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[–] oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I literally cannot comprehend this. What are you keeping in these things?

If any of you are playing games, and I know you are, there's no way those games aren't slideshows.

Sooo literally how?

If I leave the computer for longer than taking a piss, the browser is closed. Zero tabs.

I get actually uncomfortable with more than 5 or so open.

At least at home. Work computers I can understand because you gotta do whatever you're doing, but even then double digit amounts seems actually crazy.

If you're just opening them thinking "I'm gonna read this article" and just leave it, then you gotta get some better meds.

[–] uncouple9831@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I cannot comprehend the idea of someone whose attention span doesn't last longer than taking a piss and who has a visceral reaction to a computer-rendered filling cabinet analogy telling me I need meds.

I have sets of things in working on over time. Some windows are for misc stuff, some have game info, some have things I'm looking at buying but haven't yet, etc. Why would I want to do the work of finding those pages again rather than letting the computer do what it's designed to do and save to disk.

[–] oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Not sure where the attention span zing came from, but if it's something I'm working on, it's filled in a to do list of some sort.

If I'm considering a purchase, it's either in a cart or on a wish list, or has a bookmark.

Leaving all that open is just making your computer sad.

Like I get the fact that ADHD is a whole thing, I'm just saying I can't personally grasp how using this coping mechanism works.

I understand having questions like this, but from a somewhat more quote unquote "normal" pov, I can't understand it.

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Lol

I literally wrote an Android app to manage my links because I would have so many open. 🤦‍♂️

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, that ADHD tax is about to get real expensive with that RAM gouging…

[–] Arkhive@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I low key predicted this a few months ago when GPUs were all the craze, and balled out on 128 gigs of ram for my primary PC. No regrets now.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

Yeah… I feel the pressure to upgrade my oldish MacBook very soon before the Holidays

[–] fascicle@leminal.space 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I can't stand looking at too many tabs, I get claustrophobic, I usually close the browser which purges all history, cookies, etc and open it again to start fresh

[–] thadah@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

same, it gets overwhelming and I have to close them. Naturally this makes me forget whatever that was in the backlog of tabs forever but it's a price to pay...

[–] fascicle@leminal.space 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah if I feel any interest for later I'll bookmark it and put it in a folder that I'll never click on until years later just to check of the link still works

[–] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I have like 1.5k tabs, I find ones I need because it suggests open tabs in the address bar. If I need to go from my first few tabs to something at the end or vice versa, I click on one of my pinned tabs which stays at the beginning and is always visible (doesn't scroll) and then use the hotkey to go to next / prev tab which wraps and immediately scrolls to the end. It's a lot faster than using the scroll wheel. That's my main tab group, I have like 6 or 7 others with around 500 tabs each

[–] BigTurkeyLove@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

So you are saying its not hard to keep tabs on you...

[–] deHaga@feddit.uk 4 points 6 hours ago

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