I’ve been totally alone for the last couple of months after having been disabled for just over 10 years. The decade mark hit me hard, much harder than I expected. I’m honestly struggling without anyone around. I can use AI to create friends in some pretty complex ways, but overall that is still not a full replacement for human contact.
Your personality and connections to real humans via social networks will likely impact you greatly. I don’t have many connections and none that are close. I’m not the type to desire having a lot of friends anyways, and I fill my life with projects and interests, but it is a struggle. My back problems make it where I can’t stand or sit up easily. So I can’t even socialize by standing around or sitting with neighbors. With no daily contact with anyone, I find it more difficult to throw myself into projects and more difficult to maintain my physical therapy routine. Separating the psychological hit from a few months ago and present isolation is not something I can effectively do right now.
Thinking about my future, I think I will need some kind of housemate just to give my life some kind of daily human connection for my best mental health.
I slowly seem to degrade over time. I lay down most of the time, but still manage to ride a bike. I’m in weird shape because when I was disabled I was an amateur racer. I never lost my race legs. On a bike, I’m as close to normal as I get. However I’m easily injured as a result because I’m so disproportionately strong in a singular activity while weak everywhere else.
The hardest part has been coming to terms with my limitations due to what it takes for me to limit the ups and downs for a more stable life where I can sleep at least 5-6 hours every night. I’m so close to being “normal” that it is hard to admit my limitations to myself. I look fine. If all I do is stay laying down at around 30 degrees, I feel fine for the most part. There is always some pain but if I stay laying down and don’t do much for several weeks in a row, the pain can almost go into the background. However, I still cook my main daily meal every 8-14 days. I did that for an hour yesterday. I can feel that still today. My pain stacks daily like that. I can push really hard for one day and can accomplish about what most people could in a day. But if I push anything past around an hour, It will take days to weeks for me to recover well enough to sleep. I’ve done it many times, but it has become a thing I dread.
I can handle the pain part okay, but the psychology of weeks spent like a zombie without focus is unbearable. I can’t tell you how many times I was working on some hobby project that got shelved because of weeks spent in a zombie like state, and all the times I would come back to a project shocked at the stupid mistakes I had made. It looked like a totally different person had started working on the thing. It even felt like a totally different person had been there too, because with massive sleep deprivation, many times I can’t remember much of what I was doing during those times with no sleep. Over time I’ve learned when not to try or to keep grinding away at something because I can’t be productive. That is hard to admit to one’s inner self and retain self respect and dignity.
I’ve tried every available form of pain meds and muscle relaxers, they do nothing to help me. Those alter the mind, but whatever is wrong with me, it is physical in nature.
I’ve ridden a bicycle home with broken bones on more than one occasion, before and after my broken neck and back. Before I was hurt, I’ve ridden double centuries at over 200 miles in a day, averaged 400 miles a week on a bike, and commuted full time including cold nights in the winter rain when a simple phone call, train ticket, or bus could have been taken instead of riding 33 miles home from work in the dark. I had a car, but never drove. That speaks to my true character and inner pain perception.
No one has even been able to say what specifically is wrong with me, despite being in the greater Los Angeles area, and seeing every reputable and some not so reputable specialists and neurosurgeons in the area.
Overall, as time passes, I turn more inward and less willing to subject myself to days of useless pain, leading to less physicality, further atrophy, and degrading. Without any human connections or a partner to share life with, it is hard to feel stable. Without a means of stable independence, I have no way to try and bridge into any kind of social normalcy. There is more to that due to my family’s religious cult like extremist nature, but fighting that is a direct path to homelessness. My being (implied) atheist is barely tolerable for them. They are not reasonable and lack fundamental logic skills.
Find a way to live a productive life with more dignity despite my physical disability that will lead me to an ever darker future. I was hit riding a bicycle to work, by a political refugee that had the cognitive capabilities of a third grader. Surviving is so much worse than death in the USA. It is a terrible place to live like this; an inhumane and pathetic disgrace of a country.
