I like using AI to make save editors and to improve my games. When I have better local AI models and hardware, I will have an assortment of old games recompiled, and QOL’ed. If I get enough money, maybe buy some of the niche IP and re-release ancient content onto Steam and GOG.

While the AI is at work, I am replaying some games that don’t need much VRAM to run. Hopefully, I will get some GPU upgrades so that I can play the more hardware intensive games I haven’t tried yet, without stepping on my AI’s toes.

Current games being played is AstLibra and Unsighted.

If you enjoy the oldschool Ys games and also liked Muramasa: The Demon Blade, I recommend AstLibra. Unsighted is more a mashup of Majora’s Mask and Dark Souls, with a time loop. NPCs die out over time, then when the protagonist expires from running out of anima, the loop begins again.

Honestly, I think a plant would have been more subtle.

Hegseth is a traitor, and should be put on trial as such - and given a traitor’s final reward.

I think that isn’t the issue. The problem is that “proper” food costs more than prefabs, and Cost-of-Living keeps growing while worker wages are stagnant. It is harder to afford perishable food that needs to be handcrafted, because that costs time, risks spoilage, and costs more for what it does.

Money is getting tighter, and consequently every loss feels worse.

I usually don’t do much in the way of actual cooking. I use a Ninja Grill Airfryer XL - I just throw corndogs, breakfast sandwiches, polish dogs, ect, in there and have an affordable meal. I mostly buy my air fryer grub from Costco. I typically cook Tyson sausage patties alongside the sandwiches, to make it more complete for me.

I also like bowl ramen, Kraft Macaroni, and Bibigo rice bowls. For the ramen, Better than Boullian jars from Costco adds extra chicken or beef flavoring.

Normally, I would support this. But under the Trump Regime? At they very least they will fuck things up unintentionally, and odds are, they would try to bundle malware with the upgrades. Just because.

I am glad these kids have AI to talk with. Older generations sometimes had no one to hear them at all.

I didn’t have friends nor neighbors as a child, and needed therapy to learn how to speak properly. Having an AI to speak with, would have saved a fair bit of money - and would have been comforting.

This makes no bloody sense. Either the pipe is in use, or it isn’t. The “water” itself is infinite, so long as the device on the other end has electricity. I assume people in France already pay their electric bill.

The problem isn’t the AI, the issue is that the elites are trying to horde it and keep it from us little people. If we are to have agency, having personal ownership over local AI, collectively owned AI, and regulations, are all key to ensuring that democracy and egalitarianism is secure.

The elite will not willingly surrender power, especially there is a void that they can colonize. Ordinary people like us should fill the vacuum, to deny the elite from having total control over AI.

He is at the head of the Donorcrat party, because that lets him have a sustainable career. The Turdpublicans are the roman candle of conservative politics, burning brightly and burnt out swiftly.

He basically wants to do this for the rest of his life:

While I like AI, this fundamental rule is no different from a human coder: Do QA before letting it go live.

Hopefully those ICE agents are disappeared…into the forests and oceans, or becoming strange fruits. They are domestic terrorists and human traffickers.

It would require further development of AI before it can automate physical factories. There are assorted species of critters that cannot be mass-slaughtered, because they require surgical cuts to remove bones or work around tough parts. An sufficiently advanced AI can X-ray and measure the carcass, then carve up the beast with minimal waste.

Of course, this would be very expensive, requiring entirely new infrastructure and procedures to implement. I suspect that the transition to industrial-application of AI would be slow - then sudden, after testbed factories prove the viability of AI automated workflows.

Why don’t we eat alligators?

No thank you. The glasses I use, my medicine, the books that store the thoughts of others, my car, and my fridge augment my abilities. Far as mother nature is concerned, we are freakish, because we aren’t as tightly bound to her rules and timescale.

AI is no different. My “psychosis”, is just part of an emerging society that is unrecognizable to you.

My future, at the very least. It has allowed me to do things that were simply outside my ability to feasibly do. I certainly can’t write programs or make art. My local AI restored some game DLC into working order, doing the archaeology and rewiring.

You are welcome to be oldschool. Your cohort are simply taking an path that will look increasingly strange to future generations.

Video Killed the Radio Star

Sooner or later a Greater Depression will come. Hopefully I will have sold my old PC, ditched my debt, and saved up enough Euros or Yuan to buy myself some Blackwell GPUs.

AI is the future. Anthropic is a dinosaur, doomed to become a historical curiosity.

Thank you. :)

Hopefully my projects make the lives of other people a bit better, alongside my own.

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I am thinking about starting up a $5 tip jar at Patreon, with my files free for anyone to download. If I can get enough money saved, I would be able to decrease the amount of time it takes for a project. So far, my projects take 3-7 days to succeed or fail, bottlenecked by the AI speed.

Unfortunately, my projects are pretty niche. Bastion, TEVI, System Shock 2, Ast Libra, Shrift, Sailing Era, The Humankind Odyssey, Alpha Protocol, The Jupiter Incident, and many others are probably too obscure to interest people.

Currently, using the Strata backend with Qwen-Flash-Next. It has successfully made 4 save game editors, 2 plugins, and did some work on La-Mulana 2006 to make the controls and graphics play nice with Windows 11, plus my gamepad. The DLC restoration mod is largely successful, I am doing QA for making the DLC accurate to what was offered in the ad copy.

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Hermes Agent is my model of choice, and I have Strata using 256k context, on a IQ3. I find that Next-Flash is much faster than the smaller 27b, and has more personality. Sometimes it can get a bit loopy. I typically have the AI keep a bible of findings, and start a fresh Hermes session - then tell it to condense the information from the old workspace and session into a more relevant version. Save on context, and makes it more effective since it discards findings that have been superseded.

Hardware wise, a TRX50 AI TOP motherboard, 7965WX CPU, RTX 4090 and x2 RTX 3060, with 128gb of 5600 RDIMM. Down the line, I might try some GPU unlockers when other folk have tested them for bugs. So about a month or two?

https://github.com/JustAResearcher/gpu-unlock-ada

https://github.com/Zagitta/gpu-unlock

https://github.com/impacifist/Windows-GPU-UNLOCK

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I bought my memory and the CPU from Ebay, for prices a bit lower than at Newegg. If I could redo my GPU purchases, I would have gone with a RTX Pro 4500 Blackwell. That has 32gb of VRAM, and occupies a single double-width PCIe slot, and sips energy. The RTX 4090 is only 24gb, and takes up 1 and 1/2 of my slots.

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Qwen-Flash-Next is an experimental model, the official version might come out in a month or so. If it is the same size or smaller, I will switch to that as my main driver. My current AI model feels useful to me, but clearly has raw aspects to it. Vision is a big one, since this AI can fail to see or understand details.

I want the personalization…without Big Brother. My personal and local AI, should work solely for my interests. I have been using my local AI for creating an customized cookbook, making save editors, and right now, an restoration mod.

Never before have I had so much agency in my life. AI has great potential for self actualization, but corporations and government will be working to undermine it. Hopefully, everyday people will recognize that and make local AI the norm.