Addicted!!!!!!!!!
 

Yes guys, I came out of smoking, and out of two breakups....

but one addiction i can never beat is the constant refresh on maemo.org....

fking hell.... asking, crying, laughing, sneering, speculating.... t.m.o has occupied my living existence for four months (yes, short)

at work, i cant even concentrate on something more than an hour without taking a dip in t.m.o. I handle a 150mn chunk of a $2bn project, but holyF, I cant get over the t.m.o. obsession. I am not even a techie for god's sake.

come back in night, and the whole evening goes in t.m.o, and hacking my phone... day after day... for four months thats what I did - no gym, no football, no drinks at the bar, no chasing girls, none!

wake up in the morning, and even before i get up from bed, open t.m.o for the latest updates....

I know there are many here like me, and tell u what, I am loving every bit of it.... but seriously guys it is tough to balance our lives with our affair with N900/Maemo.org... love you brothers.

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OMG :P
and i was thinking that n900 has ruined my routine only :P

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tldr;


Cool story bra

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and u know, i am sitting here on a friday morning, refreshing this thread a thousand times..

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Look for a GF ;)

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Maybe the addiction is due to the recent break ups and withdrawal from smoking.

You should probably seek help if a forum affects your life this much.

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is this some kind of MANIA ??????? may be "TMOMANIA"

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lol. I've not had a single day without visiting TMO from the day I joined here.

I totally understand. TMO FTW.

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Buy more N900's.

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It's not talk.maemo.org, it's what you do with it.

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Only 45 posts in 4 months? Less refreshing, more posting.

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He joined April so he is only 1 month here as a member.

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Well, even without using my n900 anymore, t.m.o stayed...

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TMO is awesome, sure it takes over our lives, but it's great fun :)

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Still, less refreshing. lolol.

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For me, it is more constantly running

root
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

that is my addiction, especially these days when updated programs are so common. But I do have to keep a watch here for new programs. And I have to watch the My-Maemo site which makes it easier to find new programs. Though I have found that following my_maemo in Twitter gets that info faster.

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Has the internet decayed so much we just throw two memes together for a reply?

Anyway wouldn't the correct version be

Or did you mean

Anyway, OP. You should give a chunk of that budget to me and I promise I will continue to post ;) Glad you like it here

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The addiction is not the N900 or talk.maemo.org, the addiction come from all that damn tech gadget that we have around ... most of us are tech addicted, other than forum there are blog, articles, news, etc, i spend at least two hrs a day in reading tech stuff ...

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haha same happened to me few months ago. xD

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I just want to make it clear that my preoccupation with my N900 has nothing to do with my ignoring of work, family and friends. I am not addicted to this thing. I can stop whenever I want to...

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I knew a guy who was addicted to sniffing brake fluid, he said the same thing.

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I really understand you. I bought my N900 in May 2010 and addicted to this site. Sometimes I want to sell my N900 so that I can concentrate on my work!

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amazing to see many people similar... atleast not on a boat alone...


Btw, was a forum lurker before. joined one month ago when i faced problems with nitdroid installation.

As I see, this will only get more obsessive with next week's launch of N9 :mad:

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Remember, TMO reponsibly

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*raises hand*
Hello my name on this forum used to be giladmttw and I'm and addict.
I bought my N800 three years ago and visited this forum every day since then. When I got the N800 I decided to try and not use any other computer but the device for all my activities. At first it was hard, some websites were not supported well, I couldn't send job applications, couldn't check flights, edit documents in hebrew, important stuff. Well a week turned into a month which turned into two years of tweaking my device to perfection, and by the end of the second year I had the perfect device.
Which stopped booting six month ago.
I was in shock. I decided to go for the N900 and got mine about a month ago. Or is it two ? Don't know, lost track of time, check my join date.
Sometimes I asked myself what's so important here. Why not just put the device in your pocket and do something else, something real.
Well after losing my tablet I know that this is something real, it is a real part of my life. I use it all the time to download movies for family, check up on stuff for family and communicating, all important stuff, it may look like a toy but it's not.
Yesterday I compiled a program in easy chroot and left it running over night to check for stability. In the mornning I found the desktop crashed. I was very sad to see that. My own sweat and blood program crashing my beloved hildon-desktop ? I really wanted it to work so I could give something back to the community. Thank you all the devs and users, love this place.

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I have locked myself in my bedroom constantly refreshing nokia's website page regarding the status of my n900's repair.I live in hope everytime I press F5 the status changes from "in repair" to "repaired"


I live in hope! please pray for my N900. I thinks it's time for my half hourly F5 refresh of Nokia repair website wish me luck!

Absence makes the heart grow fonder!!!

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I have a love-hate relationship with TMO: on one hand the community driven development is absolutely addicting, on the other, watching these brilliant minds collaborate (CSSU, NITDroid, h-e-n, themes, mods etc etc) makes me feel so f**king stoopid.

Ok, so it's more of a love-love relationship.

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back in the days, there was a discussion at t.m.o about marketing slogans for the n900. some of them were pretty clever. too clever for their own good even.

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You know what scares me, is that the N9 is going to be a reality pretty soon here, and like when I had my N810, I wasn't that bent on getting a N900, but then I realized all the current up to date stuff that goes on in this forum, I'd be on the outside looking in. I couldn't have that, so I sacrificed and put away money every week so I could get the N900 upon release.

My purchase was forum driven, because I haven't seen a better collected group of intelligent (for the most part :-P ), enthusiastic, contributers to a device than this place.

I got an android for work, and have you seen the clusterf*ck that is the android community. This place is amazing I've gotten better answers in the off-topic and competitors threads on here than I have on dedicated Android forums.

So guess what, I'm totally getting the N9 and as I explained to my gf last night when she asked why, because I check this forum everyday and without the newest device I'll feel left out. She didn't get it and rolled her eyes at me and called me a dork, but yeah I'm totally a dork for few things in my life, pro wrestling, comic books, and mameo/meego devices are on my very very short list :-)

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I love n900 too , I'm searching for hacks/mods every day but I still preffer to get outside with friends , maybe clubbing , get drunk , looking for girls , etc. :D .