the empty jar of Noxzema that’s been sitting on the edge of my bathtub for two weeks would like a word
PSA: it’s not good for your hair to shampoo every day. Every other day should be fine.
Honestly every other day is still a LOT. Shampoo your hair when it gets greasy, no sooner. The grease glands on your head will calm the fuck down after a while.
Uh… Can I ask more about hair? I try to wash my hair once a week, but it currently gets greasy after about 5 days (day 6 and 7 I wear headbands). If I wash it on day 5, do you think I’ll eventually make it to 7 days easily, or do I need to power through?
5 days isn’t going to work. It has to be every other day or every 7 days, as I can’t keep track otherwise! Wash it when it’s greasy doesn’t work for me either 🤷 I’m not intuitive.
The anti-tech crowd might flame me for this, but I’d argue this type of scenario is a legit use-case for voice assistants, because “remind me to buy ________” is a fairly easy habit to get into and it’s a single step, fast enough to beat the attention bounce.
I’ve tried voice assistants, won’t be viable until there’s at least half a million autistic linux users who iron out all the kinks for a self hosted service.
I bet some FOSS voice recognition projects have matured since last I checked, but the closest I had sketched out in the past required external calls to the local speech kit api on macOS or iOS. We’ll get there. It’s too useful to let big tech have a monopoly on it.
It absolutely would be a good thing for a voice assistant.
But most kickback against voice assistants isn’t the lack of use case, it’s all the other bullshit you have to accept alongside it.
If I could install a voice assistant that didn’t require a constant internet connection and could work alongside other services, I’d use it.
HomeAssistant has seen a bit of a revolution around the concept of voice assistants.
Heard some buzz and have been meaning to read up. The speech service has been the primary puzzle piece binding me to proprietary systems, but if it’s time it’s time.
You can build your own on a Raspberry Pi or similar PC
https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS
Can indeed work offline, but only the basic stuff
I think there’s one on F-droid? Starts with a D. I’m sorry I just woke up and can’t find it.
Edit: its Dicio, oof tho it doesn’t look offline but it does tick the rest of the boxes.
Yes, that is a legitimate use case for that technology.
I do not consider myself anti-tech by any stretch of the imagination (I can put my hands on no less than five computers from where I’m sitting) and I want things like voice assistants and smart houses and whatnot for the benefits they can provide, but we’ve got to pry the invasive corporate bullshit out first.
Yeah I’m with you. In most settings it’s me who is the tinfoil hat. I fully degoogled by 2019, began self-hosting bridgeable services years prior when SBCs and containers made it easier to scale, and all my smarthome artifice is offline save for a limited interface exposed via HomeKit.
But I still make guarded exceptions where the value-add is simply too high to ignore (e.g. using smart phones and fitness trackers) and/or the big-tech privacy commitments still appear to hold (though that’s pretty much down to just Apple now, and I know eventually they’ll turn too).
If it sounds like I want to have my cake and eat it too, that’s because I do, but I agree with you.
Like I stopped using fitness trackers on smart phones because I realized all of them want my data more than they want to be a value add to my smart phone purchase. I don’t want the power company to manage my thermostat because the power company isn’t on my side.
We did that for years, until the products we bought switched APIs making us have to change shopping list apps a couple times, then shut off the feature altogether.
Any tech that requires an outside server eventually gets shut off and you spend my more time managing it than you saved in the long run.
Just toss the shampoo bottle on the floor to remind yourself.
I throw it on the bathroom floor over the curtain. Then i add it to my list on my phone after i dry off when i pick it up to throw it away.
That’s not adhd. That’s called beeing a human.
I think you have ADHD, my dude. Welcome to the club.
It isn’t.
no
It doesn’t even have to be hidden away, the thing you aren’t remembering or even do occasionally remember to do could be in the middle of your living room.
My trick to this is to leave the bottle on the tub/shower floor when I’m truly done with it. It increases the chances that I’ll get rid of the bottle once I’m out of the shower. It does not necessarily guarantee that I’ll remember to grab a new bar of soap or shower gel, but it interrupts my usual post-showdr flow of things enough to up the odds that I will
I open the shower door and immediately throw the empty bottle into the basin that way it will bother me at some point and take care of it
I used to do that too! For some reason it didn’t work as well for me, though. I’d remember to take the empty bottle with me, but I’d forget to replace it before leaving the washroom
I just bulk buy stuff when it’s discounted that way I mot only always have some in the cabinet but also only buy it discounted
**sorry, that’s just being human. **
I swear people online think normal people are super humans who remember everything and new procrastinate or have bad habits.
99 percent of ADHD memes are just describing normal human condition.
