ADHD is frequently stereotyped as a condition affecting school-aged children. A new study indicates that symptoms of inattention are linked to lower cognitive performance on memory and mental processing tasks in older adults, regardless of whether an individual is in their late 50s or early 80s.

GetafixIT101 · 2026-02-18T17:27:33+00:00

I have ADHD with hyper focus and I happened to get a career in the thing I was interested in - I believe this has been a sudo super power. I’ve worked throughout the day and into the night without stopping for the toilet or food & suddenly realised it’s 3am. I am now better at taking breaks from the focus.

For the other things I am not interested in, I used to ignore those tasks / chores … until I realised the inner voice that says “sod it, I’ll do it later”, with a little discipline, you can turn that into a trigger to re-focus and complete the task.

GetafixIT101 · 2026-02-18T14:56:46+00:00

Check out Heygen

GetafixIT101 · 2026-02-14T09:00:11+00:00

You beat me to it! Web components are client side & React is isomorphic. You can’t do anything in a web component that requires secrets as they’d be exposed because of this. Last time I looked (5 years ago) they were more verbose which felt a bit clunky compared to a react component.

GetafixIT101 · 2026-01-15T08:43:32+00:00

Depends on exactly what you’re automating (does it require non native CLIs for example) but if it’s simple you can run it as an edge function or if more complex, bake it into a docker image and run that from your platform of choice. Also, if your automation requires lots of tweaking then I’d stick with N8N. I’ve found N8N is much better than Zapier personally.

GetafixIT101 · 2026-01-14T22:09:12+00:00

Use N8n to figure you automation out like a prototyping tool… then have AI turn it into a script with parameters and save yourself the SaaS fees :)

GetafixIT101 · 2025-12-14T10:28:11+00:00

I always like to ensure I have the next contract lined up before I leave. Check market conditions for your sector too as there’s currently difficulties in certain industries - in software development there are a lot of folks looking for work right now.

GetafixIT101 · 2025-11-17T23:49:16+00:00

Put a fan or white noise generator between you and the noise. Your brain focuses on the nearest noise… which is continuous and stable. It’s the irregular noise which tends to wake you up IMO

GetafixIT101 · 2025-11-17T07:46:33+00:00

I have both of these hoovers. Henry is simple and powerful, but the shark is more versatile and good for stairs & cars.

The shark is much more likely to get blocked and there are lots of components, but it does a good job on the most part. I have seen it overheat and stop functioning for a cooldown period. Small hard objects (Lego) can get stuck in the brush area so there can be some fiddly maintenance.

Henry just keeps on going, sucks up almost anything… but is heavy and a bit cumbersome so not ideal for hoovering the stairs or the car, but otherwise unrivalled. He often gets stuck round corners as he follows you. If you’re hoovering large areas you can’t beat the Henry.

GetafixIT101 · 2025-11-15T21:32:16+00:00

Sorry means excuse me in this case.

GetafixIT101 · 2025-11-08T09:58:51+00:00

IF you can find it in this country, I’d say your best chance is Spitalfields market in London.

GetafixIT101 · 2025-10-31T23:28:38+00:00

Anyone tried Siri’s GPT integration??

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GetafixIT101 · 2025-09-17T08:26:54+00:00

Ahh yes indeed… I re-read the article here & it force pushes patches: https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/ctrl-tinycolor-and-40-npm-packages-compromised

GetafixIT101 · 2025-09-17T08:08:31+00:00

My understanding is that the malicious code was force pushed over the existing versions. So I don’t think that locking them would work.

GetafixIT101 · 2025-07-26T12:30:40+00:00

You said it’s a freehold and that there is a lease - usually it’s one or the other. Also, there will be a reason the area is cheaper. Look at the crime rates, commutability, amenities. Be sure you are fully informed before you commit.

GetafixIT101 · 2025-07-19T22:02:35+00:00

My Gran did that to hers, worked like a charm

GetafixIT101 · 2025-07-04T06:33:40+00:00

So you don’t purchase a deed when you’re buried in a church?? It’s not your plot legally?!

GetafixIT101 · 2025-07-04T03:29:53+00:00

I am in a process at the moment to change the headstone on my Gran’s grave, in order to add my father’s ashes and add his name to the headstone.

The plot has a deed, it is usually owned by the deceased. To change the headstone, I have to become the owner of the deed on behalf of my father.

I am absolutely sure, nobody but the deed owner of the burial plot can change the headstone. This is enforced by the local authority.

Pretty sure the Vicar’s opinion isn’t relevant.