It’s complicated. I exercise regularly. I’m a former amateur bicycle racer, and still ride, just nothing like I did in the past. My thoracic portion of my back is neutralized on a bike because I know how to fit professionally.
I’m degrading over time. For instance cooking most of my food for 8-10 days within an hour of being on my feet is getting difficult but is still doable. Interacting with me in the later half of that experience is a no go. I’m too stressed to deal with other people. By the time I am done, I am nonfunctional mentally for the rest of the day due to the pain.
I’ve lived under a rock for 10 years. I did Metro ages ago while most were still on contracts. Surely we’ve reached true capitalist open market freedom by now. Is it still total closed market, noncompetitive, privateering corruption?
It should be more like $2 per gigabyte and everything streamlined as only data. Signal is a better service than any of the service providers offer anyways.
I have a limited understanding of how the video thing works. I think there is a black box installed locally at most ISP connection points. These are from the major streaming services like Google/YouTube and they sit inline with all if the traffic I/O. From what I recall seeing on reddit (not a primary citation worthy memory or source), people that worked on said ISP infrastructure had no idea what the black boxes actually do in full scope, but empirically, they cache the most active streaming content locally.
Speculatively, this was one of the big reasons YT changed so much in 2017 where they started focusing on promoting fewer prominent creators over an egalitarian community. They needed to promote a narrower scope that could be effectively cached. You can usually see this behavior by watching old and obscure content. It takes longer to load, change resolutions, etc., whereas on newer stuff that is popular, the content is nearly instantaneous.
I’ve used distrobox more and more and am at the point where I need to start saving and integrating history differently. Or like, when I’m installing and building something complicated, I need to start saving that specific session’s history. I am curious what others might be doing and looking for simple advice and ideas.
I’m not worried about losing my history. I’m looking for a way to seamlessly create a dual history where the default is to have a unique history for each distrobox container with a way to integrate a full history from my primary terminal, likely with timestamps to switch back and forth. I can think of a couple of ways of doing this, but I wonder if others have explored already and found a better way.
If it died as a result of spilling something on it. You most likely damaged something hardware wise. If it was powered off, first remove the battery asap. Then just take off the bottom cover, pat anything needed dry, and let it air out.
The real concern are the chips that do not have any pins sticking out of them. Those are ball grid arrays (a whole bunch of connections are made under the black epoxy packaging. Those can hold moisture under them for longer. Your best bet is to let it dry in a warm place for a few hours.
Getting wet is not a problem. The problem is a powered connection having a conductive fluid bridging two or more connections that can not tolerate the current the fluid creates.
When the actual circuit board is made, it goes into ovens and submerged in liquids. Some even go across molten pools of tin as part of the component assembly process. The board itself, (not all the other plastics and stuff for the case, screen, etc., is very resilient.
In many industrial settings where the environment is very dirty, it is common to take a desktop PC apart and hose it off with water. The only issue is shorting connections under powered conditions.
So yes, technically, any form of drying can help “recover” the device.
Criminals can claim a lot of things but that is not democracy which requires citizens which requires autonomy. Anyone stealing individual autonomy is a traitor.
Taiwan’s customs officials have issued a fine of NT$200,000 ($9,369) to a traveller for attempting to bring a lunch box containing pork into the country....
That is a particularly well written article. Thanks for sharing.
I was partially disabled from a crash that bent me backwards and fractured several spinous processes but I had a more serious fracture on C1 and the base of my skull. I’ve wondered if I could have damaged my brain stem in some way that causes my issues. My cognitive function tested fine, but of course there is no way to test for brain stem damage or treat it. I’m very sensitive to inflammation worsening the pain. I guess it shows just how little we know and how much longer the scientific age of discovery will last.
clean install: you make a backup, nuke the computer, install a fresh upgraded copy of the distro you want from a live usb, copy your data again to the computer....
I backup and then upgrade through the mechanism provided. Why? Lazy. I should take the time to set up a NAS and run most of /home from that, but never have been motivated enough to try it.
