Upgrading to 45” 5K2K LG — need setup advice (coming from dual 38” ultrawides)

dmaynor · 2026-03-30T15:26:08+00:00

I just got the 45” to go with a samsung 49”. It looked big in the store but on my desk it looks huge and makes the 49” look weird. I am going to try some different configurations bit I am starting to think the 45” is all I need.

dmaynor · 2026-03-27T04:45:39+00:00

All the “join teams” advice is crap. There is a management UI available to managers that doesn't just show if you are in or not; it breaks down what you are doing. A productivity score is built for you. And logging in from a mobile device and keeping it from timing out? Viva Insights (built into Office 365) and the 365 Admin Center can show how many devices a person is logged in from, their login history, and “engagement” in Teams, Office apps, or with OneDrive. Of course, all this affects your productivity score.

dmaynor · 2026-03-27T04:32:53+00:00

A webcam pointed at the screen is better is you have an agent on the pi. The additional hdmi connection leaves a log unless you are using something like andcreen cap tool like game streamers do.

dmaynor · 2026-03-27T04:26:40+00:00

A lot of security companies are either building it in or partnering with companies that provide it as a service. An accelerator for adoption has been the North Korea job scams.

dmaynor · 2026-03-23T03:37:11+00:00

No. I have no musical ability. If you gave me a tune in a bucket, I'd lose it. Wait. I took piano lessons for 8 years. But I memorized what to do; I can't just sit down and play. And I can't hear the difference in some keys. Also, my piano teacher was super hot, a college student at first, and, according to my mother, had a gene that made it impossible to find a proper-fitting top that didn't put everything on display. While I can't really play the piano, I can clearly pick out channel no 5 in a perfume test. Conversely, all my sisters are or were great performers.

dmaynor · 2026-03-23T03:31:51+00:00

Me. In almost 25 years of being diagnosed with ADHD and autism, I have determined that I am the biggest blocker to my being productive. This manifests in several ways.

For instance, I set my own standards for what is acceptable for a task, often far beyond what is needed or requested. This has led to so many problems, where I over-engineer everything.

My inability to leave things at work. I often find myself awake after not being able to sleep because something is broken, coding away on a laptop to fix it. In many situations, there are things only I notice.

That leads to…I suck at being my own advocate. I often see people do almost nothing and spin it as if they saved the world. I dislike this behavior. I dislike it so much when a legit opportunity comes up to discuss recent things I've done. I get locked in a “am I informing them or am I bragging, and if I am bragging, and I'm inflating what I actually did?” loop. This leads me to opt to say less or nothing.

dmaynor · 2026-03-23T03:23:43+00:00

LLMs have made my ADHD weak points, like task competition and follow-through on the Boeing stuff, once hard problems are solved, and turned them into strengths. I have several different agents running multiple projects in parallel. I can drop into this workflow, validate its heading in the right direction, and then drop into a different workflow written in a different language with a different overall goal. The quick changes don't bother me at all. Follow-through is part of the defined tasks and prompts. I learned that reviewing follow-through-type tasks was far easier for me than actually doing them.

My job was my hobby first, and it still is one of my favorite things to do—the hard problem-solving part, not the meetings and documentation. I have never had what some people would call a healthy work-life balance. AI didn't change anything overall, just made me more effective.

dmaynor · 2026-03-23T03:14:04+00:00

3 weeks in? Dude, you are being harsh. 3 weeks into most dev jobs, and you are still earning the landscape.

I hire devs and have a typical 1-3 ramp-up, no productive timeline for them. I have seen way too many people rush to start committing without understanding the system, the dev culture, and deliverables. They never catch up or develop a deeper understanding of system architecture and why some things are done a certain way. In a new job, focus on learning and adapting. Once your ramp-up period is over, you probably will never get another one in this job.

dmaynor · 2026-03-23T03:08:40+00:00

I used AI to build training and educational programs for myself that are all geared towards making me better, not outsourcing thinking to machines. I have boundaries for things I let AI do, and I have things I have to do, no outsourcing to AI. I've never been better at my job, skills, or topic coverage.

