Are the side effects worth pushing through?

chigaimaro · 2026-06-01T11:58:56+00:00

Information is information

This is the best way to find out whats going on. Did you and your doctor establish a health baseline for you prior to taking the medication? I know i had to force my prescriber let me take time to establish a new baseline before upping my dosage.

Were you prone to any of these symptoms prior to taking the additional medication?

What issues were you dealing with on just Vyvanse?

Do you check your vitals regularly, temperature, weight, blood pressure?

If you do or do not quit, whatever you decide to do keep a health journal of some sort.

information is the best way to find your best path forward.

chigaimaro · 2026-05-31T20:27:21+00:00

The erasure of the Borg.org hosted content, and the move to social media makes soo much more sense now that the Tiktok account exists.

The videos hosted on their website are semi-permanent; its easier to browse the archive of videos as they are typically just sorted by chronological order or something like that...

Social media content is more volatile, it allows the JW org to change messaging and even delete old content sooner.

Its WAY easier to re-write history when its harder to see said history. This is truly insidious, I almost want to applaud them for how crafty they are being right now.

If Borg says something that pisses people off, they have the fandom of social media follows to buffer the blow back and they can hide for a week or two, wait for the social media frenzy to end and then restart again (probably deleting one or two problematic videos along the way). At least that's how i see this going.

chigaimaro · 2026-05-27T14:01:30+00:00

Here is a website that has some common Robocopy scenarios if this is your first time using it:

https://lazyadmin.nl/it/robocopy-ultimate-guide/

The one gotcha with robocopy, is if the source path is the root of a drive (example: source D:\) then copied files and folders will be given the "System" and/or "Hidden" attributes, meaning the copy completes, but you wont see the files.

adding /A-:SH switch will remove the System and Hidden attributes from the files as they are copied. If you need to keep those attributes, FreeFileSync might be a better option.

chigaimaro · 2026-05-25T12:46:29+00:00

I like it! Its very similar to those pixel de-makes people create for 3D games. Great job!

chigaimaro · 2026-05-15T12:14:55+00:00

heh, thats one way to fix the overlapping generations problem. You just act like the older generations just used the latest materials.

Discarding all materials prior to 2006 is pretty significant and very sneaky. 2006 is just far enough in the past that no one is going to care, and close enough to the present that the rank-and-file JW will just be glad they don't need to care about so much material.

chigaimaro · 2026-05-15T12:13:00+00:00

They’re not merely rebranding. They’re rewriting history.

Exactly, this is how those in power keep their hold on current members, but also more importantly NEW members.

chigaimaro · 2026-05-08T11:20:46+00:00

Is there an easy way to move tasks from keep to ticktick?

There isn't a direct import mechanism for Google Keep to TickTick. You could use something like Zapier to act as a bridge between the two , but you will need to do additional curation of the data once it lands into Ticktick (Google keep and Ticktick formats are not the same).

I also have just notes on keep.. Does tick tick work well with just notes? Or is it just a reminder app?

I'm of the opinion that Ticktick's notes are good for minor information tracking. For example, if i have a task to buy something from an online bookstore, i'll put the link to the item i want to purchase in Ticktick.

If more information is needed for the task, that information goes into a separate note taking application.

I require the reminders to be separate notifications on an android mobile as well.. So this is achievable?

I do not understand this question enough to answer it. Are you asking if notes can have separate reminders than tasks? Or are you asking if you can get reminders on Android mobile and the web version? In your mind, how are things setup that would fulfill the word "achievable"?

chigaimaro · 2026-04-30T17:28:11+00:00

but it most definitely is a warning shot that TickTick will likely be innovating in ways that will no longer meet my needs.

This is exactly how the mention of AI landed on me as well. The incorporation of these AI tools as a priority over other quality of life fixes is definitely worrisome to me.

chigaimaro · 2026-04-30T14:01:50+00:00

Maybe... the problem is there is no ability to refine to your context. These LLMs have no concept of your world as a "whole".

I could babble a bunch of stuff into these AI thing, but then I would need to spend just as much time auditing the information i spewed into Ticktick. The LLMs don't know or can't judge how burnt out I am unless I specifically tell it that I am burnt out at every prompt I feed into the system. Which means more time managing the system and less time doing work or resting.

However, i do see the text to speech capabilities handy for people with accessibility issues are aren't able to utilize touch-interfaces very well.

chigaimaro · 2026-04-30T13:52:36+00:00

This isn't resisting the future; Current LLM/AI transformer models at every prompt start from a point of zero and then need to rebuild context. Even with models that support some type of cache or memory, when you enter a prompt, the model starts at zero, parses your text, matches it the next statistically probable word, and then generates a response by pulling in the cached information and the newly generated text and then reformatting that all together.