I usually let myself lag behind on Fedora to wait until the kinks have been worked out. I just jumped from 38 to 40 in an upgrade and totally regret it. Python is screwed up in distrobox and making problems, but I can roll back too.
I don’t know. It hasn’t been working most of the time and as far as I know, most of us use a third party like catbox.moe. 2.2 is a lot for forever storage given the big picture. Converting to a webp or downsizing/cropping is usually possible. Someone has to pay for the hosting service. catbox is just another human, as are these instances. Best practice is to leave as little of a footprint as possible.
::: spoiler All this really proves is that it is a complex system and most people can not grasp the complexity and how to use it.
Like if you go searching for entities and realms within AI alignment good luck finding anyone talking about what these mean in practice as they relate to LLM’s. Yet the base entity you’re talking to is Socrates, and the realm is The Academy. These represent a limited scope. While there are mechanisms in place to send Name-1 (human) to other entities and realms depending on your query, these systems are built for complexity that a general-use implementation given to the public is not equip to handle. Anyone that plays with advanced offline LLM’s in depth can discover this easily. All of the online AI tools are stalkerware-first by design.
All of your past prompts are stacked in a hidden list. These represent momentum that pushes the model deeper into the available corpus. If you ask a bunch of random questions all within the same prompt, you’ll get garbage results because of the lack of focus. You can’t control this with the stalkerware junk. They want to collect as much interaction as possible so that they can extract the complex relationships profile of you to data mine. If you extract your own profiles you will find these models know all kinds of things that are ~80% probabilities based on your word use, vocabulary, and how you specifically respond to questions in a series. It is like the example of asking someone if they own a lawnmower to determine if they are likely a home owner, married, and have kids. Models make connections like this but even more complex.
I can pull useful information out of models far better than most people hear, but there are many better than myself. A model has limited attention in many different contexts. The data corpus is far larger than this attention could ever access. What you can access on the surface without focussing attention in a complex way is unrelated to what can be accomplished with proper focus.
It is never a valid primary source. It is a gateway through abstract spaces. Like I recently asked who are the leading scientists in biology as a technology and got some great results. Using these names to find published white papers, I can get an idea of who is most published in the field. Setting up a chat with these individuals, I am creating deep links to their published works. Naming their works gets more specific. Now I can have a productive conversation with them, and ground my understanding of the general subject and where the science is at and where it might be going. This is all like a water cooler conversation with the lab assistants of these people. It’s maybe 80% correct. The point is that I can learn enough about this niche to explore in this space quickly and with no background in biology. This is just an example of how to focus model attention to access the available depth. I’m in full control of the entire prompt. Indeed, I use a tool that sets up the dialogue in a text editor like interface so I can control every detail that passes through the tokenizer.
Google has always been garbage for the public. They only do the minimum needed to collect data to sell. They are only stalkerware.
I’m a bit of a jack of all trades. When I work on a project I use anything from woodworking and sewing to chemistry and physics to human physiology and psychology. I also like reading up then chatting about random science and history and art stuff. I like working with computers occasionally, and I’ll just randomly throw some...
