I ask before I take the interview. Location, salary range, linux laptop are prerequisites to me working for anyone. If they punt on the laptop question it means no and they are hoping you'll want the job even without. I can promise you I won't, and if you view that as a red flag I can promise I don't want to work there so I don't care.

If its a hard requirement for you just say that and say that's for workflow and you don't want to waste anyone's time

I was already full Linux, but gnome is the reason I stopped messing with window managers and maybe large 4k monitors.

It finally hit enough of 'just works' and customizability to use my standard workflow.

The only thing I want that I don't have right now is horizontal monitor splits for vertical monitors.

Absolutely, it seems to me that a larger than normal portion of the IT industry is full of people with ADHD. Especially systems, networking and security type jobs where knowing a little about everything and then being willing to dive deep on something is extremely helpful.

Large complex systems require large complex knowledge bases to run, and curious people that tend to learn everything about something that catches their attention instead of shrug and walk away as soon as its working endup having diverse skillsets.

Obviously, you'll still have to learn to moderate it if you want to be employable. But, there's defiantly a world out there where curious people that love to learn a stack of assorted skills and are quick pattern matchers can excell.

Even better, go find yourself a poorly maintained and managed stack where everything is a fire drill and all the sudden you're in focus mode all the time. Your work queue is just a stack of the most pressing issues and your brain is wired to be energized by the new, unknown and urgent.

Some people fatigue from being presented a giant unknown issue while someone is standing behind them with a stop watch or, more likely a lost revenue counter. Not you, buddy, that's you're home turf. 'Mean time to recovery' of complex systems that you've never even heard of isajist the score on your favorite game.

Now, here's a big big caveat. You can't live your life in a healthy way running under stress 100% of the time. And you can't deliver longer term system improvements that solve the stress problem by just banking on stress to fix your executive function. So at a certain point, it starts to be career limiting.

You'll go from the tech that can figure anything out to the engineer that knows the whole system but can't drive meaningful process improvements and keeps the stack in the same disarray. Your job as you advance is to make to make your massive systems look less like your brain over time.

And here's the good news. You have a deep catalogue of failure modes in your head. And your gut instinct is going to be right a lot of times as you start to build or replace systems.

The catch, at this stage is that you'll need to learn how to articulate your years of high pressure undocumented fixes (instincts) into guiding principles you can show to people and explaine why its better.

You'll have yo learn how to timebox deep exploration, how to finish your full tasks, how to plan and predict the amount of time it takes you to get things done.

I should do a more detailed writeup at some point. But, let's be honest. . .

I expect there are many trades like this, some where you can just live in that world where work comes out of a queue and you work until its not an emergency. I bet being an EMT or other type of first responder, would be a good ffromnt I assume a lot of kitchen staff in fast paced restaurants all have it.

I worked as a tech for years in factories with large machine and convayence systems, more mechanical than computer, same deal.

I've been a Machinery operator, and that was great, I could hyperfocuse and deliver, good with the machines because your predicting how your actions will affect the thing the machine is operating on. And, if you're interested in the struggle for perfect efficiency with your machine, you can play the game where you try to cut every available motion to only essentials. Did you know if you're loading a truck far away, its still (almost always) faster to return to your pile backwards than to turn twice? You'll know that because you've got the brain capacity to excel at your job while tracking patterns and doing side quests.

Did you know that roughly 10-15% of the wear that is put on the skid skidsteer tires is unnecessary? That's right, I ran a machine with bike tire odometers on all for tires. If you lift the front tires with the bucket whenever its empty and you turn you can save a considerable amount of rotations on your tires. But do note, that the optimal tire savings is inversely proportional to the replacement time on the front bucket edge, so factor in the surface you're turning on, can this turn be moved from the street to the lawn without slowing total round trip? You'd want a stop watch in your cab for that shit. Can I make a single wide turn instead of a tank to save rubber without slowing down my total speed? Which also brings us back to, can I keep time and just go backwards one way so I never have to turn at all? Hey its 5pm . . .

ADHD is kinda cool in some ways. No one thinks about that shit the same way you will. What really sucks is the start of your life is the school part, and that is hard all the way around, but when you get out into the real world, there's all sorts of things you can do and probably do better than other people, but you have to learn to work within the constraints your mind gives you.

Check if your motherboard has a watchdog function. If the OS can't ping the watchdog every 5 min or whatever you set it to, the board resets.

Heh, imagine the US giving out 6 months for campaign finance impropriety. Lol, about to take a hard pass on straight sedition.

There's a vast majority of the population that doesn't care.

Because even for me, a full time systems coder, just figuring out what server to join was a pain, I had to try 3/4 time before I felt like I had enough info to make the correct choice, and then finding other users from my previous twitter gang was a pain, the barrier to entry is much higher than some other options.

Um, before that, they tried to exile them to Europe and north America. What we are seeing is actually a compression of the previous timeline.

Huh, isn't that how the Holocaust started?

I wonder what the final solution will be?

Idk, not doing things because they "don't matter" is a lot of how we got here in the first place.

Lots of only, "playing to win" while ignoring anything that wasn't on the specific map to winning.

Lol, he wants it to be wechat but forgets that everyone uses it because its a government sanctioned monopoly.

No one wants a dating/chat/payment/microbloging/uber app.

Link your ride data to your dating profile? What could go wrong you fucking donkey.

I def can. No one is hiring this is a layoff. If you're a recruiter and still there you're keeping your mouth shut, pretending to work in something and showing up threevdays a week