• modifier
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    73 months ago

    Thank you for the reminder. Pretty sure I have two random gadgets sitting around on month 3 or 4 somewhere, so now I have a great activity for the weekend, or not, we will see.

  • @[email protected]
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    173 months ago

    My entire foray into home automation.

    There’s a box full of AliExpress zigbee sensors of all sorts in my office.

    Someday…

    • GTG3000
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      33 months ago

      Literally me. I should get to setting this stuff up, probably.

  • @[email protected]
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    13 months ago

    I have a 16 channel RC plane remote and an RC plane simulator i used thrice and haven’t used again in the last four years.

    It hurts

  • @[email protected]
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    393 months ago

    He missed a step before and some after:

    Do everything humanly possible with the thing, learn exactly how it works, become subject matter expert, then put it somewhere.

    Have someone randomly ask about the thing, knowledge dump, excited to show the person the thing, forget where you put it.

    Be at home a few weeks later, find the thing, be sad you couldn’t find it earlier, put it in a new pile, for sure you’ll remember where it is this time!

  • @[email protected]
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    93 months ago

    I have no idea how I got past this phase in my ADHD. I think at some point my brain went “okay only buy thing you’re going to use like every day”

  • @[email protected]
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    83 months ago

    Honestly I really enjoy doing this. Have done it constantly for decades hah.

    You end up having a graveyard of fascinating things that you can rediscover, and repeat the same cycle on. My small dwelling is full of surprises and discovery. Same shit I have been staring at for years. It’s great.

  • @[email protected]
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    63 months ago

    Urge or compulsion?

    Bcs the process is a drag, takes hours & a bunch of irrelevant decisions.

  • @[email protected]
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    103 months ago

    I am pretty sure this is anyone, not really ADHD specific. More like a “makes me feel good to buy something” specific. Which is many many people.

  • Miles O'Brien
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    73 months ago

    I have everything I need to build an enclosure for my cheap-ass laser. I have things I want to do with the laser when I can use it without smoking up the house. I have not started on it yet.

    I have everything I need to make the rc planes I have been designing. Its all sitting on a shelf waiting for me to do my thing.

    One of the things has been waiting for me to do my thing since before I moved.

    I’ll get to it.

    Eventually.

    Maybe.

    • @[email protected]
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      43 months ago

      I just tell myself that I should be happy that I can afford to buy the thing in the first place. There have been times in my life when I couldn’t, and it’s definitely better than that.

    • @[email protected]
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      123 months ago

      I have two raspberry pi’s just sitting in their boxes. It’s been two years 🤦‍♂️

      • Buelldozer
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        93 months ago

        I feel ya. Two still in their boxes JetKVMs and a new Pi 500 is just the start for me. Soooo much stuff, so much money, and hundreds of hours of research into all of them.

        • @[email protected]
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          83 months ago

          At some point I had three, and thought of buying newer more powerful models or the small versions for tinker projects I will never do.

          Eventually sold and gave away the unused ones, the only one I have ever actively used is effectively just my music system (hard drive with music collection and my Hifi speakers attached via HifiBerry DAC).

          What’s worse, in the last 2 years I bought 3 hardware synthesizers and learned a shitton about sound design. Still haven’t created a single track or interesting patch with any of them.

          Right now I am writing a short story, because I had a cool concept idea. Maybe I will complete at least one hobby thing for once? Oh my dear ADHD brain, you do really have a will and life of your own.