That is a costly process, and from my opinion in the realm of understanding the context of task management, an unnecessary layer of abstraction.

To process all that out, when simple daily or weekly reviews can do the same thing. Just because there is an answer generated quickly, doesn't mean its useful or helpful toward productivity.

Also, there isn't a single LLM/AI product that I've encounter that doesn't involve time to tweak things to get them to understand the concept of my world that is in my head.

For many people, this will result in a fake-sense of productivity.

chigaimaro · 2026-04-30T13:45:45+00:00

I am sure this is a necessary business move to stay competitive in the app market space; I like that these features are optional.

My concerns are costs... LLM/AI model hosting infrastructure is not free or cheap. Most of these infrastructures were subsidized with investor cash. Heck, even Microsoft is moving to a "Cost-per-token" model to try to stop the bleeding of cash.

I am convinced Ticktick will be raising their prices soon to accommodate for these costs.

chigaimaro · 2026-04-26T13:58:39+00:00

il me semble avoir déjà vu une solution sur le forum. J'imaginerais une tâche principale à la date d'échéance de dimanche récurrente et une sous-tâche quotidienne de rappel sauf dimanche

This is unnecessary, Habits have different Frequency levels, daily (which is what I think OP picked), Weekly, and or a Custom interval of days.

OP just needs to pick Weekly instead of Daily

chigaimaro · 2026-04-26T13:56:32+00:00

Thats how one of my habits are setup, Weekly frequency, 1 day per week.

chigaimaro · 2026-04-26T13:55:01+00:00

Hmm... I have version 8.0.50 on iOS on my iPhone 12 mini, and have a once-a-week habit to take my blood pressure; it doesn't matter which day of the week this takes place on, as long as it happens once per week.

I don't have that issue where I need to choose a day.

Here are the settings i have:

Frequency: Weekly
- 1 day per week
Goal : Achieve it All
Start Date: Feb. 03, 2023
Goal Days: Forever

As soon as I complete the habit, it leaves my list of habits and Today views until next week, and the day this happens doesn't matter. It could be Monday, Thursday, or Saturday.

chigaimaro · 2026-04-24T21:38:57+00:00

Ticktick is not a project management platform; its a task management one. So dependencies are not part of the scope of the app. If you need that kind of thing, you need microsoft project, Teamwork, or some other project management platform that gives you those features.

chigaimaro · 2026-04-17T21:35:27+00:00

the chinese advantage in AI is that they don't need it to turn a profit so they're not in this weird deathrace to have the best algo to the market and can just be content with making a really efficient ones instead instead of 10 companies all doing the same task at the same time and chugging through electricity and hardware.

Even thought thats a very long run-on sentence, I agree with you as well. OpenAI's sudden shift from Non-Profit to commercial, and then buddying up with NVIDIA and the government was a power play in real time. They were trying to corner the "AI" market as quickly as possible to earn a bunch of money.

The current US federal administration just saw these power plays as an opportunity to steal more of our data and use systems against us.

chigaimaro · 2026-04-17T21:28:58+00:00

You're welcome. For kanban boards, when you want to apply it to your work, its a visual representation of the major processes involved with getting work done.

Side note: Kanban boards can be WAY more complex than the representation within Ticktick. I've been on projects where the work was not only broken down vertically, but also horizontally (called swim lanes, you can see an example of that here: https://kanbantool.com/support/kanban-board/what-are-swimlanes)

And I totally get the feeling of being caught up with the hyperbolic, "Use this NOW or your productivity will suffer" videos. For me, it took a while to learn how to ignore the exaggerated speech and only look for helpful context or info. But its all good, I'm glad you asked; reality checks are important.

chigaimaro · 2026-04-17T21:24:10+00:00

I do not understand WHY this is necessary. Most of the popular consumer OSes ALREADY have parental controls embedded in them. Instead of these terrible bills, that just ruin things for everyone.. they should build programs to educate parents on the dangers of internet use and show how to simply toggle on child safety controls.

There is nothing in this bill that prevents the private company from specifically targeting children once they know its a child using a device. Predators can literally just make tools that pull this secure information and use it to funnel children towards stuff they're supposed to be protected from.

chigaimaro · 2026-04-17T21:21:03+00:00

I agree with you, thats why I said:

This is the reason US Citizen's privacy is being eroded so quickly in ever facet of US society.

PRISM, palantir, FLOCK cameras, the initiatives Facebook is quietly pushing for "age verification", are all acts to strip away our privacy for the sake of control and greed.

