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.

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.”

HSR is the easiest example of rasterizing Flash content being a bad idea, because there is just so much content. Even just the Sbemails compilation (1-200) is 10 hours, and for a DVD-quality video (480p) that’s almost double the size of the HSR collection that I have (2000-2009 from archive org).

The site does work via Ruffle (even the menus, though some links seem broken) and they still make new ones (sbemail-210-robots, backtoawebsite) with Flash versions. There is also an old.homestarrunner so you could probably run this with a browser that still runs Flash, lacking one I’m not sure the exact URL to do so via standalone or even if the links will properly work there.

Local is still probably best, though still a mess with so many SWFs.

I mean… what entertainment option isn’t just a poor replacement for a better form of psychological enrichment? (I say this as someone with very little interest in sports)

And do what when Bowling Alone isn’t even an easy option?

Nice polygons.

This is the sort of thing that’d work well in Godot, too. As in native 2D, particularly cutscenes/backgrounds(/environment art) and maybe frame animations.

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.

Follow this link for more tec tips Would You Eat a Fish if It Had Arms and Legs?

Is there some The Onion story like “US Government turns off lights, pretends nobody is home at the White House in order to dodge debt collectors”? A quick search didn’t give one, if it doesn’t have one like that I am shocked.

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.

For others, instance-agnostic link for photo of said sticker.

☑I’m willing to be a full-conversion cyborg, but personality-wise I would easily be mistaken for a robot in such a scenario (and ideally I would still have some organics, if not more when it comes to microbiomes etc that make existing easier)

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.

Catch-22 (quote typed below).

“In order to be grounded, I’ve got to be crazy. And I must be crazy to keep flying. But if I asked to be grounded that means I’m not crazy anymore and I have to keep flying?”

“You’ve got it! That’s Catch-22.”

Plus, it’s less likely unless you have a terminal illness and want to punch out a week early due to severe pain or something. Probably not even that in the US.

Adult human: “I consent.”

Complete obliteration: “I consent.”

The industrial complexes: “I don’t!”

Isn’t there somebody you forgot to ask?

An actual robot? Remember: No copies.

Though I guess full-conversion cyborg doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. That and if I did look like a robot, I probably would have the “wait, you’re a human?” moment fairly often.

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)