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by rustcleaner 774 days ago
I am undiagnosed (from a parent who was ADHD anti-diagnostic) as an adult but strongly suspect I too. I've never taken an amphetamine to see if there is improvement.

Privacy reasons aside, a big reason I ditched social media and much of the normiesphere technology is the distract-ability. I take great care and pride in reducing unwanted automated interruptions to zero. My phones only make a noise if a cleared human on the other side is initiating the noise. There are zero "check this out" or "your coins reward is ready" crap pinging me, and I won't have it!

ADDENDUM: my abridged phone stack is:

GrapheneOS (there is nothing better)

Mullvad (audited by police raid) & Tor

Syncthing-Fork (because f' the cloud)

Fennec (+uBlock Origin,Sponsorblock,Tampermonkey)

Tor Browser Bundle (anti-glowie browsing)

BraveNewPipe (multiplatform and search settings)

Seal (decent yt-dlp wrapper)

Session F-Droid & Briar (anti-glowie messaging)