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I worked at KFC in high school, the girl who ran the register got that so many times she finally snapped and would respond to instance of this lame joke in a totally monotone voice while looking them right in the eyes "oh yeah, never heard that one before, ha......ha........ha" she got so many complaints filed against her it was hilarious.

Yep, years ago there was a massive jackpot for mega millions or Powerball, I can't remember. I was hanging out with a buddy and we got to talking about what we'd do if we won. Of course we joked about all the stupid things we'd do, but after that night the thought stayed with me and I've put a lot of thought into it.

After years of thinking about it I realized that when I take vacation from work, I stay home but I work on projects I care about. Homelab, open source, animal welfare, ect. I have severe ADHD and can't stand just laying around, so I know I wouldn't stop working, I'd just stop working to live.

I even spent one weekend researching and developing a plan for if I actually won and put it all in a folder so I can just open the doc and see my plan, then take that an the spreadsheets to the lawyers, asset manager, and CPA, and protect myself and the money. Definitely not a obsessive ADHD weekend.....lol.

As it stands right now I'd take $5 million and live off dividends, each parent gets $5 million, and anything left over goes into a nonprofit foundation I would set up to fund all the open source and nonprofit projects I care about.

When people ask me why I waste money on the lottery, I just say I don't want the money to be rich, I want the money to be free. Also I only spend $12 a week to play, the only time I buy extra tickets is if I win a few bucks on a ticket, then I just cash it in for some extra draws.

The previous windows install is the only thing I can see as the common denominator, I've installed Mint on three computers that started with no OS, and the Lenovo that was a Win 10 computer that I now have issues with.

Sorry I don't have any real answers, I wish I did since I'm having issues with a laptop too.

Is the computer an old windows machine? I had a Lenovo laptop a while back that was a win 10 machine that I ran DBAN on then threw Mint on. After about a year of slow but solid performance I started having Grub issues and I just got sick of debugging it and gave up on it since it was just a hand-me-down and I prefer my desktop.

Oh the irony of that 80's commercial....

That's actually a good idea, just a tiny local model just to help you learn how to work in a terminal. I would have loved that when I first made the jump, the RTFM crowd almost made me give up.

I've been running Mint for years and have never experienced this issue. Either I'm lucky or your not. I say give Mint another shot, the devs have put in a lot of work over the years.

I'd rather just not understand the meme.

It all boils down to steam....

Same, I pay for basic ChatGPT and use free Claude. So many things I would start, get overwhelmed by, and never go back to left sitting. Now "hey AI I have this thing, help me with it" and I'm done with it. I set up a project just for my homelab and having that has helped sooo much, it remembers my setup and tells me how to do what I ask it within my infrastructure, saves so much time. Not to mention the proposal for work that I was struggling with, had it help with the research and give me an outline to follow and I had that thing written in a weekend.

I honestly think everyone with ADHD should learn to use AI, it's a no judgement productivity game changer.

No you snap the strap/cord, but it still requires two pats, though the pats can be subdued with palm resting on the object and only the fingers doing the patting while you slightly lean against the object to subtly prove your point.

Back and knees here, Aleve twice a day, Advil for flare ups. I'm pulling for ya, we're all in this together.