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Cake day: December 15th, 2023
  • Retro_unlimited@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•Expectation Vs. Reality
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    2 months ago

    I played with chat bots back in the AOL messenger days. There was this “Run-A-Bot” program I used to run at home, and when I was out I could chat with it and it was surprisingly interactive and realistic.

    The responses were probably hard coded to expected inputs, done the hard way… as I feel it should be.

    I thought wow if a company spent years add in more and more important data by hand this will be AMAZING in just a few years.

    Fast forward 20 years and the AI companies did it the most lazy way possible. Just auto feeding data scraped from the web. Yikes, all the trolls and fake info included.

    This new AI is just a sentence generator, it’s almost useless. They have some twisted algorithms to spit out junk but each one is leaning towards whatever twisted views the company that made it want it to spit out.

  • Retro_unlimited@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•Finally some housing
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    4 months ago

    Building a house out of dirt is the only way I will ever own a house. I knew this for the past 20 years.

    Just a few months ago I moved into my car, moved off grid, and started to build. At the moment we have a bit of land cleared, a septic system, and we have a water tank.

    These are the bags we will fill with dirt to make the walls. Once it’s build the dirt walls will keep the house comfortable year around (no need for heating or AC)

    This is how the bags will look when we start making them.

    It’s also crazy how I was able to buy and own an excavator for about what 2 months of rent would have been if I didn’t move. Living in the car saved a ton of money. But now we have a $3,000 RV to live in as we build a dirt house.

  • Retro_unlimited@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•This Season, Remember
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    7 months ago

    I have that book in storage, soon after septic is installed I plan to get my stuff here, need the tools to build.

    We have been planning on a composting toilet in the house.

    The septic will be used for the kitchen sink (it’s considered black water here) but everything else can be used for plants if we use safe soaps for the liquids and compost the solids long enough.

  • Retro_unlimited@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml•This Season, Remember
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    7 months ago

    I have been planning to homestead for close to 20 years, and just jumped into the lifestyle 2 months ago.

    My wife and I are living in a tiny SUV with our cat. We have a fridge, twin bed, warm blankets, plenty of food and water. We have an outhouse tent for our business. It has a $4 bucket with a $15 toilet lid. I added a container and a funnel in there for liquids, and we use bags for the solids. Works for us.

    We have explored the state and went to some really cool places, until we found land we purchased.

    As soon as the septic is installed we can legally live in an RV, we can start a compost pile, start a garden, get chickens, and try being as self sufficient as we can.

    I also want to make and design my own off grid things, for example making a wood gasifier. Then in an emergency we can run gas things from wood (generator, truck, tractor, etc).

    I plan to share my experience on YouTube once we have an RV, hoping I can help people to live a more sustainable life.