Normal person sad. Temporary sad. A-few-manageable-aspects sad.

Not that the sad bit is even the deciding factor here when we’re talking about an expensive face brick that would probably give me motion sickness in games.

Tell us without telling us

Still using a 1050Ti, non-fiber internet, not buying stuff, and not even the right kind of sad for that.
Mark Zuckerburg sniping me for sport is a more likely scenario.

To me it seems like the VR market might have a high-end foothold but otherwise seems like a “try again in 30 years” for the general market (so, slightly better than 3D TV’s fate). Which isn’t really Valve-specific.

Though I’d also say <top level comment> is uncharitable way to frame it, the headline reminds me of the free PC codes for Portal 2 with Co-op crossplay early on in the Steam days. Though I’m sure AI-market-induced cost increase is a big part of it so apology actually isn’t a bad way to put it, without ‘failure’ factoring in.

I don’t use Gnome3 because I dislike CSD, also Gnomes should be sending me to the Nordic mythology realm known as “the Hidden World” NOT removing features from my file manager.

He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century and a pivotal figure in modernist music.

And I don’t recall knowing of him. Is that the point of your comment?

EDIT: and what was it, obligatory XKCD one of today’s lucky 10,000

Not in Texas, but I did largely ignore country. Sure I did find out that I liked anything that could be called ‘folk music’ (or some derivative) instead, but I don’t think I was ever able to explain that to my grandmother beyond ‘Johnny Cash is fine’. Worse with whatever people were playing in their car, 99% of the time ‘off’ was likely the only alternative. I think this is a genre definition problem with country.

Also there’s tendency to listen to singles/hits and not look much beyond that, disinterest in instrumental music and love songs.

Closest thing I like to rap is Aesop Rock (and even then I like the stuff that breathes a little and isn’t too repetitive). Though I have also looked into a few iconic songs and sample usage, but that hasn’t really done much to my music library. Similar things with Gorillaz and their collabs (though I also stopped at Plastic Beach).

Th-The help someone needs? In this in country, in this economy, right away, and on a regular ongoing basis‽ Even sillier after a life-in-prison crime.

Not that the phrase is great.

RAM is the new component to become overpriced.

It is <2016, 2019, 2026>*. I’m using a 1050Ti.

* new, re-used in otherwise new build, and not buying anything respectively.

Not quite, I would definitely still have a mortal brain (remember: no copies).

I’m sure if it could go this far, keeping my brain alive to 110yrs+ would probably be possible (and cyborg elder/geezer might even be a bit cool) though I also expect I wouldn’t get that far if there were any reason for me to be in dangerous situations.

Not that I would even want to be immortal, anyway.

Nothing. I’m not spiritual, though I do sort of believe some things like that in a non-literal fashion. I don’t believe I am part of some sort of unity, though I would say that yeah in an abstract sense I am just a complex multi-cellular organism and in most cases cooperation with other multi-cellular organisms is preferred. With the systems how they are now though, I am not participating (even if it is to my own detriment).

Design? It would require a bunch things that likely won’t happen in my lifetime. Basically a transhumanist re-do. Get my brain somewhere and somewhen better, get it going again ideally with a mix of symbiosis+tech that allows existing comfortably. This could take a lot of forms too (many that others would find too alien/isolated), though not too hopeful about the future and that I could actually have a place in it.

Slowroll is an interesting idea, but not much talk about it (maybe because experimental) and when I tried Tumbleweed I hated patterns. It also seems like the update model could be better, like a combo of security updates and stability based on ABI compatibility checks (ideally avoid breakage even if it means an older package, mark issue type with applications and tell me when updating may actually fix).

Nix too, but I’m not sure it’d do what I want easily. Plus, no dynamic linking is a double pain for me (on top of normal software, Godot+Nim-lang). Not sure about redundancy of app containers (which update on a diff time-frame) while having slow internet.

Legacy nvidia driver that’s a pain now, too.

I wish their name, community they created, and other post with a link in it could give some insight to what their purpose for creating an account was.

Seems to be fine for the question itself. Doing it this way is common, though typically the opener talks about premise more with the example being a short second paragraph.

Though I could definitely see having it as a reply due to length, also at least to stop non-answer top-level replies and at most to get engagement with their self-answer.

That doesn’t mean you’ll just die though

Some of the things I mentioned you just might. Hypothermia or heat stroke if you’re homeless in the wrong place during winter/summer.

Slow death is also worse if you ask me. “It could be prevented” yeah sure, doesn’t mean it will.

all alone on the savannah

We have:

• extremely expensive healthcare, business more important than public health
• health insurance tied to employment, less worker protections
• sprawl and car-dependent living, a sea of oversized trucks

So yeah… one medical issue can add massive debt, and avoiding care or bleeding out in a non-ambulance on the way to a hospital are possibilities. Or a teacher or nurse living in their car being hit by a drunk driver. Lots of other ways to get onto a downward spiral to some death of despair.

it’s a lot of work to survive because a simple mistake means death

This is also true in the US with someone already living paycheck-to-paycheck (and the mistake doesn’t have to be their own).

More time/effort on survival sure (/more discomfort), though most here likely don’t have much luxury (certainly not their main reason-for/outcome-of employment) unless you’re really watering down the meaning.

I don’t mind doing unpaid things for other human beings (if it matters, if conditions aren’t terrible)… but things like interviews, driving, and paperwork I wouldn’t want to do even if I were paid for them (not that it’s even a thing). And really between housing, driving, and all types of insurance… I don’t see much hope for a decent life.

Most things seem like scams or junk anyway (extortion if it’s actually useful, reliable, or good for health), get me out of here. Physically put my brain in a Matrix if you must (not the Facebook digital-real-estate one).

Have you looked into drop-in (ZLUDA) or recompile (SCALE, chipStar) things? Though they may not have been helpful with the years gone by (and may each have their own pros/cons).

I’m still using a 1050Ti (and legacy driver shifting to AUR did block me from updating), value doesn’t seem great and not going to buy something used from eBay. So that still complicates things for me.

Distro-wise I probably want something slower than Arch but not sure about point releases. And I am hoping for something that does updates in a way more friendly to slower internet (giving less update friction), but I suspect it doesn’t exist. Some things (OpenSUSE, NixOS) seem like they might be closer to I want but I have hangups about them (Patterns on SUSE and lack of videos for Slowroll, NixOS having multiple solutions for dynamically linked executables especially if I decide to stop using Steam directly).

I know it’s because I don’t have many, but my subscriptions are pretty much dead (somewhat niche stuff). More general stuff (like this comm that is not hard to find anyway due to activity) feels like filler and some other comms I might visit might have stuff I don’t want to commonly see (like new accounts made for blatant self-promotion).

Relates to @zxqwas@lemmy.world and @whaleross@lemmy.world (why someone would be browsing /all)