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Very interesting, thanks!

Motivation is a tricky thing. You need to create it, it's not something anyone has innately.

Something I've been using lately, with good results, is to spend a few minutes at the start of each day reminding myself of the vision I have for my future. I previously collected photos or symbols of those things and spend a few seconds dwelling on each of them and trying to imagine how my life will be better then. Cultivate the dream.

A lot of those things I dream of will take a long time to happen so they need to be broken down into smaller sub-goals. Use chatgpt to help with this?

Once my vision has been refreshed I make a to-do list for the day.

Executive functioning is often hard for people with autism. Some of the techniques that people with ADHD use can be helpful, as they have the same issues. Lots of info on the web out there about this and your public library will have free books on it too.

Browser choice is probably going to make just as much difference as distro choice. Modern browsers kinda need at least 1 GB to be usable, ideally more. Depends what you do with it of course.

Try Pale Moon, Falkon and Konqueror.

I no longer care if the blackouts change reddit or not. Viva la fediverse!

Ubuntu or Mint are among the most noob-friendly.

But probably the biggest impact will be whether you go with Gnome or KDE. KDE is more Windows-like so could be a softer landing.

I've read a lot of stories where installing Linux resulted in less support calls, not more. It depends on how ambitious the user is - if they're mostly just staying in their lane and browsing the web it should be rock solid.

80% of the time, compiling something from source is just a matter of downloading the code, opening a terminal and changing to the directory containing the source and running these commands:

./configure
make
make install

It's the same 3 commands, 80% of the time.

Installing the prerequisites can be tricky, if the docs are lacking.

If we knew how hard things were going to be (or how long they would take!), we wouldn't attempt the task. Being a bit deluded about how smart we are is helpful for this.

Plus, there is a lot of autism in IT which sometimes makes people seem like arrogant dickheads even if they aren't.

Try this https://userstyles.world/style/10301/better-lemmy

Here's another user style https://userstyles.world/style/10301/better-lemmy.

It widens the display, changes bright green buttons to blue ones and improves the indentation of replies.

Don't forget to buy thermal paste!

There is only one admin and it is also the only kbin developer.

Kbin is not ready, I'm sad to say.

There are hardly any experienced Rust developers. It's going to be a big problem.