I had the same issue for a Lenovo bios update. I finally just installed windows to go on an ssd memory stick and booted that to do the update.

Use AI, learn the methods, tools, uses. Then keep working through the process yourself like you do now with AI as a partner who sometimes flakes out.

Remind yourself of the tenents of critical thinking regularly. Never just accept what AI tells you. seek proof behind the answers. Think through those answers to ensure you understand the logic behind them.

Fight complacency.

We can’t ignore this. We need to know how it is done if we want to earn salaries. Reality rarely makes a dent in the corporate herd until years later.

By then, careers are obliterated.

There are ways to protect your mind in the meantime.

This is the first time I heard of it, so I’m going to read up. I set up openvpn on my NAS, ensured only the one port is open, and connect to the vpn when I need to access my local network.

Inside, I configured a DAVX volume and use DAVx5 on the phone for file transfer. The vpn uses a certificate and pwd for auth.

I have KDE Connect as well.

I had to read up on that to know what it was about. While I’m all in on unions and collective bargaining, I’m not keen on Communism as a political approach. the original idea was a plausible answer to the woes of the struggle between groups of people, but it does not acknowledge that the problem is human behavior. Specifically, a portion of the population that will always seek dominance, regardless of the means or declared ideology. This is what happened with Communism. The assassination of the white revolution in order to insert the red revolution is class 101 in that fact. The United States’ founders understood this, which is why I’m still behind the checks and balances approach to power.

Yes, it eventually is subverted and must be re-established (sometimes forcefully) but it is as Churchill said, Democracy is the worst form of government… except for all the rest.

Yes, I do tend to over explain and it does annoy people, especially my son. I have a near pathological need to make sure others understand the why. I’m working on it.

Been looking into Stoicism lately, and not explaining yourself (to people who don’t care or can’t comprehend) is one of the tenents - not wasting precious energy.

Well, as a .NET developer, until a few years ago, that hang-up would have been totally justified.

I kept windows in some form for .NET development until Core became viable. Even now I have to keep it around, even in hardware bootable form. VM is insufficient when windows is required to update the BIOS. (Thanks, Lenovo.)

In some respects, I feel ADHD works well with software engineering and hyperfocus can be a superpower. However, increasingly the barriers to entry explicitly require behavior that disqualifies ADHD at the door.

Asking me to give a concise, accurate, and confident answer in something I haven’t thought about in a year, under pressure, generally results in spectacular failure. Ten minutes after the meeting, however, I can recite nuances on the topic most people never consider. Too bad there’s nobody to hear it.

It’s a product they use, not their own. If I were talking to the actual company rep, I might have given it a try.

Whoa! I don’t share i have ADHD, as I fully expect to be shit-canned immediately. How’d you pull that off? It’s crazy that he disability self disclosures include enough examples to cover half the living population, though.

Thank you, and I’m sorry you went through that. I had a similar experience some years back.

Probably because they moved there executive offices last year to someplace far away. Funny how we have to be creative and figure how to “git 'er done” but "they’ don’t, isn’t it?

Doesn’t matter, really, but I understand what you mean.

Old enough to be unemployed due to ageism. I started saving for retirement from my very first post college job. It still isn’t enough. Not because the math doesn’t work, but because other factors like two divorces and two houses “lost” along with years dealing with one spouse who didn’t understand money and another who embezzled $100k with no consequences cost me dearly.

I’m close enough I can go for a few years and take a lower paying job to bridge until social security… except that’s only paying out 60% starting the year before I am eligible. So, yeah… GEN X: Ignored, forgotten, and screwed over. Just another day.

It was not the recruiting company. It was the hiring company. They don’t give the recruiters any details on the process because they don’t want the recruiters coaching the candidates (the ultimate in distrust, let me tell you. Unfortunately, probably based on experience). I literally had to install an extension that had 100% access to everything in the browser so they could read/see everything I was doing, realtime.

I had one take-home project before landing my prior job. I did the best I could, handed it over, and all I got was “we decided to go with someone else”, with zero discussion of what they thought of the work. So, yeah. Not doing that again.

Yeah. I half expect that if I went to the next step, I’d be in an AI Zoom interview next.

In the back of my mind, this was a factor. I felt I needed to be at least one person who would not debase myself just to get a job in which I’d constantly be told to debase myself.

Thank you.

That’s the funny part - they have offices about 15 minutes from where I live and it’s a hybrid job.

Yeah, probably. On the other hand, he probably needs to explain why I didn’t finish the assessment. I handed him my reason. He can do with that as he wishes. Remember that recruiters are people who deal with the same shit to get their jobs, si maybe some empathy.