Minimum wage is much lower for apprenticeships, plus I was only working 11-5. Once I completed the apprenticeship I started earning regular minimum wage. Saved most of the difference for a house deposit.

I didn’t say I did nothing, just that I didn’t spend much money after essentials are covered. Tbh, still don’t.

After work go to the beach, drink a can of cider, cook up some hotdogs for dinner and have a swim - it costs me under £1.

Been going out fruit picking lately, mostly plums, apples and blackberries. That costs £0 to do and you end up with delicious food out of it. Or lately, been making wines from some of them which was a small one time cost for some bottles.

Gardening and allotment, £50 a YEAR rent for the allotment and get a pretty big space from it. Still a WIP as I am new to that but I get to chat with people there along with grow my own fruit/veg. Before that I just had my small garden which I use to grow herbs.

If this is just “existing”, I feel like I would question who is the one that’s brainwashed.

Now that sort of thing could be more useful

Sure I guess, but its not like it has to be difficult to pay for all that stuff.

Living I’m south east UK and even at minimum wage its pretty easy to cover essentials. If you think spending more on things you don’t need will make you happier, that might be where you are going wrong.

The first time I felt like life was alright was after leaving school and moving out. Despite on paper being vastly below the poverty line. It didn’t feel like it, I could afford rent and food, didn’t really know what else to spend my money on. GTX1060 isn’t something you need to buy many of.

Main thing to reduce living costs is just share a house with other people. Our rooms still had their own locks so its not like anyone could go through my stuff.

I don’t think he has friends

Nope, not listening. I am using the increased friction as a reason for giving up and not using reddit at all.

Intelligence is working out that you don’t have to struggle. UK example, don’t move to London “for the jobs” if you are only finding minimum wage work.

You have already failed. Success is not measured in wealth.

If you are having a good time with friends/family around a fire pit with a total cost of £0. You are succeeding more than the richest man on earth who can’t get anyone to genuinely like him.

Used Lemmy for a while but still browsed reddit logged out a bit. I noticd this recently so its only Lemmy now.

You post something in public, it is public. You post knowing others might do things you don’t like with it; that’s the bargain. Especially on social media.

And people act like I am strange for not wanting my fucking personal ID tied to every online account!

Not true, I like my slop human generated thanks.

Yes. Plenty of manufacturers do sell computers without windows.

Every RAM stick I bought in the past 15 years is worth more per GB now than when I bought it… If you bought RAM in 2008 the same is true, I just didn’t buy RAM at that point.

That just gets a bad reputation because of non AI slop on social media.

Yeah you really should be asking how the fuck you send someone to prison with zero fucking evidence of them committing a crime.

Surely bare minimum is that several people in the legal system need to be losing their jobs over it. If not facing criminal negligence charges of their own.

Looked up some suggested uses as first projects and they sound so boring and useless. Smart home stuff, no thanks. Manage personal finances and budgets, don’t need tools for that let alone AI powered ones. Email, I don’t want to use email in the first place.

Using AI to complete bullshit work tasks that shouldn’t exist in the first place. Yep, I know that feeling very well.

Had loads in my last job. I could spend a few hours and struggle to fill in a few sentences for this bullshit form HR keep sending us, or I could ask ChatGPT to write the most obviously generic corpospeak crap that for some reason people like and are even impressed when I say that I used AI for it.

What do they use them for? I have played with it a little out of curiosity, even got an LLM running on my phone until it got stuck in an endless loop spewing nonsense. Not touched agents yet.

I haven’t really found much use for LLMs yet beyond rewording or summarising text and even that is rarely worth the effort of loading it up.

Is Elon the only person on the planet who wanted to and could afford to go to pedo island but got turned down?

Isn’t it hash values of it rather than actual images? Or am I thinking of something else.

In the UK before AI even existed our laws covered this and make it illegal.