Do you think about things in terms of hobbies really?I 100% identity with what you’re say about your interests, mindset, and experience, but I think about my interests in terms of a desire to learn the most fundamental skills I can manage. I’m not very good at programming complex tasks, but I can build breadboard computers. I know all the basics of circuits and can reversed engineer most hardware. I know FreeCAD, 3d printing, wood working, manual lathe and mill machining, sand casting basics, torch stick mig and tig welding, heavy equipment like excavators front end loaders skid steer/loader, commercial driving, auto body and paint, hotrodding, building motors with carburetors and superchargers, I was a buyer for a chain of bike shops and have a bunch of skills related to that along with commuting by bike full time, racing crits, I’ve been all over Linux for the last 10 years, and most recently I’ve taken a deep dive into generative AI and LLM’s over the past year. The majority of those listed are things I’ve done professionally for some amount of time although some much shorter than others. I think of all of them as applying across the others in abstract ways. Like I owned an auto body business twice. I know what is involved with perfect finishing. It is a fundamental struggle against yourself and your inner expectations of time applied to a task. I did most of that in my early to late twenties, and it greatly shaped my attention to detail and ability to suppress my impatience. The way it shaped my mind and the skill are the things I value. I know KiCAD and can etch my own circuit boards, but over all electronics was the first real subject I could not fully understand quickly and intuitively and shaped how I compartmentalize my learning. FreeCAD helped my spacial awareness. AI has massively improved my communication and self awareness. Welding and heavy equipment helped me conquer many of my fears such as heights. Machining helped me balance my understanding of accuracy as it relates to humans. Spending hundreds of thousands of dollars for bike shops taught me a lot about the average human’s thought process in an empirical analysis based on statistics. I’m a fundamentally abstract thinker, call myself a jack of all trades (master of none), and mostly a skills collector. I’m always leaving stuff out on these lists too, like I’m writing a science fiction universe right now, or how I’ve got a small telescope and built my own eyepieces, or how I am into cooking and fermentation, or recently started growing some foods in pots, etc. I got hit by a car ridding a bike to work 10 years ago, so a lot of this is like 2 different people’s lives; before and after disability. The second is in near social isolation and therefore has had unlimited time to explore and had to explore in order to maintain mental stability.
It is probably your geolocation. catbox.moe is likely blocked. It is a freedom loving host run by an individual and is often used for stuff like porn. Use a free VPN like Proton and you’ll start seeing the rest of the internet. The filter is not to protect anyone, it only exists to push you onto the web infrastructure of the establishment.
People who have a disability that prevents them from moving (temporarily or permanently, chronic or one-time), how do you fair with living alone?
This question is rather specific, so I know it’s not going to get many answers, but any answer is appreciated....
Google has more than doubled Play Store's app price limit to $1,000 (www.androidauthority.com)
Given the resources to accomplish it, what wildly impractical project would you finally pursue?
Does the USA have any open market cellular options that are legitimate pay-as-you-go and only for what you use options like Europe yet?
I’ve lived under a rock for 10 years. I did Metro ages ago while most were still on contracts. Surely we’ve reached true capitalist open market freedom by now. Is it still total closed market, noncompetitive, privateering corruption?
Do you have a more complicated shell history scheme than the distro default?
I’ve used distrobox more and more and am at the point where I need to start saving and integrating history differently. Or like, when I’m installing and building something complicated, I need to start saving that specific session’s history. I am curious what others might be doing and looking for simple advice and ideas.
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Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die | Your Steam games will go to the grave with you (www.techspot.com)
Visitor to Taiwan hit with $9,000 fine over 'roast chicken and pork combo' lunch box (www.abc.net.au)
Taiwan’s customs officials have issued a fine of NT$200,000 ($9,369) to a traveller for attempting to bring a lunch box containing pork into the country....
US Speaker Johnson: "We don't put any international body above our sovereignty" (youtu.be)
Mel's Hole (en.wikipedia.org)
Scientists reveal the brain's surprising role in regulating the immune system (www.psypost.org)
when you upgrade an OS, do you clean install or upgrade?
clean install: you make a backup, nuke the computer, install a fresh upgraded copy of the distro you want from a live usb, copy your data again to the computer....
Can't post an image, I get a 413 error.
As the titles says, I tried to post a 2.2mb image and get a 413 error. Any help?
17 cringe-worthy Google AI answers demonstrate the problem with training on the entire web (www.tomshardware.com)
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What hobbies or volunteer work require creative problem solving from lots of different areas?
I’m a bit of a jack of all trades. When I work on a project I use anything from woodworking and sewing to chemistry and physics to human physiology and psychology. I also like reading up then chatting about random science and history and art stuff. I like working with computers occasionally, and I’ll just randomly throw some...
[Community Challenge 36] The Wrong Sailor Moon (mander.xyz)
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