Really disappointed to lose Pocket. I am a big user of it and found it very convenient to save articles of interest as well as collecting anything that looked interesting that I might want to read. Have both the Android app and use it on the desktop.
Now I'm going to have to find a substitute.
Agreed. There just isn't the variety of films anymore and so much stuff (even the poorly written shows) has to have a "premium" streaming show/film budget. It's all about franchises, reboots and sequels to decades-old-films.
Unfortunately if you're high-masking they usually disagree with you and say you can't possibly be autistic.
Vile and dystopian.
Burnout is a common experience for those of us with ASD. Autistic burnout in particular was only formally defined in 2019, even though the concept had existed for a couple of decades prior.
In your case I'm wondering if it's the more classic occupational burnout since you're feeling up to hobbies (which presumably you enjoy?) after just 48 hours away from work. My personal experience with autistic burnout is that it is really hard going and takes a long time to slowly climb out of.
I find it useful to distinguish between getting overwhelmed (which eventually will result in a meltdown) and burnout itself. Think of it this way: burnout drastically reduces the cognitive resources and energy you have available to deal with life. Effectively that means your available "bandwidth" to manage both sensory input and cognitively demanding situations is vastly reduced. That makes it much easier to get frustrated or overwhelmed. The reduction in cognitive resources also means that our ability to mask breaks down, so we more readily upset people (particularly NTs who don't understand autistic behaviour).
On the work front, I can empathise with points #1 and #2 (not so much #3 as my interoception is apparently quite acute; if you struggle with determining your internal state then I recommended looking up some exercises to help with this, as you can improve it through practice). For years I was the single point of failure at my workplace so I was carrying a lot of stress. There were plenty of tasks that if I didn't do them, nobody else could/would; there were also time-critical things that if I didn't push myself to do in time, I would inevitably end up dealing with the clean-up. My manager did his best to work with me to reduce my workload (I even worked part-time for a while, much of work-from-home), but I was already too burnt out for this to enable me to recover. I eventually collapsed in a heap, prompting my employer to hire additional staff. My (very slow) staged return to work has started with just some knowledge-transfer and advice meetings so that they can continue working on the projects I've been involved with.
Determining when to return to work is not easy and it depends on how badly burnt out you are. If this is a repeated issue with your workplace, then I'd encourage you to talk to your manager/supervisor (if you can) to flag that the workload (and/or environment, if it provides high sensory input) is pushing you into burnout on a regular basis. It is in the interests of the business to avoid doing this, as it means you don't work as effectively when you're burning out and then have to take time off to recover. Usually employers can provide accommodations or restructure the work to some degree to help. The goal should be to avoid you burning out again, as not only is that the best for you and your health, but also gives your employer the best outcome (a productive, reliable employee).
You mention work-from-home, so that's something to look into further - if your job allows (and your home environment is less demanding than your workplace), you could either try to get a regular WFH schedule or have a staged return to work starting with lots of WFH and slowly increasing the time in the office.
I don't know if this applies to you, but I find meetings very draining and so avoiding back-to-back meetings is essential for me at the moment. If you have regular meetings, see if you can arrange with your colleagues to space them out a bit to give you time to recover inbetween.
On the home life front, prioritise your health. Sleep is crucial and anything that disrupts it must be addressed. After that focus on nutrition and exercise, but don't push yourself - that only exacerabates burnout.
The toughest part of all of this is going to be learning to pace yourself. It takes time and practice to identify how much energy or bandwidth you have for a given day and how much you can realistically achieve without making the next day a write-off. Again, if you can look into some interoception exercises to help you better judge your internal state, I think it would help with this (and eventually help you prevent burning out again too).
... this creates a fascinating contradiction: Republican state legislators are pushing for more control over tech companies, while Republican federal legislators are accidentally making that control impossible. It’s almost as if they don’t actually have a coherent technology policy beyond “do whatever seems politically expedient at the moment.”
Emphasis mine. The author is so close to getting it.
Again, likely to be one of those half-baked plans to remove regulation for their benefactors but they lack both the intelligence and understanding of the subject matter to realise what the full implications are.
That is remarkably coherent for a sovcit.
The administration didn't just do this out of the goodness of their heart:
This development follows NED’s March 5 lawsuit resulting from the unlawful denial of access to congressionally appropriated funds, including $167 million in obligated funds and an additional $72 million already appropriated by Congress.
Nor is it a complete restoration:
The partial restoration of funding today allows NED to begin stabilizing operations and resume grantmaking. NED looks forward to ensuring that it will receive access to the full amount of its congressionally appropriated funds, and that its funding will not be similarly interrupted in the future.
Delivery drivers are really hit and miss. I've had some really good ones who pay attention to what they're doing and treat my parcels with care. Others just stomp across the garden bed (plants notwithstanding); the worst I had was at my previous residence where they just threw the parcel towards the door rather than walk up the short path.
Honestly not surprised that Amazon didn't want to pay up until they were forced to.
Not good, but understandable. I'm concerned that we're going to end up in the situation where it will be impossible to get a BD drive for a PC.
Of the thousands of books tucked into the library’s stacks, one author has emerged as a patron favourite: Louise Penny, the bestselling Canadian novelist and creator of the detective Armand Gamache. ... Penny made headlines in recent weeks after donating C$50,000 (US$36,000) to help fund a new entrance to the library, an “elegant” solution to the diplomatic snafu created in wake of new restrictions. “I have the resources to help because of the support of American and Canadian readers. The least I could do is give back,” Penny said. “Plus, it’s like giving the finger to the current administration: you close one door, we will open another one.”
This is exactly what I would do - make sure there is an accessible entrance on the Canadian side. Make it so that if the US really wants to be difficult, they have to put up a wall down the middle of the library.
Based on https://fedia.io/m/selfhosted@lemmy.world/t/2206365/Alternatives-to-MZLA-Pocket I'm going to try Wallabag and/or Readeck. Probably the critical issue is whether you can self-host or not: