I find it telling that Trump has not been able, in this second term, to do what he appeared to do so easily in his first term (lower interest rates). I believe in some respects, the United States is under tight control, and it is not by Trump - or any president. Interest rates are set by… Those Who Set Interest Rates. Whether or not that aligns with Trump’s desires, as it turns out, is merely coincidental.

Republicans pass up no opportunity to deride the post office and they defund it/depopulate it every chance they get. I was just at the post office, huge post office in a major metro that’s always been very busy. It now has only one of three buildings open, half the lights off inside it and one clerk at the counter. The line is always out the door. Meanwhile several people in line, quite obviously Republicans (old, white, obnoxious/noisy), are bitching and moaning about how shit the post office is. Republicans are stupid, shitty, worthless people.

I didn’t understand this so I looked it up. The game literally can run on the headset’s mobile chipset, no computer needed. Possible through foveated rendering. Absolutely insane. And there are 131 verified titles at launch.

Had to be all marketing. Those things were ugly AF.

Well, I mean, it’s twice the resolution (2160 vs 1080), half again more on the refresh rates (144 vs 90 Hz), weighs 150g less (409 vs 555 g) and it doesn’t have fresnel lenses - if the whole “completely wireless, lighthouse-free, works standalone or with your computer and can stream” wasn’t enough of an upgrade lol. It is for me, I put myself on the list for a 256.

Aside from the tether, which is just a pain in the ass, I won’t miss the screen door effect and the god rays.

I bought an OG Vive about 5 years ago on Craigslist for $300 and honestly, it’s still usable and a very representative experience of what VR can do, in my opinion. Looks like it can be had for under $200 these days.

Those are the cards manufactured in Australia.

Softbank and Oracle are gonna die

Please I can only get so erect.

Well, sure.

Maybe win some elections and don’t get ICEd before you start threatening people? Just sayin.

Yeah they’re gone now. This is one of those things where I can’t get a capitalist to explain it to me. There has to be an absolutely monstrous market for this. So why does it go unfilled?

Fallout 4 Script Extender This mod list is PC only and requires F4SE
Silent Protagonist Get rid of the annoying voiced protagonist
SCDC - Subjective Cinematic Dialogue Camera Camera no longer focuses on you during dialog (goes with Silent Protagonist)
Extended Dialogue Interface Get rid of the abbreviated choice wheel, get a full dialog like FNV, spells out what you will actually say
Start Me Up - Alternate Start and Dialogue Overhaul Start the game as any character you like, Sean quests remain but become third party
Start Me Up - Patch for Silent Protagonist Required for Start Me Up to work with Silent Protagonist
Classic-Overseer-Monofonto Font Replacer Brings back the FNV font for dialog
HUD Plus Plus Not FNV related but really useful for gathering crafting mats
HUDFramework Required by HUD Plus Plus
Improved Map with Visible Roads Makes the Pip Boy map more like the FNV map
PerkPointsPerLevel Makes character progression more like FNV by doubling your perk points
Faster Terminal Displays Speeds up terminal displays so they are more like FNV
Deadlier Deathclaws Makes Deathclaws fearsome again
Preston Garvey No Radiant Settlement Quests Self explanatory
Mod Configuration Menu Required by several mods
No More Creation Club New Gets rid of Creation Club note on the splash page
Achievements Allows achievements despite mods

There is a way to do it with several mods that I did. It works great.

Well yes and if you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. I think it can reasonably be said we’re kinda spitballing here.

I’m not here to argue that point. But my crappy NUC based LLM can answer the Beatles question. What it can’t answer is “what was the name of the guy who famously rolled his eyes while Yoko Ono screwed up his performance?” Right off the top of my head, neither can I. But OpenAI’s model would have no problem with that question.

So when I say “smarter than you or I” I don’t mean AGI and I’m not trying to get into an AGI conversation. I mean something that runs locally, doesn’t rely on the Internet and can answer almost any general trivia question accurately. And LLMs are already there, but not yet on your phone. When they are on your phone, people won’t need OpenAI or Sam Altman’s models anymore. That’s all I’m trying to say. I’m refuting Altman’s claim that we will pay for intelligence like a utility.

I don’t make a lot of predictions about artificial intelligence, but I will go out on a limb on this one and make one: this will never happen.

The human brain runs on 20 watts of power. Right now I have an AI running on an Intel NUC (Qwen 2.5 9B) that can do most home automation tasks I run through it (setting timers, setting reminders, making to-do lists, turning things off and on), as well as answer general questions (“who were the members of The Beatles?”) and be (mostly) correct. It uses about 65 watts of power to do so.

It’s nowhere near as smart as I am and it uses 3x the electricity I do. But I couldn’t do this even last year. Efficiency gains to this technology have a ceiling so high that I don’t think most people believe it because they see all these data centers being built and people like Sam Altman talking dumb shit like this. The future of AI will be local. It will run on your phone and be smarter than you, and in fairly short order.

We are already able to run models locally (Qwen 3.8 27B) that blow last-gen frontier models away (and give current frontier models a run for their money), but you need a high-end setup like an RTX 5090 24G and 64G system RAM.