129 points

The ADHD cope to research a thing for tens of hours across weeks or even months, agonizing over the purchase of the thing (especially if multiple options are available) before ultimately deciding that it isn’t worth the relatively minuscule cost.

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36 points

I’m so glad I’m not the only one. The stereotype of impulse buying is overshadowed by the compulsive need to absolutely make sure the dopamine high off the product is worth the money spent.

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25 points

Multiple options will one day be my demise.

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7 points

I have a problem where everything that I want to buy has been discontinued years ago, so my days of research end up being all for naught by the time I’m ready to pull the trigger. I really need to start reading the publish dates on web pages…

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8 points

Why do we do this, and then sometimes buy crap on impulse and then regret such low quality products without any research? I hate that trait of mine. There’s no in-between.

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38 points

He missed a step before and some after:

Do everything humanly possible with the thing, learn exactly how it works, become subject matter expert, then put it somewhere.

Have someone randomly ask about the thing, knowledge dump, excited to show the person the thing, forget where you put it.

Be at home a few weeks later, find the thing, be sad you couldn’t find it earlier, put it in a new pile, for sure you’ll remember where it is this time!

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35 points

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29 points

My rowing machine

In its box

In the basement

For the last year and a half

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7 points

Hi me!

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5 points

If you are not physically active in other ways I encourage you to fetch it from the basement and set it up this weekend

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Thank you. My partner and myself have not at all been active for a while due to medical issues. There is no raisin we couldn’t use a rowing machine now, though. We need to… be people.

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Easier said than done, and I’m in the process of doing it right now as well, but you gotta get used to breaking the constant cycle of “I gotta do it” and replace it with “I will do it now”.

Doesn’t work every time, doesn’t work every day, but every time is a large success that makes my day better and my head a nicer place.

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31 points

I see this guy also bought a Flipper Zero

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12 points

I used mine to get into my office building until someone got suspicious.

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3 points

How’d you do it

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It’s pretty easy to scan and emulate NFC keycards and such on the flipper. I’m guessing that’s what they did. I’ve been meaning to try it out with mine.

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4 points

I scanned and copied my RFID keycard.

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9 points

Me too thanks. I can read my cat’s microchip now, which is cool, I guess.

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It actually came in handy for that since we got a dog with a chip but not the paperwork, and were able to register her with the service.

Gotta figure out how to make it work with my garage doors next

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3 points

Well he certainly got into Meshtastic!

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