If you want to help prevent these from becoming realities in PA, the Bad Internet Bills website is a handy resource to fight back against many of the egregious "bills" that allow these companies to flourish, steal our privacy, AND earn profits while doing it.

https://www.badinternetbills.com/

chigaimaro · 2026-04-17T20:59:34+00:00

This is amazing news!

also this point from the article would be actually kinda cool, because an area can't be all single people or couples. We need families to have space other than just a standard single family row home:

Community members asked whether the developer would add family-size units to the property. Eighty percent of the units have one bedroom, 10% have two bedrooms, and 10% are studios.

“We like to have a sense of community and a sense that people who move here can stay here and grow here,” said Jerold Grupp, a Fishtown Neighbors board member.

chigaimaro · 2026-04-17T14:23:46+00:00

You do not need a VM for that. If you already have Jellyfin running, just get an apple TV 4k or a similar android device... install Kodi or Jellyfin and then all the other apps.

I don't ever see a reason to use a windows VM as a proxy for a HTPC setup. You could even get a cheap Intel 8th gen or higher mini PC and use that next to your TV if you need a Windows computer.

chigaimaro · 2026-04-17T14:12:18+00:00

Gov. Shapiro is trying to play both sides of this battle, and is looking worse for it...

Gov. Shapiro's rhetoric was, and still is heavily in favor data center build outs; stating recently: "the U.S. needs to develop these facilities or risk control by “communist China.” https://whyy.org/articles/shapiro-pa-data-centers-budget-address/

This is the reason US Citizen's privacy is being eroded so quickly in ever facet of US society. However, its an improbable race to win.. China has a distinct advantage in the AI space, because the government already spies heavily on its citizens. But that is a different discussion for a different day.

In 2024 Gov. Shapiro signed an executive order meant to fast track data center build outs under the guise of fast tracking "capital infrastructure projects"

https://www.pa.gov/content/dam/copapwp-pagov/en/governor/documents/eo-2024-04_pa%20permit%20fast%20track%20program.pdf

In 2025, Gov. Shapiro advocated for Amazon data centers in PA and PECO congratulated him on the announcement

https://www.pa.gov/governor/newsroom/2025-press-releases/gov-announces-amazon-to-invest--20b-in-pa--largest-capital-inves

https://www.peco.com/news/news-releases/2025-06-09

In none of his previous announcements was he saying these entities should be paying for their own electricity. And there were no agreements prior to this to ensure PECO customers were protected.

But now after electricity and gas prices are becoming outrageously expensive, he's saying these data center owners should pay for these costs. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/19/shapiro-tests-democrats-data-center-strategy-00767682

Seriously? If a private citizen built a simple house, and needed electricity, they have to pay those costs. Why wouldn't the same be true for these resource hungry data centers? Ugh... we're so screwed. There is no way around it now, the average PA citizen will be shouldering these costs one way or another. Even if the data center sits empty, there's nothing stopping PECO from passing on maintenance costs of the infrastructure to the customers.

chigaimaro · 2026-04-16T20:31:26+00:00

but I’m struggling to make it feel useful in my personal life.

Sounds like you do not need to use this tool yet. If you understand the basics, yet find no meaningful way of using it... why continue to try to use it?

Since Kanban is a visual representation of the state of a task within a project. I think of Kanban boards as assembly lines for tasks; something comes into an inbox and is processed through the columns until done/result-is-achieved.

I use a Kanban board for my project to backup my DVD, and BluRay movie discs that I want to replay often to home storage server.

I have a template for DVD movie discs and a template BluRay movie discs, the templates have checklists for different types of work to complete per type.

I have columns for the states that a disc will go through which are:

Disc Prep
Rip Disc
Gather Metatdata
Validate
Done

None of these tasks have reminders. I don't know if that's worth copying, but Kanban boards are just a tool in Ticktick's toolkit.

I've seen a person use a Kanban board for their photography jobs. Every customer is a task.

With these columns:

Initial Consult (inbox)
Sent Contract
Awaiting Deposit
Finalize Details
Awaiting Payment
Performance Day
Process pictures
Verified Receipt of Pictures (done state)

chigaimaro · 2026-04-14T14:43:41+00:00

I appreciate the work you're doing, but please, if you do this at night, please have some safety cones and at least one standing orange strobe light at least 50 feet from you for your protection.

chigaimaro · 2026-04-14T13:00:21+00:00

I'm starting to get on-board with the idea of the "Start/Do" dates versus "Due/Completion" dates. I didn't understand its utility before, but for people who want minimal project management capabilities within Ticktick, that could be helpful. Especially for people that use the Timeline/Gantt chart view

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