you failed? Have you had a large variance in grades between units because of this issue? What about relationships? What about non work non education things like friends and hobbies? What about physical health, including diet, exercise, and drug use?

Lastly, I would consider being cautious about which drugs you are recommended. My partner developed mild twitching as a result of one medication and now 3 years later the symptoms are starting to lessen, but some of the meds can have big side effects and may also not do all that much to help. An incorrect diagnosis can lead to significant harm, so making sure you are personally well informed about what is happening, what you have been diagosed with, and what medications you are on will help protect you from harm. Also consider that non medical interventions can be a good adjunct to medical interventions, so managing your diet, getting good social connection time, exercising, and engaging with things you enjoy can make a significant difference.

My partner was diagnosed with extremely rapid cycling bipolar 1 and was on lots of meds for it, after a lot of work we have figured out that they are actually autistic and have ADHD along with a buttload of childhood trauma resulting in CPTSD. Work on the CPTSD has made a massive difference to life and making appropriate accomodations for the autism and ADHD have led to tonnes of other improvements. Medical support for ADHD is not practical where we are living but in another year we will be moving to somewhere that has actual support for that and meds look likely, specifically a stimulant, but apart from that the entire current treatment plan for the last 3 years has been diet (strict keto moving towards carnivore), reduction and eventual removal of almost all dairy (caesin specifically), and a buttload of trauma work as the interventions and then supportive modification of the environment including changing lighting, removing loud electronics (some wall chargers scream all day), managing clothing, and removing sensory stimulation that is unpleasant like terracotta and smelly deodorant. All of these things have done more than the meds ever did, but those meds were for the wrong issue and so may be perfectly good for other issues without being right for my partner, no shade on meds.

Good luck, and DM if you have questions

Yeah, I like DITMM but my partner and I keep an eye on each other, so if I take my meds and mark it off in Telegram they can see it immediately and that log is permenant, rather than being stuck on one device and only for me. Still, handy if you don’t have a helping hand like I do.

I have a large cardboard box with arduinos, raspberry pis, and various other electronics. Will they ever get used? If they stay in the box definitely no, but I don’t have a good system for getting them out while not having them just become clutter. That said, Ritalin helps a lot, so maybe with a good sleep and some good meds on board I have a chance.

I can genuinely point to Jupiter, any time, day or night. I may need to get my bearings for NSEW but assuming I have any point of reference I can just point at Jupiter. It is my favourite planet and since I was a kid I was a little obsessed and figured it out, now it just runs in the background like a little JPS (Jupiter Positioning System) all the time.

A truck driver in Australia has to have a higher grade license than a car license. In IT I had a bunch of certifications and so on but that never changed my earning potential much. I think the lack of a university degree was the big thing, but in truck driving that won’t be an issue.

I’m 17 years without alcohol, 16 without “le drugs”, and 15 without smoking. I still have issues in my life and challenges to solve but wow, all of those would be harder and more numerous if I still behaved like I used to. I had a fairly short period of massive excess and had a few lucky moments of clarity which resulted in me quitting it all one after another. My partner and I have been together since just after I quit drinking and I am really glad they never had to see me being my worst self.

My biggest takeaway is it really does get easier with time. The hardest times were within a short time of quitting. The longer I sustained the more ingrained the change became and now I would be stubborn and resist any sort of backslide.

I’m a fulltime Linux user and have been for about 15 years. Mint was a great district for that early phase where I was learning about the general difference between a locked down Windows environment and something more open and customizable. It put really good limits on my guesswork and made lots of sane, reasonable decisions about how things should be.

I moved around a lot, but my next medium term district was Linux Mint Debian Edition, then on to plain Debian (testing branch), around a couple of others until now I am on Arch based distros, mostly plain Arch but on one machine Manjaro. At every step some people told me I was on too simple a distro, others said it was too complex or unstable, so I just learned that everyone prefers what they have and are used to and it is much ado about nothing. In the simplest form, you do you, nobody else has to live your life and use your system.

That all being said, I love being on Linux. Wine has gotten so much better over time which is amazing, but also with the development of game environments like Unity, Godot, and so on developers have never had an easier time targeting Linux with a real release. Valve has definitely helped by pumping a lot of resources into Wine and also the surrounding stuff like OpenGL and Vulkan so that’s pretty cool.

Things have only gotten better since I started with Linux and it seems there is a lot of room to keep going. I am hopeful about the future of gaming on Linux and I really do think it is the current best platform for the future.

