SolaceFiend

@SolaceFiend@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon buys a TV without researching⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Many smart TVs have firmware that interfere with your ability to switch sources using the remote for your cable service provider, or causes it to default to a specific source menu or app, or auto-switch between sources when it thinks it’s “detecting” them, even if you were actually using the other one.

  And older people don’t know how to navigate the new user interfaces that come pre-installed on these smart TVs, especially if they have several connected devices on different ports. Have you had to walk a customer over the phone through using the Video Input button on their cable service remote, only to discover the TV software doesn’t allow 3rd party remotes to access the video input menu; because only the TV remote they lost is able to access that menu?

  Or had to look up an article on a customer’s brand of smart TV, and walk them through disabling specific tv settings buried in their menu that prevent the TV from properly detecting and switching between sources, or having to mess with the TV closed captions, because they’re somehow interfering with the closed captions settings on their cable box.

  I have. SmartTV software is occasionally a nightmare to negotiate with when trying to get it to work with a customer’s STB or their wifi, or what have you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resume help⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  One aspect of autism is lacking “mirror nodes” in our frontal cortex that allow neuro-typicals to possess self-awareness while speaking or carrying out a physical action, and thereby being aware of the emotional impact their behavior has on the people around them.

  So, by your definition, I am superior to neuro-typicals by virtue of lacking equipment and firmware that neuro-typicals have, which assists them with interfacing with other members of their own species.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resume help⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I watched the SoftWhiteUnderbelly interview of a guy with OCD who works as a clown, and used to serve in the Navy. His form of OCD wasn’t self-loathing intrusive thoughts but intrusive thoughts that stemmed from the anxiety or fear of something bad happening. Like, the fear that he was going to be dishonorably discharged or drown if there’s a storm, was perceived as a sort of bad mojo that he has to combat with positively and carrying out various ritualistic actions repeatedly until the though went away.

  So, he had times where he had to stand still and repeatedly, verbally tell himself “No, this good thing is going to happen instead”, or perform some mundane action like twisting a knob over and over, because if he didn’t his brain was going to be at him over the head with the negative thoughts driving him crazy.

  In the interview he repeatedly mentions feeling self-conscious about how he must have looked crazy to other people in the Navy or in public, talking to himself repeating the positive thoughts he was combatting his intrusive thoughts with, or repeating a physical action over and over, but the alternative was letting it actually drive him crazy. And a part of him believed if he didn’t engage in those coping rituals, than the things his intrusive thoughts said we’re going to happen, might actually happen. And so those two things were his only coping strategy for dealing with being overwhelmed by all the crippling anxiety and fear, from which his OCD was manifesting.