I've been on slow release methylphenidate for about a year and it's mostly been a great help with executive disfunction, focus and motivation.

But there's something strange I've noticed: I have a feeling that it's making me crave alcohol (or drugs in general but the only drug I'd take is alcohol).

Before starting meds the number of times I'd drink in a year had already gradually decreased to maybe four or five times and when I started meds I pretty much stopped completely, I've only had any alcohol twice since then.

But I miss it a lot more than I used to and on some days I get an insanely strong craving.

I've read people say that adhs meds helped them with addictive behaviour but has anyone experienced the opposite?

Does anyone else experience variation in what the effect of their meds feels like?

I've gradually increased my dose to 2 x 30 mg of slow release methylphenidat and have had a couple of days where I felt fantastic. Very focused but also calm and balanced. I had this very strong feeling of "really being myself" as in being able to use my full potential as a person.

Then I have some days where I barely notice anything and today I've mostly just felt jittery and a bit anxious. I can feel the stimulating effect on my body (higher heart rate) but without the mentally calming effect.

I'm having issues with the clock, where often it displays the time one hour ahead and then at some point switches back to the correct time.

Has anyone else encountered this and knows how to fix it?

I'm doing a course on coding with Python and we were told to install Anaconda and Jupyter Notebook.

I followed this installation guide and am currently at the part "Post Installation Guide", I have installed Jupyter notebook. https://thelinuxcode.com/install-anaconda-in-linux-mint-20/

As a further step it says: Launch Anaconda Navigator If you prefer graphical application interfaces, Navigator brings an intuitive package manager, notebook launcher, and IDE options like Spyder3.

I've been going through my applications but I can find neither Anaconda Navigator nor Jupyter there and I have no idea what I'm supposed to do next.

I'm doing an intro course to coding with Python and we're supposed to install Python and Jupyter, the recommendation is to install Anaconda.

I saw in the software manager that I already have Python3 installed and that it cannot be removed. Can I still install Anaconda additionally or will this fuck things up somehow? Or should I just install Jupyter Notebook?

I'm sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm a bit lost :P

A couple of days ago I started getting an error message every time I boot my laptop. It says:

EFI stub: WARNING: Failed to measure data for event 1: 0x800000000000000b

Any idea what caused this / what the issue is / how I can resolve it?

Thank you!