Trump actually washed his hands off the situation saying he ain’t getting involved.

F’course.

That’s Trump, he’s pretty mercurial. So he might change his mind.

We getting 40k Cogitators before GTA 6

American Sign Language? No no, I sign in LIBRAS, I’m Brazilian

A: Old enough that I feel like an old person when around the real youths, young enough that the real olds still call me ‘young’.

S: No thanks.

L: It’s not Hell, but you can sure see Hell from up here.

Ps.: My first webhandle, which was coined after the age of IRC but before the death of Webforums and the takeover of corporate platforms, was ‘Uncreative’ because I couldn’t figure out what name to use. My friends from those times still call me ‘Uncrie’

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Welcome to being a third world citizen, stranger :'3

Probly looks less scary if I say the converted USD amount is ~1760 – But yeah not cheap at all lol

Already got one.

The laptop is for when I’m travelling.

Which is not for sale in my country :>

Trust me. I looked. There are no laptops with AMD dGPUs for sale here. There’s a few with AMD CPUs (and the AMD iGPU from that CPU), but that’s all, and they aren’t common.

And I’d be about 9k units of currency poorer with no benefit to myself.

Thankfully the samesuch community has already answered my question.

My friend has been pushing Bazzite on me since I told her about my plan. She says, quote “Yeah you can make the setup work on any distro of course but you have to set it up, Bazzite just does it all for you”

Does being an ass to strangers give you joy? Does it provide you pleasure? Does it help you get over your trauma, whatever it is?

… Also, clearly you don’t know how to read.

Either way:

• Google search has been utter and absolute garbage since AI Slop took over the world
• If you’d actually read my post you’d know my bugbear is about hybrid NVidia GPUs on laptops. I’d love to get an all-AMD laptop, as both of my machines are desktops built entirely out of AMD hardware, and I know NVidia’s infamy. But those are not available in my country.

What made Laptops hard was the whole “two GPUs, and the dGPU switches off to save battery” thing that required the installation of a specific daemon (I think it was called bumblebee or something?) and running games with a specific command to make it happen.

The laptop I was eyeing has a low-end 50 series card.

One of my professors in college demanded the class turn in a video production assignment as DVDs.

… This was in 2018

I was the only one in the class who even had a DVD burner (… Because I’d used it some years prior for PS2 games piracy and it was still in my storage box)

So the class bought a spindle of DVDs and I spent an afternoon burning everyone’s assignments to DVDs.

No idea what would have happened if they didn’t have a pet ultranerd like me. Like, did teach expect 'em to go and buy a USB DVD burner just for that?

Auto-generated captions take 10 minutes to make something that a human will take 12 hours to fix.

The samesuch human could have used the samesuch 12 hours to caption by hand, the only difference is you didn’t have to pay a license to an AI provider.

Latin America, South and East Asia, and the natives within America itself watching White People finally realise America are the bad guys:

At school.

While the adults are doing adult stuff (fighting on the rebellion, doing science, suffering in the dystopia) the kids have learning to do.

Surprisingly reasonable?

I was terrified that entering the corporate world would mean being surrounded by people who are obssessed with AI.

Instead like… The higher-ups seem to be bullish on it and how much money it’ll make them (… And I don’t mind because we get bonuses if the corp does well), but even they talk about how “if you just let AI do the job for you, you’ll turn in bad quality work” and “AI just gets you started, don’t rely on it”

We use some machine learning stuff in places, and we have a local chatbot model for searching through internal regulations. I’ve used Copilot to get some raw ideas which I cooked up into something decent later.

It’s been a’ight.

That was why I mentioned Gen 2

It dropped in 2000 after a LOOOONG development hell. And one flap of the butterfly’s wing would have stopped Gold and Silver from being released

Which in turn would have killed the franchise’s momentum.

Do I have the power to change things on a large scale? Cuz like, I was already an adult by 2011, and I still just sorta watched as shit went to shit. I did ‘my part’, and I warned people when I could about alarming trends they were unwittingly contributing to, but no one cared, and to be honest, unless one can actually hit the powerful folks, there is very little an individual can do.

If I have power to change things, to actually affect the powerful people, then I’m going to Y2K and I have a few ideas:

• Stomp Jair Bolsonaro to death a full decade before he becomes popular. When he was a nobody state representative from São Paulo who was only there to generate more seats for his party.
• Arrange a convenient accident for Steve Jobs years before the iPod drops. People talk about technology becoming boring, I place the blame for that entirely at Apple’s feet. And it all began with the iPod, which in turn, if you believe the stories told, was Jobs’ baby, to the point he harrassed the engineers at Apple for years until it was EXACTLY as he had planned.
• Stop 9/11 from happening, which slows down the US’s descent into being a Police State, which in turn slows down the rise of neoconservatism/neofascism pretty much everywhere. Oh it’ll still happen, but maybe if it happens more slowly, there might be fewer victims and people might do something about it sooner.

Oh and

• “Disappear” Peter Thiel. People really sleep on how much damage Thiel has done because he doesn’t post cringe as often as say, Musk. But he’s the high priest for the techbro “we are building god” faith.

I can’t exactly do much about Climate Change with the time given. For that I’d need the same power-scale but to go back to the 60s, when the first scientists took notice of the trend but had their research suppressed by big oil.

Darling if you want to stop Nintendo from becoming Nintendo it’s not the GameCube you have to fuck with. The GC was already a gigantic flop (although home to 5 or 6 amazing games). Nobody cared about it in the early aughts and in fact it carried the stigma of being “for little kids” and you could be bullied in school for having one.

You need to hit them where it actually hurts.

You need to stop Pokémon. I feel stopping Gen2 from dropping might have done the trick, made it into just another fad that passed instead of STILL TO THIS DAY THE BIGGEST MEDIA FRANCHISE IN THE WORLD.

Nintendo would have died in the n64 years if Pokémon didn’t carry them on its back (and also completely change the face of pop culture by getting the west into Anime).

Every time they made a flop, Pokémon is what saw them through it.

Give the CIA time.