No app is completely uninstallable. But the one app in Iodé that can't at least be uninstalled via system settings is the Iodé tracking protection.

Iodé is considered one of the more secure custom ROMs and friends of mine and me are quite happy with it (running on a Terracube 2e, a Fairphone 3, and a Fairphone 4).

TOS in the early 90s.

Boy, was I disappointed, when I discovered how old it already was 😅.

Sweat pants and hoodies with high cotton-percentage

Love your PC hardware piece for a bookmark!

My fav is more than 30 years old and has been through many wonderfull books with me. It is made of leather and shows a hedgehog under a starry sky.

If you liked Voyager, you will like Prodigy I would say. It is for the young (at heart).

I love dogs! I don't have one yet, but I most certainly will. I'm pretty sure it will help me cope with stress.

I'll try to keep it short. These are the things I love doing, even though I sometimes don't have the energy for any of it, except lying in my bed. Being autistic can be quite exhausting.

...tinkering with alternative operating systems for notebooks and smarties.

...watching Star Trek - grew up with it and just don't get tired of (re-)watching. My fav is Voyager.

...playing video games - my favs are Loz - Breath of the Wild and Horizon - Zero Dawn

...reading - mainly SF, fantasy, and non-fic. My fav authors are Stephen Baxter, Robin Hobb, and Henry David Thorau.

...strength training - one of my rooms was turned into a training room.

...cycling - I own an almost 20 years old Specialized Rockhopper and prefer day trips.

...travelling and hiking with my GF - mainly in remote areas such as Lapland for example.

... lying in my bed, since it is the one place with the least sensory triggers.

"Burn Book" by Kara Swisher A book about Big Tech and Tech Giants by the one journalist, who followed the development in Silicon Valley from the beginning. So far I like it very much. Swisher is still convinced, that tech (companies) can make this place a better world, if it wasn't for the irresponsibility of its owners. It's comforting to see her love for tech, her frustration with company leaders, and her firm belief, that it might still work out somehow. I'm curious, how it will go on and what she thinks might help getting tech back on track.

Edit: just to follow up on this. I have just been diagnosed with Autism. I am extremely relieved.

Glad to hear. All the best!

Fingers crossed. I know from my own experience that it can make all the difference in the world to finally have a lot (!) of things explained. (Got my diagnosis at the age of 34, ten years ago.)

I got ill and luckily took the time to watch this. As a huge fan of Star Trek and Janeway I love it!

Unfortunately I can't use the app for my public transport ticket because it doesn't support .pkpass files.

Most autistic people struggle with sensoric overload due to a decreased ability to filter stimuli. In my case there are almost no special triggers but the multitude of stimuli, foremost accoustic ones, followed by visual ones, followed by haptic ones. For me it is very important to minimize them by using ANC, a basecap and/or sunglasses as well as large and soft clothes

Apart from that he most important thing is to recognize when I'm starting to melt down and then to grant myself a timeout as soon as possible. Therefore I had to learn what helps me to relax the most. Being in a room with only a little light and sound, read a book, play a game, watch my favourite TV series ... If in the office or the public I sometimes retreat to the toilet, which is embarassing to admit but kind of helps.

Thx for pointing out and enjoy.

Yeah, sure looks like a fork of FairMail and that GUI was always irritating me. I'll stick with K9.

Moin,

ich hatte zur Zeit meiner Diagnose, also vor 10! Jahren, das Glück, dass die Warteliste der Autismusambulanz der Charité geöffnet war. Allerdings ist diese im Moment auch geschlossen.

Es gibt darüber hinaus auch Ärzte, die eine Diagnose anbieten. Allerdings, so mein Kenntnisstand, muss man das dann selbst bezahlen.

I got nothing to add to the comments already written but wanted to say "thanks for sharing", 'cause I'm in this mood now for weeks. It's like I'm waiting for something to happen without knowing what this something is. Luckily I'm going on holidays a few weeks from now. So: Thank you for sharing.

Though they are double the price you mentioned as a limit, I want to recommend the ones I'm using for other people in need of really good NC headphones coming to this thread.

I got myself refurbished Bose Quiet Comfort 45 and in my opinion they are perfect. I use them to blend out noise in public transport, museums, shopping malls, the office and so on. I can wear them for hours without my ears hurting or the battery running out. They really improved my quality of life.

Nah, I'm using it for work, to write proposals and documentation - that's all. And I always include a "written with AI" disclaimer.

• "The Neverending Story" by Michael Ende as a kid
• "The Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien as a teen
• "The Realm of the Elderlings" by Robin Hobb
• "The Ea Cycle" by David Zindell
• "The Manifold Trilogy" by Stephen Baxter

These books' worlds absorbed me so completely in the most positive way!

Though I must admit I'm a fan of rereading anyway. Don't know how many unknown books I skipped for a reread of know ones. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Exactly what I did yesterday and it felt so good.

Actually it was my (former) partner, not me, who suggested it.

Thank you for sharing this! Will have a look into Krishnamurti's work and might even reread "Brave New World".

I'm both, in my job I'm mainly no. 2, while in my private life I'm a pain in the ass with mainly no. 1.

Well, it's earbuds again: https://shop.fairphone.com/de/fairbuds How disappointing.

I was hoping for the tablet too (while eyeing the Shiftbook).

Also opting in for Voyager. I swear, I can feel my pulse drop as soon as the Intro starts.

Depends on the OS you're using. Most custom ROMs based on LineageOS have this kind of setting: Settings > Privacy > Trust > SMS message limit.

First, I love characters that are regularly puzzled by human beings / being human:
Spock
Data
Odo
The Doctor
Seven of Nine
Saru

Second, I love strong female characters:
Katherine Pulaski
Kira Nerys
Kathryn Janeway!!!
SNW Uhura
SNW Chapel

Third, I love queer characters:
Guinan
Garak
Jadzia Dax
Adira and Gray

I might have forgotten an awfull lot of equally amiable characters, which doesn't mean that I don't love them.

"Tao: The Watercourse Way" by Alan Watts

"Walden" by Henry David Thoreau

"A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf

My longtime favs (apart from LOTR by Tolkien) are:

1. The Realm of the Elderlings series bei Robin Hobb
2. Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams
3. Ea Cycle by David Zindell

Currently pausing BG3 to continue Hogwarts Legacy and enjoy some The Last of Us Part I sessions inbetween.

Are LEDs back, e.g. for notifications? FP3 has them, FP4 doesn't.

Replicator. First things first.

I found an interesting position there. But there seems to be no discription of the job itself, just of the company. That's odd.

I don't think I can "speak" neurotypical. I'm imitating NT behaviour/language. And no matter how good I act "as if", it will always be an imitation. It's like repeating words of a language I don't understand. I can learn what to say under which circumstances, but it will never be the same like actually speaking that language.

My NT girlfriend has two (other) autistic friends. Apart from that there are none or at least none, who would describe themselves as ND or "on the spectrum".

A long time I experienced myself as "normal". It didn't occur to me, that "all the others are weird" can't be right. While reading about ADHD a friend of mine also read about Autism and Asperger's Syndrome. He often said (both teasingly and matter-of-factly) "You most certainly are autistic". Eventually I had enough of it and looked it up. The Wikipidia article convinced me blazingly fast ("wrong planet syndrome") and I got diagnosed within half a year by the age of 34 (i.e. 8 years ago by the time of writing).

I almost always switch to Roboto as soon as I open a new ebook.