Aha! Ok, that makes sense as well.

My Steam Deck is my child.

Maybe if I can get it to run a ‘good enough’ LLM, and also a robotics kinematics suite…

I can just start building DOG, with a Steam Deck for a face, instead of a Combine scanner bot.

Bingo!

Yes, the irony is certainly in great supply…

sigh

I mean, Tiktok has entire genres based around not using Tiktok, around lowering the level of engagement and use that you have with social media and just digital things generally.

They make and post videos on Tiktok, about not using Tiktok.

Its essentially perfectly absurd.

Tiktok is basically the ‘how much money would someone have to pay you to kill someone’ moral hypothetical, writ large.

The answer is that, with sufficient operant conditioning, human morality and logic is worth a few bucks a month, on average.

Gotta get them updoots, dopamine!

Perhaps ‘WiLBeR’ would be a compromise?

Its … basically following what I’m going to call ‘GLaDOS case’ rules.

???

Just sort of seems closer to the kind of silly spellings of robot names in a fair deal of movies and such?

Hell those people use an iPhone and nothing else lmao.

Extremely correct, and why I will never stop laughing at Mac users.

Nee-Dough:

Its… basically a squishy cube, presumably made of something resembling silicone.

Tiktok has been going apeshit over it the last few days, people getting into fights at stores to buy these things.

Sorry, I’m not entirely sure what you mean.

Did you mean to say:

“And need to have the best consumer GPU on the market, to run an LLM.”

… likely alluding to an RTX 5090?

So you would be saying that basically it is bullshit, the idea that everyone needs extremely expensive hardware, to run an LLM?

I’m basically just trying to say that the vast majority of users are very, very stupid, compared to a power user or actual dev.

Just think of everyone who bought beanie babies, funko pops, stanley cups, now I guess its ‘Nee-Dough’ or something.

Thats much closer to ‘the average user’ than you or me.

Marketing is unfortunately not about what you personally gaf about, its about mass appeal, what most people gaf about.

Users are fucking stupid, and will throw a fit over the most banal shit, for no explicable reason beyond ‘thing x gives me the ick’.

Tell a relative normie you use Fedora, they’ll mock you as a reddit dork mall ninja neckbeard.

I propose: WHARGRBL

I got Qwen 3.5 running on a Steam Deck.

It ain’t exactly blazing fast, but it does actually work.

(Reasonably fast if you go down to the 2B param model, I can get the 9B param variant working, though this makes Steam Decky very hot and bothered.)

Yeah, you absolutely do not need Nvidia hardware to run an LLM, but we get blasted with their propoganda suggesting otherwise just all the time in the English speaking West.

Because if you don’t need Nvidia, well, then, this whole AI bubble looks a lot more bubbly.

So, what it looks like to me from the pics of the assailant on the ground, is that he’s got a kind of reflective/radiative crash blanket over his legs.

To me, that would suggest he got shot in torso/legs, they apprehended him, then cut up or took off some of his clothes to do first aid, then covered him in the emergency blanket, awaiting guarded transport to a hospital.

… Not saying its impossible the entire thing was staged, that the assailant was essentially just planned as a potentially suicidal attscker, but also, the course of events does seem plausible as a match for a genuine attack.

It is entirely possible for a person to be shot in the lower body a few times, and be disabled / threat neutralized, but also not dead, especially if they get stabilizing treatment quite quickly.

Yep, its the first link of my EDIT 3 to the main post.

Double post but:

See EDIT 3 I’ve made to the main post.

Reposting my reply to a similar comment from another version of this post:

My guess, and this is a total guess, would be that if someone tried to go through metal detectors with a gun, and then it alarmed… my guess is all the shots that were heard would have been security turning that person into swiss cheese, before they got off a shot.

… If they were even going for their gun.

We don’t have anything approaching that level of detail or info yet though.

For reference, in case anyone wants to see what we’re talking about more directly:

https://cascadiabioregion.org/nine-regions-of-cascadia

(I picked this one because I am a blatant Seattle Supremacist /s)

So yeah, you’d have to overlay this kind of a map with say, county level political maps for the US, apologies to Canadians, I do not know what the Canadian approximate equivalent of a county is.

But yeah, then look at rivers, origin points, watersheds, dams, other critical infrastructure, etc, to see how this could possibly shake out.

The Greater Idaho idea was originally to essentially carve off as many counties in eastern WA and OR, basically east of the Cascades, and… move them into Idaho:

https://moveoregonsborder.org/the-maps/

I … guess they gave up on trying to take Spokane.

But uh yeah so basically everywhere between the Cascades, down to Medford, down further to Redding… would potentially be a war zone.

Like, I5 south of Portland would be a critical artery and thus a warzone, probably same with I90.

Personally, if this happens, I’m counting it as yet another thing Deus Ex ended up predicting.

There’s a conversation you can have with an ex NSF soldier, who tells you about how his squad got wiped out at ‘Squalnomie’, by other troops with thermoptic camo.

Squalnomie -> Snoqualmie, as in Snoqualmie Pass, I would assume.

Dems currently control only 18 State Legislatures.

Best case scenario… (imo):

Dems gain Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, New Hampshire, Georgia, North Carolina, Texas, Florida, Virgina.

So thats 27.

So… you’d then have to get 5 Rep State Legislatures on board with this.

Which might (?) be possible, there’s still a fair deal of ‘National Divorce’ sentiment on the right generally.

… and then, all hell would break loose.

Yeah, thats a great example of where you run into the differences between ‘Cascadia’ as a bioregion, defined primarily by watershed networks, snd ‘Cascadia’ as a maybe possible legal/political entity, based on current existing borders.

IIRC, the bioregion Cascadia basically only extends down to bits of Northern California… but the political reality doesn’t match well with this at all.

Perhaps state delegates could all send couriers to Goodsprings for a conference, to hash out the details, lol.

Cascadia vs Greater California vs … New Zion/Deseret?

The immediate problem would be that Idaho, eastern OR and eastern WA are very very seriously trying to do the whole Greater Idaho thing, and are basically chalk full of armed white supremacist theocrat bigots.

So… yeah.

I guess the ‘good’ news is that western WA has JBLM and a lot of Navy bases, and maybe enough of them would align with Cascadia … ?

The bad news is the Holy State of Greater Idaho would probably be able to dash and seize Hanford, and then be able to make dirty nuclear bombs.

But anyway…

Throw in Hawaii and then Cascadia and Japan and SK can form a trading bloc, and theoretically be able to back that up with maybe a little bit of the formerly US Navy?

Total spitballing here.

Alaska sure would be completely fucked.

Airline fuel is pretty expensive these days… for some reason… Didn’t BC/Yukon already basically say ‘fuck you’ to US truckers going between Alaksa and the 48, or I am not remembering that right?

Do you want Cascadia?

Because this is how you get Cascadia.

Literally 0 chance that BC would join a MAGA controlled USA.

… Non-zero chance that it would join WA OR and CA, should an actual dual civil war kick off.