Hal fixing a light bulb (from Malcolm in the Middle S03E06 - Health Scare)

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avar · 2022-11 · Recommendation

This short scene from Malcolm in the Middle is the best explanation I've found of ADHD as an adult: [VIDEO] He tries to turn on the light, the bulb is dead, unscrews it, then as he's getting the bulb the shelf in the cabinet it's in is loose. He gets a screwdriver to fix the cabinet, but the rails on the drawer the screwdriver's in are squeaky. He gets some WD-40 to fix that, but the can of WD-40 is empty. He then gets in the car, which refuses to start. Then his wife gets home, and he's underneath the car covered in motor oil. "Hal, did you replace that light bulb in the kitchen?" "WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE I'M DOING?!".

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whynotmaybe · 2026-07 · Joke / meme

I sometimes feel like Hal changing a lightbulb[1] when I'm trying to install an app on Linux, either I don't have the correct distro, I need to enter km long command line to add some repository to apt, I need to download 346 packages from I don't know where to the build the app, and finally find out that it's not what I wanted. Yes, I know that's how Linux works and I know all the advantages of that, but when you see now that many install are just 'curl mywebsite.com/install.sh | bash', you start to wonder which is a "good" solution. 1. [VIDEO]

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shagie · 2026-06 · Reference

(Non short video format - [VIDEO] ... When in the office I had a QR code of that so people could scan it and understand what I was working on)

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