Or -1

Should have stopped at 3.

Also, it helps to take a break from technology if this worries you. Read a book. Do some woodworking.

Llms arent going to plant a garden, build houses, fix a leaky faucet, install a new outlet, mount and balance tires, paint a house, dig a hole. It never will. It may be able to give you an inaccurate guide that allows less intelligent to electrocute themselves or poison themselves though.

And nethack just updated!!

Thats something to actually be excited about, not chatbots proliferating everything and destroying finite resources.

Exactly. If it only “seems smart on topics I don’t know shit about” thats a massive red flag.

I’ll keep thinking for myself while the masses get dumber.

Nah. I was at first then realized its a HUGEEE marketing hype train with billions behind it and that is why it proliferated. If it didnt have that no one would give a fuck. It doesn’t do anything we havent had tools to do for 20 years. It made some things a little easier for dumb people.

Read up some Ed Ziteron to clear your head. They (the altmans of the world) want you to think this way and give up so you stop learning, atrophy your brain, and pay a knowledge subscription to use their inaccurate summarizing bot. Thats the end goal, a grift, as usual, and why right wing fascists love it so much.

Really nothing has changed.

Yeah I use mullvads

I did, I use mullvads DNS. Other ones it still won’t work.

Its odd becuase ive not seen anything else they block. They really dont seem to care about much. Oh well, VPN it is.

I’m in love.

Any way to get this offline running ?

Ahh

Oh yes. I love McMaster.

Thats the fault of corporations and scummy dealers, not craigslist.

Oh shoot. Regulations ?

Oh for sure shop local if you can. I have an o Reilly’s but they ship everything in anyways and the quality is usually worse than rock auto.

Idk mixing and recording music is tedious and boring sometimes and I still do it. I paint furniture. I repair cars. The truth of the matter is all of those things involve buying something to do the job. Or fixing your house. Thats just how the world is. You aren’t gonna find shingles and 2x4s and nails out in the woods to gather.

I’m definitely one of those, except my "collectibles " all serve a function. I don’t get things that just sit. If it is sittiitng, I sell it (like my old Atari I never used anymore).

I could probably be better about buying things, but the things I buy enable me to do more. I’m a project person. And, I usually buy used if I ever can.

Definitely better than folks buying endless plastic un repairable junk on amazon that they dont need at all.

Yeah consumerism can be bad. But not everyone is into weaving baskets from grass.

I do agree a little though, someone with 500 funko pops isn’t doing the environment (or the slaves in China that made them) any favors. But if they enjoy it, do it. 1 billionaires jet flight destroys more than 1 of us ever could in an entire lifetime if we bought 20 funkos a day. Not to mention the running cost of their 10 homes and yachts.

Basically my motto. There’s nothing I’m “not allowed” to do (legally). I like old stuff, always have. Others may see it as junk. I enjoy fixing things and my house is a mess with projects. Sometimes I don’t finish them. But when i do its great. My yard isnt perfectly manicured becuase I actually hate that. I let dandelions grow until they’re dead, then I mow. I have books all over the place in the house because I read 10 things at once. I have tons of game systems and sit on the floor to play them because I just find that the fun and relaxing way.

People think I’m weird, and I’m glad !

Is it bad I use this for steam login? I thought that was secure …

Yep agree.

And then people are like " well children were born during wars!!" Yeah… Thats awful and not something we should want to do.