If anyone in your family used it…

But yea, not mine either.

Oh, shit, you’re right - exactly what I do.

It’s why OneNote has been a blessing/curse for me.

Find a book (ha!) on ADHD in adults.

Check out How to ADHD on YouTube. I’ve always found it humorous how the very structure of her videos is targeted dead at people with ADHD: she well understand how to keep your attention.

Hence motor-cycle? 😁

Damn, must be nice to have enough working memory to do this! 😁

Neat idea, though, I’m sure many people can use this.

Find/make a recording the equivalent of lorem ipsum. Turn it on just loud enough for the system to hear.

Also, play death metal at a low volume. Or Barney.

Painfully, extra-slowly correct, keep slowing it down until management notices and asks. Tell them you’re just doing what’s needed to keep the AI off your back

And you never know what’s going to come from the interview.

Oh, cool, thanks for the insight.

Interesting that it’s thicker, does it have a bigger battery?

And they’re not into yoga, and have half a brain

Is there a Chines phone that is as small as a Pixel 5 (or smaller?), with decent hardware/ram?

I don’t even need a great processor, just good enough. I don’t play games (other than things like Solitaire or Backgammon), but I multi-task like mad, so ram is more important than anything.

I’ve been looking at one of the Unihertz Jelly phones. I’m a bit concerned about the mediatek, but they’re well priced so it’ s not a bad gamble.

So Rain Man was a vampire?

The US doesn’t have licenses differentiated for automatic or manual, well, none of the 8 states I’ve lived in anyway, so there’s no way for Romania to know.

Though I’d hope Dad would prevent that

Hondas (90s) have been the easiet manual to get moving I’ve ever seen. You practically can’t stall them. (Toyatas too, 90’s Corollas are something else).

And I disagree with the truck - those can make learning harder. One of the hardest I’ve ever driven was a Ford from the 90’s. Heavy as hell clutch that was too small, terrible gear ratios so starting off was a bitch, with big gaps between the gears so you had to run out each gear until you ran out of revs.

But I’ve also driven old trucks with granny gears - an extra-low gear below first for getting moving with a heavy load. Those you just let off the clutch and the truck moves at a walking pace.

Meh, you’re not going to hurt a modern manual with a learner. They’re not even likely to hurt the clutch.

Internals of a transmission are primarily made of 3 materials: brass, aluminum, and *hardened steel".

Aluminum is for shift forks, I can’t even imagine a way to break one.

Brass is for synchros, which can be worn by grinding - which isn’t really easy to make happen anymore, plus but it’s not like you’re gonna sit there and hold it while it’s grinding, you’ll release it quickly. The last car I remember having grinding issues was because they didn’t use a synchro for second gear so you got a short little growl if you didn’t shift “just so”. Last time I drove that car it had 250k on the odometer.

Hardened steel is for the gears themselves. And those things are beefy.

I’ve seen dragsters miss-shift on 1960’s gearboxes that weren’t built for 450hp/500lb torque, and they’ve survived it fine (I’ve also seen them fail the same way). A new driver in today’s cars just can’t do that kind of damage unless it’s intentional - and that would take some time.

You can learn to drive stick in 20 minutes with the right teaching approach.

I learned in about 10 minutes, with my brother teaching me… Not exactly the teacher of choice. And these were cars without tachometers or hydraulic clutches.

The key is learning how the clutch engages, where it’s “catch point” is. Using the “No throttle” method, people pick it up, fast.

Plus with cars today you don’t have to rely on downshifting to slow down - Brakes are just that advanced now (though you still want to brake in short cycles for long downhills to prevent overheating).

A learner could destroy a clutch (I’ve seen it, though it was a long time ago when clutches weren’t as good as today), but it’s not likely these days. Plus I’m not going to let a learner destroy a clutch by using a method that helps them really get a feel for it: have them get the car moving without using the gas.

Hard revving and riding the clutch out would be far harder on a clutch than the slipping needed to get moving without touching the gas.

Yea, I think this is kind of “the way” to teach manual. It really focuses on getting a feel for a clutch and the non-linearity of friction in it.

“clutch portal”… I’m not really sure where that portal goes… Lol