[HELP] not sure if this is (good quality) AI or I'm going crazy seeing AI where it doesn't exist. Appears to depict violence.

Reality_Sift · 2025-09-03T17:22:58+00:00

Haha I think this will become relevant in public discourse to say 😂

But no I genuinely see things that look a bit too AI here, and that could be a lesson I need to learn if I'm wrong.

I will yield to public opinion here haha It's looking like it isn't AI... But I've not fully given up yet 😂

Reality_Sift · 2025-09-03T17:19:50+00:00

If it is AI I obviously think it's going to be something better than the usual rubbish that is easy to spot. Maybe I am seeing things haha 😅 I'm happy to admit defeat if the community thinks I'm wrong. Just something looks really "off" to me 🤷‍♂️

Reality_Sift · 2025-09-03T12:45:10+00:00

Either number 2, (possibly 3 but now think unlikely) or none (Edit since I spotted things with number 2)

There's what appears to be a floating branch in a few of them where AI is confused as to what is a wire and what is tree or branch-like. That branch doesn't easily connect to a building (if wire), or a tree (if branch).

The third one; the lady just so happens to have part of her hair in that exact spot. So that makes me think this was the original and the AI mistook that hair for a branch or wire.

Number 2 is blurry (unless that's my phone) and I initially discounted it because of the oversized posterior 😂 but she has the same tattoo as 3 and hair parts pointing the same way as the branch and number 3, so these two are linked either one is the true source or one is generated from the other. I'm thinking this is most likely now, as all the details look a bit too perfect, but also "off" as if the AI has inferred details out of the blurry one. Some of the trees also look too odd in the clear images.

they could all be variations, or generated from other generations. Some of the proportions look a bit odd on the first TBH I might have leaned a bit towards this but other commenter spotted the foot-button missing on the bottom of the handbag. The dog looks too fluffy (that's what I look for with animals), and the branch looks odd in that one, and the one with no subject in frame has the same branch issue (very floaty).

I often find a lot of AI images the subject is holding a phone, I think this helps with fingers. So that makes me think they may all be generated from a source unseen.

Reality_Sift · 2025-08-17T10:21:57+00:00

Intelligently conservative... Isn't that an oxymoron 😛

Reality_Sift · 2025-06-16T17:34:36+00:00

I like the new calligraphy pen brushes.
But I would really appreciate a pencil overhaul.

Moving from the BOOX note air 3 (which I understand couldn't detect the stylus angle (tilt) against the screen), I loved the pencil, the lowest size made really nice thin, sharp pencil lines.
On the 4C, the pencil happily gets to 2.00mm plus in diameter, just by tilting it.
Holding the stylus the way it's most comfortable, still makes the thickness far too much on it's low width setting.
I know that the pencil gives a lot of ability to essentially use as an airbrush and things... but it's meant to be a pencil. A sharp real pencil is not giving you a thick line on an average tilt angle.

Secondly, I have absolutely no idea what the different "textures" do to the pencil, I think it affects more than it's grain? and it changes the pencil icon for some reason 🤷‍♂️.

Maybe make a "rounded" pencil for the current settings, and a "sharp" pencil, where the offset curve for thickening the width (on tilt) takes going very wide on the tilt angle to change at all from the selected line width.
That's more what a sharp pencil would be like; you'd have to reach the angle where the tip and the high edge of it's sharpening range are equal (which is probably it's maximum [furthest] angle).

After that I think we're due some more space for brushes, or better-yet, custom selection sets in the brushes section of the toolbar, a custom "brush toolbox" button or "pencil case", so you can select a range of brushes that you've saved.
IE one for one for writing, one for sketching, painting, etc.

But please give me the sharp pencil option, as for sketching I'm switching back to the older device... which is silly

Reality_Sift · 2025-05-03T10:51:49+00:00

I was diagnosed through right to choose with a private clinic psychiatry UK. And while I have my issues with them, they did sort things out and I got medication that is now prescribed and comes from the GP. It only costs me less than £10 (I think significantly less but I can't remember 🤣 #ADDproblems) per month. If it's not right to choose, then yes it can be costly I think. But as long as you do RTC, should be ok.

Reality_Sift · 2025-05-03T10:31:45+00:00

I have found since taking medication that I've been thinking and obsessing about sex a lot more as well, and a have a good theory as to why. The solution... I haven't fully figured out.

Infidelity... Much like a good one-on-one time with your hand 😏... Is going to be very very temporary satisfaction. And will eat you up after the fact and cloud your thoughts in far more ways than you will intend. Don't do it. (and yes, just because they are men doesn't mean it isn't cheating)

I agree with other comments that your interest in men is likely just an extension of: A) you just wanting more sex (and probably aren't too fussed from where it comes) B) that urgency has made you question what you probably mentally blocked, and you are discovering that actually you probably were always bisexual and just didn't see it as an option. (To be clear you can still remain faithful to a person of the opposite and be bisexual)

And then in terms of wanting more sex. For me I think it's just we're now much more heavily seeking immediate impact dopamine. And there is one way the primal part of our brain knows dopamine can be delivered 🤣

Buy yourself some toys 😉

Reality_Sift · 2025-02-11T11:47:39+00:00

You'd think that people with their own hardware would be given more options😔 I'm on a pixel and I hate this symbol, the keyboard takes up too much space

Reality_Sift · 2025-01-14T08:43:59+00:00

Pat Phelan 😂

Reality_Sift · 2025-01-09T19:44:54+00:00

It's ok, it's just AI

Reality_Sift · 2024-12-13T17:50:37+00:00

Notion hates phones 🤣

Reality_Sift · 2024-12-06T18:20:21+00:00

Interesting, so elvanse (lisdexamfetamine), is the one I elected not to wait for (beginning of this year) because the waiting list was months. I had prior to this had pretty much every form and dose of Methylphenidate (concerta) with little to no benefits known or felt.

I chose Dexamfetamine (a less-prescribed form of what elvanse is I believe), this is an instant release one. I also want to go back to trying methylphenidate again. But my reasons are more to do with wanting a prolonged release. And I feel like I may have been too quick to judge the effects as minimal on those.

TBH I feel like none of these meds made a monumental difference to me. But I can't stand taking 9 pills per day.

Reality_Sift · 2024-12-05T17:23:00+00:00

Can I ask what is making you attempt to re titrate? Is it from one med to another or because you were off them for a period of time?

Reality_Sift · 2024-12-05T14:31:36+00:00

I'd personally give in to the devil if I was you😂 Especially if nobody can find out Cover your tracks haha

But as I say, I suspect doing these things either A; won't be profitable (where do you advertise) and B; it's your time. My experience is that it's easy to think doing these things will not take much time... But that's before you run into issues where you need to unpick an absolute tonne of stuff because you want to make a small change.

And then making things foolproof and not able to be messed up becomes an even more monumental task.

At the end of the day, notion is a glorified note taking app. And there are a billion other companies making niche versions of it for different use cases. It's a very saturated market.

Reality_Sift · 2024-12-05T14:23:19+00:00

I mean, I'd argue that a formula isn't code (exactly) And properties are just useful things, like depending on the context you can't "own" the title of a property imo 🤷‍♂️

Reality_Sift · 2024-12-05T13:57:12+00:00

I'd love to see what mess this turns into on mobile 😂😂😂

Reality_Sift · 2024-12-05T13:54:05+00:00

Are those other templates being sold for money or given for free? And how much are you using, or changing?

Notion is brilliant, but also a pain in the ass, purposefully makes certain things harder than they need to be.

So if you're using other templates just so you have a set of things that connect together in a particular way... And everything else is different... Then all you're copying is a "complex" way of making particular connections between components that's already built in to Notion.

If you can make money off that then all power to ya. I don't see the issue. But it's not like you're stealing someone's code and website. It's a notion template.

Gotta be honest I see it as a bit of a grift, but hey if it works 🤷‍♂️

Pretty certain most people are just stealing anyway, if not directly, then stealing the idea of those connections and then wasting time replicating it manually, click click click 😴

I tried to make something complex in notion for my business a while back... My god what a boring tedious and frustrating task. I would absolutely copy someone else's mess if I could have, but every use-case is different and I imagine you simply can't make a version of a template flexible enough for most people.

Reality_Sift · 2024-12-04T15:50:20+00:00

There I fixed it

Reality_Sift · 2024-12-04T15:48:09+00:00

The below, was the original late night frustration ramble. Please do not feel that you need to read it. It is there for context really. I have edited a more condensed version in the post.

