Yeah, and 20in wheels. Even 250w makes a big difference to allow less exhaustion (/longer distance).

I made sure to get a bike with gears so I could actually put the effort+speed in, and got a decent price on it (decently below the $1K ground floor) but unfortunately it is now discontinued so finding something similar may be difficult (also, telescoping handlebar stem).

Unfortunately I still don’t ride as much as I should. Mostly there’s not much around, but also add things like weather conditions, mosquito/tick fears, limited by how long my cold water lasts, and various other things that I lack (tire patch kit, durable+breathable clothing, storage because common store options use incompatible mounting).

I’m somewhat similar. I don’t think it’s impossible* for me, but it’s easy to run into issues and lose motivation or simply lack viable ideas for learning projects. Currently stalled due to multiple system-related issues**, and chilling effect of AI (copilot).

I have a YLoD PS3 I’ve fixed a few times before many years ago, though it likely was a capacitor issue that was only fixed accidentally. Don’t feel like spending money on caps/cooling stuff etc, not set up for soldering. I have another PS3 that currently works, not bothering to set up for firmware stuff for that either (slow internet, no easy way to monitor progress).

* I completed a sweeper clone months ago (in the one somewhat-niche language that I actually like) and that actually went great but I haven’t been able to share it. So haven’t done anything since then

** I probably need to use a different distro but not convinced by any, and probably need a better GPU to sidestep legacy driver issue (which could help w/updating my current setup) but everything seems like a side-grade or overpriced or both

Personally, I’d like to see technology go for a more symbiotic route. An extension of humans… but not copies, not AI, not always-online/proprietary etc.

Give me more stable microbiomes, more enzymes and similar synthesis, extend my nervous system with other types of life (extract pollution from trees for fun and profit). They will be part of me, I will treat them better than how many treat their livers. I could even probably play DOOM without training!

Even when it comes to personality disorders (or other brain stuff) I would say there’s still a distinction between need and want.

A lot of cause for isolation is circumstance (and difficulties relating to socializing), so it’s very likely that a lot of terminally-friendless people would disagree with OP’s (supposed) attitude on this.

Beware of poor fitment though. I got some cheap wired ones years ago (from Amazon), didn’t work so well because they had bad contact and no mechanism for adjustment. Kinda also needed a preamp, though if contact were perfect maybe that’d matter less.

I also am not so sure I’d trust them to be waterproof, and anything that is would likely have a heftier pricetag. That, and I’m pretty tired of everything having batteries.

I need you to understand where I live there’s a lot that looks like this:

Minus the butter (not my photo, https://lemmyverse.link/sh.itjust.works/post/44655083).

I mean, you’re not wrong but lack of density (/mixed use) is part of the issue. That and rail infrastructure is used a lot more for cargo than travel. However, it should not be an excuse continue with car reliance.

Nvidia supports 13 year old hardware and newest kernels with 580

At some point when running your 14 year old GPU

Pascal (GTX 10 series) and Volta (expensive workstation stuff) cards from 8-10 years ago are forced to 580 too. EDIT: and to be clear this is an issue with all of the 580xx versions of packages, specifically because Arch put them into the AUR (though this directly isn’t OP’s issue).

Having a 1050Ti… I like the idea of an AMD (Polaris+) card, but I don’t really want to buy a side-grade from the internet. I got really good deals on my other hardware (combo deals from 2019) so $100 more would actually be a decent chunk. Really just seems to me that the GPU market is behind due to crypto->NFTs->AI.

You might be right on FOSS drivers, but they seem to be still rough-around-the-edges whenever I look into it. In multiple aspects (performance, feature/technology support, segfaults). It might be true that I may not notice in some cases (lighter applications), though a 1050 Ti doesn’t have the headroom where the performance could be cut in half and not result in noticeable instability.

I’m still using a 2016 card (1050Ti). If somebody could send a Polaris card my way, it’d save me the headache of having to deal with updating my system to legacy drivers (and from the AUR with my not-very-fast internet? no thanks Samuel). Otherwise, I’m pretty happy with this performance (and yeah, ignoring new/bloated games) and the GPU market seems pretty wrecked by the crypyo->NFT->AI market (on top of companies largely abandoning low-end).

GPU aside I did build a Ryzen system in 2019 because the sale prices were great (and it was a huge leap in performance from my 2011 hardware), so that’s something. Still happy there, too.

As for why I went nVidia in 2016? I had ATI driver issues way back in Windows, so that may have clouded my judgement on AMD options a bit longer than it should have though.

I don’t really care about money, and every part of modern employed (USA) life just seems like a scam. Car dependence+insurance, stagnant wages, housing/rent cost, debt traps, yearly tax burden (the filing process, not payment in general*), health insurance, captive markets, consumerism that doesn’t even seem desirable anymore. Which has only gotten worse over the years.

The only employment I’ve had was an unpaid internship at a car dealership (not really related to what I was interested in at all), which I would say was definitely a net negative when it came to my chances of entering the workforce.

* except that it goes towards harming people. Our post-2016 government is very Twilight-Zone feeling, so that does not inspire confidence when it comes to joining society either

If physical or mental health issues bar you I’d consider that different.

This is a big part for me, though I’d imagine it’s a common reason behind being NEET/Hikikomori. Don’t discount it.

Do you have bills?

No, I don’t buy services. I barely buy things at all.