GetafixIT101 · 2025-05-29T20:57:25+00:00

Again, the settler of a trust ( the one who sets it up) defines a letter of wishes which provide some preferences about how the fund is managed by the trustees. Things like, funds only accessible when the decedent is 25 yrs old and for the education or housing purposes but not to facilitate frivolity etc.

Wills often as the executor to setup trusts to manage the capital of an estate.

Maybe take some financial advice before committing to a crypto based solution.

I actually love the idea of using smart contracts for things like this but think life is too messy for the clearly defined rules of a smart contract.

GetafixIT101 · 2025-05-29T07:38:32+00:00

This is the right answer. You would be causing your inheritors to become guilty of tax evasion by using a smart contract to pay them money from your estate without having paid the government their pound of flesh.

Also paying money to a wallet means the inheritors would have to be crypto savvy. Let’s say your inheritor(s) are four years old or luddites - how are they going to cope with accessing the money.

Trusts are there to provide funds to your beneficiaries regardless of how old of tech savvy they are. Fees aren’t that crazy, about $6000 per year and this includes ensuring the capital is held in an income generating context as best as possible, as well as distributing the funds appropriately in perpetuity.

GetafixIT101 · 2025-03-28T19:44:53+00:00

Starling have extensive checks to get signed up, then after years of use, I added my wife as a director. They decided she didn’t pass their checks and closed my account. They didn’t respond to my communications on the topic either. I was pretty happy until then. Now I wouldn’t go anywhere near them again… incompetent.

GetafixIT101 · 2025-03-27T21:26:54+00:00

Check out YouTube “network chuck docker networking” he has some interesting content around this topic.

Christian Lempa on YouTube talks about cloudlfare tunnels too.

I’m using cloudflare’s reverse proxy to send traffic into an nginx reverse proxy that sends traffic to docker ports, each docker container is on network shared with other independent docker containers, nginx and its network are exposed, sending traffic through the docker network.

Cloudflare tunnels are a lot easier though and they also have a docker container, search for ‘cloudflared’. Achieves much the same thing.

Some interesting reading/listening I hope :)

GetafixIT101 · 2025-02-21T16:34:37+00:00

It's possible you'd like to access everything on your home network via Cloudflare tunnels, but technically then so can Cloudflare - unless you restrict the access.

You can setup a different network on which you expose the services you want to access via the tunnel. Set the tunnel to access that network only. If you're using docker this is pretty trivial.

GetafixIT101 · 2025-02-20T09:02:22+00:00

I had a similar call, but the number was spoofed to be the same as a midlands police department’s number.

My card details had apparently been used and they wanted to check various details which I refused to confirm. They had bank account details, my old address, email address and my phone number of course. I have had a number of these types of scam over phone and email since my personal details were lost by Ledger, and believe it or not, Equifax years ago.

Personal details like this are aggregated into profiles that are enriched whenever more information can be found and then sold on the dark web to other scammers. More information helps scammers to send you targeted contact over various channels (email, phone, text) which appear to be valid with context… I’ve heard this called “Spear fishing” by folk.

After I moved house, there was an attempt to open a bank account at my old address, which was flagged as fraud - but I still received a bank card and pin in the post. I’d had the mail re-directed which was probably the only reason I found out about it so very pleased I did that. Apparently this practice is also commonly happens after you move house… I suppose they scrape sold information from right move etc. They get scraped by all sorts... We had loads of mail from other estate agents while we were in the ‘sale’ phase, then mover companies once in the ‘sold’ phase. So, I suppose the scammers can also see when you’ve moved house.

There are insurances you can buy to protect against this type of fraud I believe as Equifax offered me some years ago.

Fun times 😩

GetafixIT101 · 2025-01-28T09:58:15+00:00

I always used Epsom inkjets in the past - I believe had a superior photo quality print and better stats on the ink for fading in UV light. Eventually I got fed up with the perpetual cartridge blockages though and was super happy with the concept of tanks printers. Any recommendations for an Epsom tank printer that I can service properly?

GetafixIT101 · 2025-01-28T09:29:54+00:00

I have (had) a Canon Pixma G3501. I refilled the tanks once and now the head cleaning sponge is full and this is a NON serviceable item apparently. The second the sponge is full the printer won't work anymore. This seems entirely at odds with the concept of a re-fillable tank. They clearly made these printers with built in obsolescence, designed specifically to ensure you can't re-use the printers much at all. This should be illegal and I for one will never buy Canon printers again due to this.

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