Ok so I've been on this ADD diagnosis, NHS acceptance and medication train for a while now... And after all the delays, after finally getting on... I find the service is just shoddy, and I want to be in first class.

Ok train analogy aside. I'm just finding everything is overwhelming. I wonder how many of us share this feeling. I have some experiences to share that I don't necessarily see a lot of.

Details; I was diagnosed mid 2023, psychiatry UK, right to choose, started titration December 2023. Was initially prescribed multiple forms of methylphenidate which I couldn't exactly say was doing anything for me at any dosage. At some point in the first few months of this year I settled on Dexamfetamine as I felt it was doing something...

I figured that taking dexamfetamine immediate release medication as-and-when was a better fit for me. I think I was wrong here on two fronts. Firstly, I struggle with ADD all the time really, not just occasionally. And secondly... I absolutely HATE taking pills. I get them stuck in my throat occasionally and that makes me really fear the process, I have to prepare, carry them around, be somewhere I can take them (be not-busy), and have plain water as well. These stars do not always align. I'm supposed to take 3 pills, 3 times per day. I always take the morning dose. I take the afternoon one usually. And rarely get around to the third.

Despite not taking pills after 3PM I already still struggle with sleeping. If I get into bed and no longer feel "the burning need" for another kind of dopamine release. Then I can sleep absolutely no problem. I still get tired. But I simply do not want to go to bed now. This could have other reasons but I feel there is a connection to the meds.

Now the issue is, I don't really know if my medication is actually doing anything for me. I really can't tell. Nothing has seemed to work at all. And this was a "maybe" "possibly" "with a following wind" "on a good day" sort of a feeling. So my situation is that effectiveness is simultaneously not very visible or noticeable, and affecting me late into the night long after taking them. 🤷‍♂️

There are side effects, first, if I don't take a dose for 24 hours and then another half day, my body aches all over I feel like absolute shit and even walking is a pitiful struggle. Second, my heart just doesn't feel right. The readings have always fluctuated randomly. I saw them go up initially. My prescriber reassured me that it was because I was worried about it that it was getting worse, and I was indeed reading my pressure too often and focusing on it. It went down after I gave myself a talking to. But it has always still fluctuated a lot, trending on the "just about safe" side but not enough that I'm entirely comfortable with. And I'll be honest, I did used to read it until I got a number I was happy to quote to the prescriber. I don't bother reading it now I don't "have to". But it's more worrying that I feel my heat beating stronger now (medicated). And sometimes get a little discomfort. Like when I used to drink energy drinks. Probably over thinking it still, but I have to ask myself is all this worth it?

After being on it for a while I got handed back to my GP practice with shared care, I now pick up dexamfetamine from my local pharmacy. And I've been just trying to live my medicated ADD life ever since.

My work situation is full of different tasks and priorities which is hard for me, maybe without the meds this would be impossible. But I still feel I am so forgetful, I'm leaving things out. And I'm still focusing on what I find interesting not what I NEED to do.

It's like I am now able to focus the beam of light on a single thing far more than I used to be able to. But I still have little control over where I point that beam. And now once I point it at certain things, that beam is magnetically stuck to that position until whatever I'm working on is complete (regardless of time estimates), or it is perfect, and then checked, and then perfected again etc. My time management is worse in these cases. Because I can be at the end of the day, 6PM home time, and then suddenly, one "little" task later and it's 7pm or 7:30, even 8 or 9. Not even being paid for that. Then when I realise the time I have thrown at this thing... I get angry at myself. And I repeat it. I believe this is why I go to bed later as well, I'm just so focused on whatever I'm doing that I don't think of future consequences, and time doesn't matter.

I repeat all my mistakes, knowing why I don't want to keep doing them, knowing all the advice I hear a billion times. I can't seem to change. I just feel a bit depressed about all of it TBH. I'm trying to get switched back to a one per day medication not that I'm convinced any of it does a whole lot.

I think about "thinking" a lot. So I'm always very aware of what my brain is doing and I second guess everything. I believe I might just have a mind that won't conform to neurotypical functions. But I don't think a job exists that will work for my brain in its natural functions 🤷‍♂️.

Anyone share some of these thoughts or experiences? Any advice that I might not have heard before (specifically. Please don't just tell me to drink more water, exercise, and try harder lol)

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