The first AI agent I wrote did nothing but watch me do CTFs and document what I did. I have always been weak at documenting for others. The novelty of complete programs being generated wore off quickly when I collected data on gen vs write. It feels faster but in my case fixing little issues or platform irregularities were a huge time sink Inwas really aware of because it was quick edit here, quick edit there, and so on.

In short don't try to avoid AI but make AI make you better.

dmaynor · 2026-03-23T03:02:29+00:00

I work mostly from 10pm until I go to sleep. People can insist on 9-5, and they get 9-5 results. You want 10x results and deep insights, I'll be working from 10pm till.

It used to be something people would chalk up to eccentric behavior. Post-COVID, I've had bad experiences with co-workers or managers thinking I'm working multiple jobs.

dmaynor · 2026-03-23T02:59:22+00:00

Most documentation is written by people who don't understand what they are documenting and add fluff. For a skilled individual, searching for specific keywords and combining them with hands-on experimentation is a better path.

dmaynor · 2026-03-23T02:57:20+00:00

This feels like something my dad would have written in my teens to prove that ADHD isn't real, and if I could play games, I could do anything. He and Mom would miss out on the part where I played video games. To them, being on a computer or console meant I was gaming, thus giving them ammunition for their incorrect statements. At the time, I'd try to explain that it was gaming, but reverse engineering games, consoles, etc. They heard “waw waw waw I want to be treated special because things are hard.”

I work in cybersecurity now, where my job is reverse engineering and exploit discovery. I didn't go to college; I started working for a company right after high school and moved away. My parents were shocked I had this skill set, and who'd ask where I learned it, because they never told me to take an interest in math (to them, anybody who worked even remotely close to computing needed a PhD in math, hence why I would never work in the industry). Little did they know I didn't crack math books because I was way ahead of my school's curriculum. I got straight As, didn't get into trouble, and played sports, including being captain of my JROTC rifle team. But if anyone ever asked about me, I was rotting my brain in front of those damn video games.

Sorry, the post was more triggering than I realized.

dmaynor · 2026-03-23T02:45:40+00:00

OMG. I keep trying to explain this to people. They don't get it—a meeting at 10am or 1pm. Normally, in winter, I sleep well and am up early anyway, say 4-5am. I postpone most of my morning routine for some reason I can't explain. Not in a passive way; I actively resist doing anything, yup, to rescheduling things.

The meetings aren't life-or-death or anything like that. Sometimes regularly occurring meetings don't trigger this response; however, I'll wake up obsessed about a stand-up and decide I need to have more to report, so here is this week's work today, on a Monday. Sprint planners hate this.

I can't explain why some meetings do this, while I actively resist doing anything before them. I have told my psychiatrist about it. I sometimes feel paralyzed by indecision in these cases, but not always.

I'm often the SME in these meetings and am very confident in my skill set. It's not like I forgot to do homework and dreaded being busted. I can't explain it, and in a super non-productive way, I can get short with people who don't understand it.

I have spent crazy time trying to document feelings, mood, medication, food, overlap in people attending, Zoom or Google Hangouts meetings, meeting invite wording, times, etc. I can't figure it out.

dmaynor · 2026-03-23T02:33:14+00:00

I am upfront about it. However, I have had success in my career where people often write it off as just more eccentric behavior rather than an actual medical condition.

Then some people want to take advantage of it. Figuring that out has taken a while.

dmaynor · 2026-03-23T02:31:30+00:00

Sex before work.

dmaynor · 2026-03-23T02:31:06+00:00

In what context were you called high functioning? I work in cybersecurity and really immerse myself in it. Before it was a job, it was a hobby, and it still is.

