I have the full Warcraft 3 battle chest stored safely. I will never use it but I would have a deep sadness at loosing it.

Instapot and a few recipes that essentially are, “Put everything in the pot, close lid, turn on, wait”.

Probably because they are not actively working to make sure it works properly. So it is better to set low expectations vs having people get upset if they hit problems.

No one will really be able to answer that question but you, but other people can make suggestions for consideration that may help you find the answer. I would suggest spending time with the feeling and approaching it like a puzzle. Is your repulsion to a thing proportional to it’s popularity or does it not make a difference until it reaches some threshold? What in your mind makes a thing popular? Does it make a difference if you found out it was only popular with people you know but not popular in the larger community? What about the inverse? Do you care about what is popular to other distant cultures/languages that you will probably never interact with?

This may or may not lead to you finding the answer of “why”, but it can help you better understand the dimensions of your personal quirk.

I run Truenas scale on home server and on the off-site backup at a friend’s house. ZFS Snapshots get synced to backup server nightly. The snapshot system is nice because it only needs to send what has changed since the last synced snapshot.

Now that I have it setup it is mostly no effort on my part. But the initial ramp up to understand Truenas and ZFS was a second job for a few weeks. HexOS may be good choice if you want the power of Truenas but the handholding of setup wizards and such. But HexOS is currently $200 and Truenas is free. Pay in time or dollars.

You will most likely have a process of trying out different medications to find what works best for you. If you have concerns, like a family history of addiction, it is probably worth bringing up in that process. I will say that because the stimulants, at least in US, are a controlled substance getting them requires jumping through more hoops. So that is also something to include in the conversation.

That sounds challenging. Are you playing with a group of friends or random people? If it’s friends, I really suggest talking to them about the experience you have. If they understand your challenges they can make small adjustments to help be able to participate.

Linus has literally talked about that multiple times. He learns just enough to cover what is needed for the video, does the video, then forgets most of.

They are more entertainment and light education. They are trying to target a very wide audience, so they can’t really do deep on things. For actually learning I like LearnLinuxTV and LawrenceSystems.

I would personally use Debian as my first choice then use Ubuntu if there is a reason to use it over Debian. For example Ubuntu will often integrate drivers for new devices faster than Debian. But if you are dealing with hardware released more 1 year ago, I wouldn’t worry about that. Also, some applications will specifically call out Ubuntu as their supported distro.

A positive thing you could do is to continue to learn about the experiences that AuDHD people have and productive ways to support them. If you understand the challenges she has it will be easier to be patient when she has difficulties. This may even lead to an understanding of how to effectively communicate the idea to her in a way she doesn’t immediately reject.

Worst case, you grow your understanding for a large group of people that frequently have difficulty functioning in society.

The restrictions are probably about non-ADHD people seeking the same meds. Turns out it works for them also.

You just get to learn to be VERY patient.

Chrome Remote Desktop works if she uses the Chrome browser and you only need occasional control when she present to authorize you getting access to her computer.

If your Internet connection is 1g or slower just about any desktop built in the last 10 years should be fast enough. The critical thing is having a good network card. Intel is generally very reliable for network cards and you can get used ones on eBay for not to much.

The suggestion I have heard is to have the remote machine connect to the machine on a schedule and pull the backups onto itself. Then your local machine doesn’t have direct access to the backups, making it harder to compromise the backups if hacked. But this also assumes the backup machine is locked down and isolated so it is lower risk than the local machine.

I think more important than which distro to choose is you setting up remote access for yourself. Tailscale and maybe rust desk or something would be a good idea. Or if you want to go further a vpn connection to a KVM device, some of them support being able to wire into the power button so you have full control. I would also have their account info in your password manager. Then you don’t need them to remember anything because you can do it when needed.

I just googled that model number and “Linux support”. The first result was the Brother website for driver downloads, which does include packages for linux.

Not getting enough sleep can cause ADHD like symptoms or make ADHD symptoms worse. It might be worth looking into if your not getting enough quality sleep. Getting consistent quality sleep is a solid unmedicated way to reduce ADHD symptoms.

This video has a similar discussion about the C++ programming language vs other programming languages that are theoretically better. https://youtu.be/I7fEsbksKRE?is=T53DqwVNM3ps97JY

The summary: An imperfect solution today is nearly always used over the perfect solution that will arrive at some unknown time in the future. Also momentum is a thing.