Maybe you’re weighing the moral pros and cons but let me assure you that-OH MY GOD SHOOT ME IN THE GODDAMN FACE, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR‽

I don’t live in a society.

Women: “What’s he building in there?”

Sea temp.

Zoidberg: “HOW DID THIS HAPPEN‽”
Bender: “So THAT’s where I left my cigar.”

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.

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

Interesting. I guess I’m not that far along (sort of stalled now), and quite possibly may never really need that.

Though for this one:

Some examples I usually have in my computers are ‘newFile’, ‘newTextFile.txt’ (just blank text files)

creating a blank file and renaming to .txt before editing seems good enough for me.

I do use music and video (Flash animations in video too), though yeah they have been moved to slower drives (because data, easier migration). I use XFCE but don’t use desktop icons.

At least projects is an understandable purpose, I don’t use the Templates, Desktop and Public folders at all, and aside from desktop (which I know is a workflow thing that I don’t even use) I would need someone to explain them to me. I’m guessing public would be for a multi-user system, templates maybe for printing stuff (I do not).

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.

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.

I mean consistent sound is fully in-line with what I’m saying, I am fine with robotic sound though the issue I have is that it can be grating for newer. Which I just assumed was something about how samples are used (compared to older speech synthesis). Is the sound actually part of the design to allow such high-speed?

Even if it were, older-style synthesis could likely have that as a parameter or option (or just… a dedicated voice).

I’ve seen some videos on screen-readers with a somewhat fast voice (not quite as fast as your link) that does sound better, similar voices to DECtalk Paul. They don’t seem to always give the voice name but I’ve seen some mention of IBMTTS so it might be related (though current results give AI service stuff that I’m not sure would trace back to those old videos (2016) but either way it might be some Paul derivative). EDIT: It might be ETI Eloquence?

It seems ETI Eloquence is both beloved in the blind community as well as something that has had support issues (proprietary abandonware). And I’ve seen one person on the subject:

It’s frustrating to say the least. Eloquence haters are like, what’s the big deal, but I’m like, show me a voice that is fast and responsive, and doesn’t make me wanna claw my eyes out like eSpeak does. I don’t like concatenative voices because you hear where the splices take place and it’s just weird and off-putting. They are also not as snappy.

The problem I have with Dectalk is that it slurs like a drunk as you speed it up.

I just listened to the samples and it seems a bit hit-or-miss. Some of them still stumble over words, have stilted pacing, or just sound off in some other way (raspy-ness, speed). It seems to vary more voice-to-voice than by the quality setting.

I mean I’m sure some of these voices are fine and probably better than other AI models in terms of performance… though they are a bit uncanny valley and I still think a voice meant to sound robotic (while still having personality) is probably an easier target. I didn’t notice anything like that in the samples, though I did see a couple of YT videos with a GlaDOS voice (sounding fairly accurate) that mention Piper (though I know such a thing likely wouldn’t be front-and-center due to licensing).

Now playing: The Ballad of Hamantha by Jack Stauber.