Yes except for me “him” is now my partner and we’re getting married next year. I do have some friends with seemingly unlimited conversation topics too, but eventually I get socially exhausted and I need to finish the conversation and have a break.

You can do this with not that much setup:

• Obsidian app on the phone
• Make a shortcut on your desktop so that it’s easily accessible and there’s minimal friction to make a rough note (you can write on your daily note)
• Have obsidian synced to your computer, either through their paid service or something like Google drive / etc.

And now what makes it magic for me:

• Have a bash script that runs on your computer every once in a while and combines your notes into a single file
• Append that file into your LLM of choice (either online or a local one if you have that setup) and make a prompt that goes something like “you’re a NotebookLM style assistant with access to my notes, answer from knowledge of my notes unless explicitly asked otherwise…”

Depending on how sophisticated your setup is, you might get the LLM to automatically pick up changes in your notes. I do this at work and it feels like magic.

And probably on iOS too, which isn’t linux either.

For a cartoon game.

With the aesthetics they have, this could have been playable on the steam deck without anybody noticing the difference in graphics.

Why do they need 2-billion-polygon rocks only to flatten them all out and make it look like a cardboard cutout? It’s ridiculous.

You sort of can already. For text it’s definitely possible, and I’ve started doing it since my notes are mostly text rather than screenshots. (I use obsidian to take notes, and quick thoughts get their own note).

I don’t have a mega cohesive workflow yet but this is the list of things I do:

• I have a script that combines all my notes into one. This runs automatically in my computer every few minutes, and synced to Google drive.

• For work (we have a Gemini Pro subscription) this plus some rolling meetings notes gets added to a gemini “gem” (custom set of instructions/context) that has been instructed to answer from my notes, so that I can ask it “what recent ideas have I had” or “what’s the biggest problem right now with project XYZ”.

• For my personal notes, I upload manually the combined notes to perplexity and do roughly the same.

• And the one that might work for you, now I’ve opened my obsidian vault (I.e. the folder where my notes live) with Windsurf, an AI-enabled IDE. These things can do much more interesting things than vibe coding. I use this for tidying up: “help me find topics in my notes where I haven’t linked the notes between them”.

You could use this last one to open your screenshots folder, and your monthly credits might not last that long if you’re dealing with images, but I think that’d be a problem only at the beginning when you have a large number of unsorted files. You could ask it to put analyse them and put them into longer format notes, for example. Or go through them one by one, analyse them, and if they’re worth keeping, add the text to a single big text file and then move the screenshot to another folder that you could delete later.

This is how I used to think until I was shown that no, this is a problem that >80% of the population doesn’t have, and no, misplacing your coffee mug an average of 3 times during your workday is not typical.

They’re absolutely failing because the execs are hype-driven clowns who focus on the wrong metrics.

“Failing to drive rapid revenue growth”, WTF. Leaving aside whether GenAI is a useful technology or not, it’s never been a technology to “drive rapid revenue growth”, just like Microsoft Office, or calculators, or a million other technologies.

This is all just a pipe dream from a clueless exec class that prioritises short-term profits and hoped that implementing a glorified autocorrect would make people flock en masse to their random product. Why would you think an AI chatbot in your online clothes shop would make me like your ill-fitting jeans any better, you overpaid monkey?

Maybe you could have hoped for employees to achieve a “5% productivity increase” or something mildly realistic, but no, your brain-eating slugs told you to shoehorn AI into everything and 👏We 👏Don’t 👏Need👏AI👏Fucking👏Everywhere👏

I know I’m preaching to the choir but I needed the rant.

Could any kind soul provide a TL;DW for those of us who can’t watch a video (for whatever reason)?

Yeah she sounds like the particular brand of idiot that we have in the UK. I fortunately don’t see that many of those… but still enough to find that sort of attitude recognisable.

In my experience, the more straight a person is, the dumber they are about anything computer, broadly speaking.

Wow, really hot take here. Who people have sex with has nothing to do with their capabilities or intellect. That’s just as bad as staying “the gayer someone is, the worse they are at sports, broadly speaking”.

The rest I agree, as someone who works in the field yes, many of us are LGBTQ+ folks, but still not a majority. Which still results in people like me meeting, and engaging with more straight men than gay peeps.

I have far more straight than gay friends. I think it is purely because of my hobbies. I like cars, computers, and a bunch of these things that someone once decreed are “heteronormatively manly” and as a result, my friends happen to be straight.

I couldn’t care less who they have sex with, because I don’t choose friends based on what they do in bed.

I love my job (and I would say to an atypical amount), and I’m on meds… But this doesn’t change the fact that some days you just don’t have the energy or brainpower to do anything - especially if your job requires deep thought and concentration.

It’s taken me a good while to learn not to feel guilty about this, and also not to take it as a sign of me not liking my job.

I’ve just had to send this to a friend who always complains (jokingly, of course) about how I do exactly this.

When they finally crash and burn (or sure, when they develop an AGI 🙄) this has potential to be an incredibly dramatic biopic. I hope it gets a good director.

My fiancé has combined type nominally, but other than racing thoughts and some stimming, he’s definitely the quiet type. I would say that’s probably the case for many (most even?) AuDHD people, as autism doesn’t usually go hand in hand with the endless social battery that the ADHD stereotype portrays.

Well the UK said they have no plans but now they have to actually debate it in Parliament. So it’s better than nothing - at least the proposal gets a chance to be heard.

I would say except “no thoughts, head empty” and “want to do nothing”, the rest of the moods are failures to regulate.

If you can regulate, you don’t get into a hyperfocus that lets you forget your own physical needs; or feel you want to do “all the things” but simultaneously none of them feels appealing/right.

I think this might be the first time I find the right words to say this. Also it’s probably not the right thread but if I try to make a post I’ll lose motivation and not write this, so… Since we’re in an ADHD sub, here we go.

It irks me when people say I physically can’t get off the sofa and do things. Because no, there’s nothing physical preventing us. There’s no barrier, there’s no muscle weakness, our neurons haven’t stopped telling our legs to work. We’re mentally blocked instead (as evidenced, for example, by the fact that we might be able to get up to go get more crisps, while moping and feeling useless all the way to the kitchen and back).

Our mind, and by this I’m talking about the area of the brain that controls executive function, it’s refusing to either put together a plan (10:04 am - get up, 10:05 am - clean kitchen) or might know the plan but refusing to execute it and send the commands to another part of the brain.

I think when people say “I physically can’t move”, neurotypicals roll their eyes and don’t understand, because there’s nothing at a physical level actually preventing an able-bodied individual to move, and they make the mental shortcut to “this person is lazy”.

Sorry about the rambling. TL;DR: I think we need better wording to explain this to people who don’t experience it, as we’re blocked mentally, not physically.

I mean it’s your money, but if you already have a portable handheld with better screen, better battery, and that can run the whole of the steam catalogue… why spend $450 (or whatever) on the Mario Machine, is it just for the exclusives?

What are you smoking?