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Facebook Dating worked best for me as a 48 year old, and that was after 4 years bouncing between different apps having roughly a couple of dates per month. It gets pricey, and just so time consuming.

Working in certain environments also where vibrate isn't harsh enough to inform you, you can't wear a headset, and you have ear protection in, all there can be is a super loud ringtone.

I started using Delphi back in the early 90s because I needed to send a "catalogue on a floppy" to customers of my parents.

At the time I'd used VB but the runtime was the size of a floppy on its own, and the catalogue data pushed it over the size. I remember reading that Delphi didn't require a runtime and that was that.

I still use Delphi for LOB apps - so very quick to design a user interface and have a working program ready to roll out, for example so transport can update their haulier quickly, or the accounting software has a shoddy smtp implementation that doesn't play well with our spam appliance so we create a tool that fires statements via mapi and let outlook deal with retries.

Oh yes, I've tried, and I think there may be other reasons behind why it's not right - but at the moment ET isn't working for me, I just don't have the energy to spare.

20 years ago though yes, definitely, I learned to embraced the chaos (vs needing everything pre-planned) and put myself out there.

I take propranolol alongside atomoxetine as I get regular headaches, perhaps something to look into?

I did have ED for a while when I first started, that and the disconnected / painful orgasms. After 6 months though it's all back to normal and working better than it was tbh.

I have social anxiety and pushing myself to get out there leads to massive fatigue which makes me not want to go out and do that again, it can lead to a vicious cycle.

I was started on atomoxetine in February after 48 years of getting by, and it's been absolutely life changing - I'm finishing projects and clearing stuff off my desk that would in the past have been 90% complete with me having to be interrupted to clean up.

There's a shortage of atomoxetine, my pharmacist has ordered extra so I should be ok, and I have a stash of lower dosage capsules just in case.

The worry is that the side effects between 40mg and 60mg were awful, and I don't really want to go through that again.

My reading vision has gotten worse over the last 5 or so years as I've gotten older - and when I'm trying to look at something closely, like I used to be able to do, I do feel for a moment like it's not my vision but my brainpower reducing. There is definite confusion.

We have a print job "triplicator" that I wrote about 12 years back to replicate three part dot matrix paper on a laser/mfp.

The employee works at a branch office that used to have a really good connection but now has an awful 50/12 adsl link.

They connect to our remote desktop server to our accounting software - create a proof of delivery that is printed via the triplicator to their local mfp machine which can take a moment to actually print.

When we moved from the 100mbps mpls link to the crap adsl there were some issues with printing the delivery notes, which we had to work around, but this is now recorded in people's memories as an ongoing issue - which it's not.

So, the issue is they believe they've processed the delivery notes and printed them, but they never appear. We can prove they've not been processed or printed due to database entries and logs, but the employee is adamant she's done them, and she's a great employee bar this one thing so hr and her manager don't push back.

We had a situation where we had to use monitoring software to try to catch a very random issue that we suspected was user error, but the user was very obstinate it was a system error.

The software we found, the "features" are abhorrent in my opinion - the screen recording was what we purchased for, and we disabled everything else.

Thing is, we've discussed this with the specific employee involved and shown them exactly what we can see, and exactly what we can't see. Informed them that only I can see the data and will only use it when that specific problem is reported.

Watching seems to have reduced the incidence of the error, it was happening once or twice every 3 weeks, but it's not happened within the past 7 weeks at all.

It's "saved" us about 5k so far, so I can see why it's attractive.

Started on atomoxetine in February - I was 47 - the difference it has made with regards to staying on task, and short term memory is staggering. Doesn't really help with motivation though, sadly.

I wasn't aware of the long term positive changes, perhaps this is what my psych should have said instead of giving me an analogy of floating down a river and wanting me to carry on down that same stream without the meds...

Teams app on windows completes the full circle in my opinion.

I remember my first introduction to YKK zippers was an image of Kylie Minogue in a red leather jacket, from Smash Hits circa 1988.

Started looking out for and noticing zippers after that.

I remember sitting trying to solve a problem to do with parent/child codes and modifiers, and I'd never had nothing come out, that was absolutely scary. 8 months later and I looked at it again and solved it so easily.

The big problem was that I'd always been able to hide my adhd symptoms, or at least 'clever' my way around them, and long covid / covid brain just laid them all bare.

Over 3 years after my first covid infection - still can't really taste or smell - I'm medicated for adhd, and I feel almost like how I was in March 2020.

Would sitting on a rocking kneeling chair count as an isometric exercise?

I almost died due to sepsis after a wisdom tooth removal - interestingly the bacteria smelled like butterscotch, and my long term chronic paroxysmal hemicrania went away.

I've lost my smell and a lot of my taste thanks to covid, even after a couple of years it hasn't returned.

The strange thing - it started to come back in early February, very slightly, I could smell things I'd not been able to for a while - like cinnamon, or rose.

Tested positive for covid a few days later. Once covid tested clear using a lateral flow test my smell went.

So you're saying my experience in growing mushrooms may not have been a waste of time :)

I'm from Wakefield in West. Yorks. In 1985 there was an issue with the early warning sirens near our school - it was harrowing and took a few hours to fix. Was the first I'd heard of "newkiller bombs" and as a 9 year old couldn't comprehend.

Then the year later at a new school there was the Chernobyl disaster.

I can understand why there was such a reduced want in nuclear energy, 40 years later though I wonder how things would be if we'd gotten rid of coal and gas sooner?!

I moved from raspberry pi's to amazon fire sticks and sideloading kodi is now down to a minute or so installation - including copying my advanced.xml over from a unc path so it uses the shared db. Life has been so much easier since.

covfefe?

I'm contracted for 39 hours and work at most 40 hours - to be honest I'm usually brain dead every night after work, and mindlessly indulge in tv until I fall asleep at 10pm ready to start the day anew.

You had water? You were lucky...

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

PS, I read the news today, oh boy.

That sounds incredibly similar, so much so that I've just had a breakfast wrap and I'm partway through a large coffee...

But, at the docs the other day because I'm slightly depressed, and my blood tests come back with elevated liver enzymes so from Monday I'm back to walking in (only 2 miles / 30 mins) that will also block my mcd's addiction. Hopefully.

When I was young my dad had an early compaq laptop - green cathode ray screen, looked like the case for a sewing machine.

Tried to use some commands, but didn't know dos - format c: of course doesn't show the directory in a specific format...

I fucking love you. Actually, I try really hard to not swear in front of my kids, but I think I'm too far gone. My wife will chime in and tell me off - you know what, my kids don't actually swear as much as their peers, so I kind of think I'm doing them a favour.

Exactly what I've seen after a year implementing software that ultimately failed - probably the worst professional period of my life.

During that period I was ok, probably surviving on fight and flight, but since I've had episodes as you describe, although one case with a super high temperature that left me unable to work for 3 days.

I wonder if that's the problem - hearing is too sensitive - I have mysophonia (level 6) and I'm more likely to hear a packet of sweets being opened than someone talking.

Bar type conversations usually have me decoding people's facial expressions and nodding or grimacing at the right times.