99 percent of ADHD memes are just describing normal human condition.
And when a normal human condition becomes a significant problem, we call it a disorder.
Hey yeah it’s funny you ALSO forget shampoo sometimes. Yep, that is normal. Sounds like it’s not a problem for you then. Cool.
“we all pee too, but if you’re doing it 90 times a day there seems to be a problem”
I thought this was standard forgetfulness
only if it happens occasionally! If it’s every single time and you don’t wash your hair for several days, repeatedly, then it’s probably ADHD and an issue that needs to be dealt with.
Where’d i put that?
Successfully managing ADHD means throwing the empty shampoo bottle towards the bathroom door so you’ll see it when you walk out and then write “Shampoo” on the chalkboard hung up next to your front door where you’ll see it before you go shopping so you can put it on the shopping list on your phone.
it’s this, or recognizing that you don’t actually need shampoo and can just buy a life supply of soap bars all at once and use that for washing every part of your body.
i’ve come to recognize that a big part of why i find minimalism so nice is because it brings the amount of things i need to remember down to something vaguely manageable.
If you’re curly, that means having straws in place of hair
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.tasks
App has a widget that takes up 40% of my home screen as a check list (checks disabled so I don’t fat finger them)
I don’t have ADHD, but I do have significant difficulties remembering things and this is the solution that has worked for me for the last 8ish years.
I’ve got a Google mini in the bathroom so I can listen to a podcast while I shower. The side benefit to this is I can yell out to get it to add shampoo to the grocery list
Seriously my adhd management system is basically “putting shit where I’ll trip over it” and then waiting to get sick of still deliberately stepping over/around the inconveniently placed item.
Until watching a different member of the household step over it ONE TIME, at which point it becomes the #1 priority.
Sometimes when I have a great idea but am in bed and about to fall asleep, and don’t want to take out my phone and wake myself up, I’ll grab something off of my nightstand and yeet it into the middle of the floor with the idea in my head, so the next morning I’ll wake up and see the thing and remember my idea… works surprisingly well!
Bold of you to assume I’ll remember to check my shopping list.
I’ve been honing my ability to add things I need to a list on my phone’s home page. I’ve been doing it for 7+ years now. If someone asks 3 years later, how much butter to use for belgian waffles that I made once, I’ll know it is the blue colored note, 5th line from top.
If I go to the store, I’ll still forget I have the list.
You guys make lists? Is it like the notes im supposed to keep?
Idk about ADHD but I buy a bunch of shampoo and conditioner, and when I notice I’m at the second-to-last bottle I put it on the shopping list on Google keep
Hmm…
I really should get tested but I keep forgetting.
I literally always have a second item on hand. The second I open something, I immediately add it toy grocery list. This gives me a lot of time to remember.
Have I ADHD? I thought I was just stupid ^^.
Why not both? :P
I’m at least stupid, maybe both.
Despite the way it’s portrayed in the media, ADHD is underdiagnosed in some groups (women and anyone not white is less likely to be diagnosed in the US, for example). So, maybe. It’s worth talking to a psychiatrist about it if it’s regularly impacting your life.
It can be difficult to figure out on your own whether or not your symptoms are ADHD, because everyone has moments that could count as ADHD symptoms. But for people without ADHD they only happen occasionally or rarely. To steal an analogy, everyone pees, but if you’re pissing 40 times a day it’s time to see a doctor.
That said, if you’re in the US now is a super shitty time to get diagnosed because there’s a terrible ADHD med shortage. My husband’s been without meds for about 2 months now.
Thanks for your serious answer. My bad joke wasn’t deserving such a caring message.
To be honest, I actually don’t think I have ADHD, I’m just the kind of guy who’s always in his head, not actually paying attention. As a teenager I saw a psychologist because I had memory troubles, but he didn’t saw anything strange (and I’m a white man; I’m not American, but racism and misogyny are realities here too).
I hope your husband will receive his meds again soon!
Not sure that I have ADHD, but when I remember to, I put the empty bottle on the floor outside of the shower. I still forget or can’t deal with it when I get out sometimes, but it won’t sit on the floor indefinitely like it will if left in the shower.
It’s scary how you can find other people on the other side of the world doing the same thing as you, always reminds me I’m not that special lol. I do exactly this!
exactly. Squeeze the fucker out and yeet it right out. Some time the same day you’ll walk into your bathroom, find a shampoo bottle on the floor, ask yourself “da heck?” and will remember that you gotta go buy some.
And then Wifey will throw the bottle and yell at me because I don’t throw my junk, and then she will yell at me again because I use her shampoo.
Or you start a game of shampoo bottle “toss” because you nailed her in the head when she was brushing her teeth.