No, never. Diversity is the strength of open source software. Someone coming along and doing things differently to you is actually really helpful. Just remember that if you are both open sourced you can both see how each other solved a complex problem, fixed a bad bug, or made a performance gain. You won’t be able to directly import their code but the back and forth is helpful for both of you.

That said, helping with an established project is generally a better idea than making a new one from scratch unless you have a clear reason to be different. Many hands make light work and if you can work with someone you may make something better together than you would on your own. Never let that stop you though, go have fun, make a cool thing, and if it turns out you would rather work more in a team you can bring what you learned from building your thing to another project later.

The a fanfic author drops a new chapter my partner is at least as excited as I am when a new video game drops. There is nothing cringe about fanfiction, it is creative writing just as valid as writing a new piece from scratch, just with more context built right in. If you like fanfic then maybe writing it is a good idea for you

That said, when it comes to writing, reading is the key. Read lots and lots and lots, then write whatever takes your fancy, but never stop intaking new works. All writing is some sort of remixing and that is OK, you just want to have a lot to draw from and then write a lot of bad stuff to learn how to write well.

Oh of course, I just find that having some weird needs gas made me seek weird solutions and I like to share them around. I definitely didn’t get anything malicious from your post? Not sure if my tone came across poorly, I was going for a cheerful and helpful response, not any sort of critical or nasty, sorry if I sounded harsh or anything like that, definitely not my intention.

A simple but honestly kinda brute force way around it is to replace the TTF or equivalent font file for their font with a copy of Comic Sans on your system. It will show as Comic Sans on your system but will actually be Arial or Times New Roman or whatever in the document, so it will be what they expect on the other end.

That said, it is a simple accomidation, it should be manageable for them.

Seconded, a positive mindset is what we are cultivating and that starts at the name. It is also clearer, we all know that reform is possible but some people interperet antiwork as full work abolishment, something way down the line of work reform.

Yeah, they have a bunch of smaller creators there too. Honestly their internal business structure seems much more mutually beneficial than something like YouTube could ever be. All of the creators that I watch who are on Nebula I watch exclusively there now and that has taken a good 40% of my YouTube time away. My current favourite is Stefan Milo who talks about paleoanthropology, basically how we can know about human prehistory and evolution. There was a great video about tracing the genetics of South American populations to figure out when humans arrived on the continent and where from, such interesting stuff.

Nebula has been quite successful as far as I can tell. A whole bunch of educational YouTubers have moved over or were part of establishing it and honestly it works well. Videos can download to your device, the quality is the same, the app is a tiny bit janky but nowhere near as bad as all the ads etc on the YouTube app, and the cost is actually reasonable and goes in a reasonable share to the creators. I strongly prefer direct access to creators like this and also like on Patreon. Direct support means there is no advertiser in between to demonetise a video or have it taken down because it is controversial. You can’t even have a WW2 documentary on YouTube but you can have actual Nazis, but on Nebula you get analysis and history without Nike or Surfshark being reticent to sponsor a video.

Lol, absolutely! Bigots gonna bigot, best we can do is not fall for it and be kind to each other.

I just love how utterly obtuse the TERFs sound when they say “Trans women are not a subset of women, and cis is just a slur, women are women and trans women are not” or similar, like honestly, the terms are all very simple, tall women are a subset of women, brown women are a subset of women, infertile women are a subset of women, and they are all women. They are just bigots who don’t want trans women to be part of that group, they want to exclude them. It is just hatred and bigotry, the symantics are just a cover.

This reminds me of the Big Mac decision. I can’t remember where but there was a burger place that had a Big Mac burger but the name was not a copy of the McDonalds one, it was iirc because the owner’s name was Mac. Anyway, they lost the case and therefore lost copyright protection on Big Mac, so Hungry Jacks/Burger King started renaming all their burgers to something something big Mac, just to mess with them. Maybe Apple will bite of more than they can chew and end up losing protection for the Apple logo or similar things.

My hope is that federation will end up having a halfway setting, where content can come across but engagement is limited in some way. For example, you may see a post from lemmy.ml but you would only see comments from beehaw and the upvotes you give it will be calculated locally. This would allow content to be visible from everywhere but would keep the communities separated to some degree. Also having personal opt-in federation may work, just like with NSFW, you could on your account allow a particular instance to come through while someone else would not select that, leaving you with a fairly personalised experience.