Do you have autonomy in general?

I can go where my 2 legs and 2 wheels can take me, but where I live there I don’t really know much of anything within a comfortable distance.

I’m also limited by where the trail goes and how much cold water I carry, being in a somewhat rural area (and not knowing anyone) makes that even worse. So I’m not even really going the distance these days. Not really prepared for long travel, either.

Whats the living situation look like?

Boring, living with parents. Nothing most days. On top of typical rotting, I do try to help family when I can. Basic chores (emptying dishwasher, sweeping, unloading firewood from truckbed or carrying wood bucket in winter, pulling garbage bag out+replacing, peeling potatoes for dinner etc), recently I helped carry fence panels. In the past I have kept the house+garden when parents were gone. Today I pan-roasted myself some carrots+summer squash.

I do 3D model stuff and programming (somewhat niche language), though I still lack motivation for practice/projects there. I actually finished something simple a month or so ago, but don’t want to share it on Github (because copilot training) and can’t even share an export with anyone because problems with my system that I haven’t bothered to fix.

Is the term offensive?

Not really. There’s definitely worse said, though that stuff probably gets thrown at everybody rather than NEETs in particular.

Or more directly… you could just point to the Doha accord, AKA that time the Trump administration made a deal with the Taliban that put a date (and other stipulations) on troop withdrawal. Projection, just like with those nicknames.

A partial option is that any controller with analog triggers should work, especially as some driving games use them for acceleration (though I would assume remapping would work too). EDIT: One of the wikis says you may need more steps for analog triggers to work (on windows)

PCSX2 also now has a ‘pressure modifier’ key+setting (default is 50%) that may work in some cases (EDIT: specifically for digital buttons). At least if you have a key for it (like the OG Steam Controller has extra, like the grip buttons… change grip to keyboard key in sc-controller then bind that to the pressure modifier)

In what way?

Tastes good? You want more? Made from ^seaweed? Part of a hearty meal? A key ingredient used by restaurants that many home cooks don’t use?

That some people have unfounded claims about it having negative effects?

Dust. Dust the shelf, dust the loaf with flour.

Well, this is the opposite thing (same word meaning opposite) but if you ask me it’s the same.

EDIT: For some that fit better:

• thaw / unthaw
• terminate / exterminate
• valuable / invaluable
• caregiver / caretaker

From a quick check, their anti-cannabis laws seems to be not really that old as far as culture goes (and might be related to British colonization, also tied at the hip with opium)

Also:

For recreational usage cannabis is not legal. However, cannabis plays a major role in the traditional culture of the island, with the specific Sinhalese or Sanskrit names virapati (“hero-leaved”), capta (“light-hearted”), ananda (“bliss”), trilok kamaya (“desired in three worlds”) and harshini (“the rejoicers”) indicating its various properties, such as inducing euphoria and heightening sexual energy.

That said, the amount here in this specific case (along with related monk-drug headlines) seems excessive* to the point where I wonder if it was a trade/running/money thing.

If it were legal and solely for their own use it would be much better for them to grow and process their own plants (and consume without combustion).

* unless maybe it was actually for way more than 22 monks, I don’t know how long (properly stored) it could last but maybe over many years (and accounting for bulk losses) prohibition could actually make the numbers make sense

I live a stagnant life (shut-in, somewhat rural area) so there may actually be “greener grass” somewhere but I am unlikely to ever even see it, which is part of my point. And funnily enough, in a literal sense importance of green well-kept lawns is a relatively modern problem as well (going back to aristocrats) adding to sprawl (and bad for pollinators/other wildlife).

To hammer my point home… on top of USA’s car-centric sprawl, there is also no freedom-to-roam enshrined in law (like Europe has along with the Schengen Area) and I don’t want to end up homeless without even a car to live in.

There are also a lot of other modern USA problems that are reduced or eliminated in other countries (healthcare, tax filing, worker protections, diet). Which is not to say they don’t have their own problems, but being the richest country in the world certainly is not reflected in our placement when it comes to global statistics of well-being (because yeah, our wealth is concentrated at the top).

I’m not trying to go camping, but just in terms of finding a “simple life” still requires weaving around a lot of modern problems/realities. For instance I do plenty of unpaid chores for family (today I helped carry fence panels), but I am not going to travel many hours (esp. lacking a car) to meet strangers to see if I possibly mesh well in such a community where I would also likely have to pay rent even after putting in what effort I could.

I’ve seen that too, with some emphasis put on viewing the horizon… though where I grew up it’s very unlikely to see anything close to horizon-distance without being at a beach (mostly because trees… better than indoors sure but not much non-treetop distance to look at unless you’re looking across a field/farmland, or maybe a radio/water tower or something).

because the staggering output of AI models will not only make it increasingly unlikely that they will receive compensation for their work, but also that they will receive recognition for it

Don’t forget scraping. GH is already there with public repos, and even if you take a chance and go elsewhere (or don’t release source code) some tools are locked-in (too small to move or too large to move) so it has a chilling effect on growth/contribution.

I am there already. Albeit just starting out and the thing I didn’t share yet is just a simple sweeper clone (in a somewhat niche language+Godot bindings).

Morpheus toon makes room for the death boom.

Also ‘boom’ sounds a lot more fun, like a party with games or refreshments.

Never had much luck with anything social my entire life, and I have too many types of problems. I just exist now.