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  • It’s awful for anyone with any neurodivergence.

    “You HAVE to fit in or be ostracized” - So we try, some of us end up hating this mask we’re forced to put up in order to appease the normies and the cultural norms, I certainly hated mine and hate places where I have to put it up. Seeing through the bullshit of many norms makes fitting in even more challenging.

    Schools and culture as a whole aren’t teaching kids to understand and respect different behaviors (within reason, obviously, disruptive behaviors shouldn’t be ignored), only to enforce existing social norms, ridiculing and excluding those that fall out of it until they comply or go away.

    I suppose another thing that makes it worse for girls is that they don’t have as much leeway in expected behavior as boys do. Girl groups can be much more cruel with their peers than boys

    Something that might be helpful for people with ADHD or other neurodivergences, is habits through repetition. You have to create good habits, especially of the things you know are good for you - drinking water, exercise, cleaning your home, study. The bad news is that creating habits is hard and can take 6 months or more, depending on the activity. The struggle is real and I keep failing in creating some good habits for myself :/






  • If you ever worked on any big corporation, it becomes crystal clear why things suck. Megacorps value money first, second, third, fourth and fifth. Sixth comes avoiding being caught by their crimes.

    So, Microsoft doesn’t have a vision for Windows as an operating system, it sees Windows as a way to maintain a stranglehold in office computers the world over. It doesn’t matter that most people on lemmy will say “switch to linux”, they’re not companies, they’re not bosses - these are the vast majority of Windows users and South America + Asia + Africa make up a fuckhuge market. Sure, Europe and USA have more money, but the rest have sheer numbers.

    Another thing that matters a lot is that many decisions come from the top and are enforced. If Satya Nadella or the director of whatever bullshit says something, those below have to comply. If the order from above is “cram bullshit ads in Windows Explorer, this has the highest priority”, that has to happen.

    Regarding resources, having them and allocating them in a decent manner are not the same thing. The same could be argued about USA having trillions of tax dollars and having so many people living in poverty without healthcare or even basic education. Lots of that money go to keeping their armed forces. Microsoft is not too different, they have to pay people who keep their datacenters up, pay for the energy of said datacenters, maintain several other apps they have - oh, and the CEOs bonuses, because he’s such a great leader who totally deserves billions every year!!! Of those 300bn, how much are they diverting for Windows in general? 50b? 20b? 1b? Of that, how much is going straight for security, bug tracking and quality assurance?