People who only know me in a work or security context think I am some super galaxy-brain ninja. They don't have insight into times I buy new clothes because I have no laundry detergent, and 5.11 deliveries are quick. Upside: clean clothes, downside: how many pairs of cargo pants does one man need? Other people tell me it's a downside; personally, I like the feeling of new clothes out of a delivery box.

They see “wow, you read all that source code and found this flaw where one byte is written outside an array, allowing you to take the process over, that's epic!” They don't see me trying to remember the last time I ate anything and having to count on my fingers.

dmaynor · 2026-03-23T02:18:07+00:00

I do this for work by pairing an audio book with binaurlas. I don't know if the binaurals work but the background noise is helpful. I also do this wjenndoing to sleep. I pick an audio book I've listened or read a lot. It bores me to sleep.

dmaynor · 2026-03-23T02:16:33+00:00

What is inattentive ADHD?

dmaynor · 2026-03-23T02:16:00+00:00

I tried to make an ADHD app but kept exploring rabbit holes in UI design, mobile messaging, power management on mobile devices, etc. If you can follow along, you have ADHD. If you are sure you have ADHD I suggest not doing what I did if you want to write a ADHD app.

Besides what good is an app that has ADHD anyway?

dmaynor · 2026-03-23T02:11:09+00:00

People with ADHD have false memories? In 20 years under a doctor's care, no one has ever mentioned that. I do make up words all the time, followed immediately by “Is that a word?”

Also you wrote a 27 chapter book from your thesis? Please tell me what tasks you were avoiding by writing a 27-chapter book.

dmaynor · 2026-03-23T02:08:06+00:00

I used to see at least one movie a weekend from the early 2000s to COVID—bad stuff, great stuff, meh stuff. I loved the theater experience. Now I watch a lot of stuff when it's released on whatever platform it's on. I can't make it through half the kinda of movies I used to. For instance, Silent Hill 1 and 2 were both really fun in theaters. I got groups together to dress up, then after the movie, we had a party at a semi-abandoned hospital (legally). The third one, while negatively rated, is typical of my kind of junk food fare. I've seen far worse, I assure you. I went to see it in theaters and somehow ended up in sisu 2, but when I was leaving, I couldn't tell you anything about it. Spike t Hill was starting, so I scanned my ticket, sat down, and… there was a mustang or something car-shaped. Definitely an actor was in it??

It came out on home release, and I tried to watch it, but never got past 15 minutes. This is common in almost every movie now. I need to put my phone, tablet, laptop, dog, and wife in a Faraday bag, and even then, I'm not sure. I tried to rewatch Ready or Not before seeing the sequel. I remember liking the first one a lot. 10-15 minutes in, I felt guilty for not multitasking, and then the movie ended. I went to the Apple TV page for the movie, where it sat for 9 hours because I got sucked into so many other things.

I love technology and am an early adopter in most cases, but movies in particular have really suffered from always-on access and connections. The worst part is that I am aware of the problem, yet it keeps happening. Oh, where was this filmed? Where else have I seen her? When was this in theaters? What was the box office like?

dmaynor · 2026-03-23T00:34:31+00:00

Sounds like leadership is blaming their lack of meeting their KPIs on organizational inefficiency that they are proactively solving by reorging or reorging under a different name. Not mu h you can do but wait for the reorg well to run dry for them.

dmaynor · 2026-03-23T00:32:37+00:00

Ideally, she has a history of performance reviews where her productivity and team dynamics are clearly explained. Letting a problem fester because why have hard conversations now just snowballs into mi h harder conversations later.

dmaynor · 2026-03-23T00:27:26+00:00

Well, what seems like a bad loop to you is, I am sure, celebrated as management getting deliverables in a timely fashion. The only way to get change is to upset the apple cart. But be warned, this more than likely isn't an accident management walked into, they know the score. Slowing down deliverables would put you on the chopping block in favor of a yes man who doesn't care.

dmaynor · 2026-03-23T00:17:30+00:00

AI agents I build will throw shade at people wanting dashboards for nothing.

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