u/PresenceOld1754

I figured there would be some automated emails or processes but nah, nothing.

No new holds, no emails. How long did it take you to get the ball rolling?

So tldr I actually can't afford to go to a suny and the offers are still up on the cuny portal so I'm thinking pull out of the suny and accept the offer to go to medgar evers.

I took one semester of chemistry before dropping it, because I already had earth science regents. Idk why my guidance counselor put that on my schedule. And I've never had Physics.

I'm short 8,000 dollars.

I got a scholarship, but it doesn't cover room and board. It's a last dollar thing, so it just pays for whatever you're left with after all the aid and scholarships.

I got 12k from fafsa.

I have a job this summer. $17.50 after tax, 25 hours a week, 6 weeks, that's like $2,400 after tax.

I'm kinda strapped for cash right now and I was wondering maybe I should just start applying to stores in mass. It's basically the only experience I have, and I'm feeling a lot of dread at the idea of working in a Walgreens again.

I was wondering how you guys enjoy your jobs, maybe I just need to man up. No pain no gain.

I am majoring in Computer Engineering, which is 50% electrical engineering and 50% computer science.

Are there any (realistic) things you would want to see in an irl bangboo? any features?

A bangboo would need to move in it's environment autonomously. So it would need to understand the distance from an object, so it would need an ultra-sonic sensor. It would also need an IMU sensor which just tells the computer its position in space. Is it moving up, down, left or right?

Bangboo would also need to both identify and track humans faces and recognize objects, so computer vision with a 5 megapixel camera. You would want it looking at you when you speak to it. Also needs good microphones for that.

While I don't have the skill to make a bangboo have an artificial flexible spin to look up and down, I can make the head go left and right. The head will be divided from the body in two pieces. They would be a servo or a motor with a turn radius limit coded in so it could look elsewhere without having to move its whole body.

The legs show in zzz would kinda be impossible to get working, so I'm thinking instead of a triangle it would be more like a flared cylinder? meaning the base of the feet would be more wide than pointy, like a bucket shape? It would lift one leg after another like a pendulum, but I'm not actually sure how it would move in a direction other than straight... I'll have to figure that out.

The walking can be trained millions of times in simulation in something like nvidia's isaac lab. That's how all those robot dogs or humanoid robots are able to balance on balls or do back flips. They were trained.

The ears are obviously just antennas for something. FM radio? Wifi? Not sure.

The face is just a curved lcd screen, I can make animations for different states easily.

Finally, the AI. I've seen a few videos using local LLMs but they're quick slow, if you just wanted an AI assistant they're okay, but I don't think if I gave control of the movement to the AIs they would be any good. Then there's claude, gemini or chat gpt but those as expensive as hell and I'm completely broke. Idk if I'm allowed to link videos, but look up art of the problem or brenpoly, that's kinda what I want to do.

The llms are also necessary for it to do what it tells you and make long term observations about you or the environment based on it's sensors and camera.

The entire thing would run on a raspberry pi and an nvidia jetson nano. Raspberry pi also makes an ai board attachment for the og pi so that could be an option too.

I want to make something alive. Fighting ethereals or running stores autonomously may not be realistic, but making my own little pet? Could be possible.

So basically the router just disconnects. No ethernet, no wifi, and then it comes back after a few minutes.

I thought maybe it's a firmware problem, but nah you can't actually update your own firmware.

It is kinda old, got it in 2020 so I guess it's just showing it's age? Does anyone else have experience with these mini DCs? Is it a router problem or a service problem?

It's really becoming a problem, I was just banned from Overwatch for 6 hours because I DC'd from a match.

In my freshman year of high school, I was recommended a video on youtube, the Junker Queen cinematic. I knew nothing about overwatch, I didn't even know No Mercy was about Overwatch, so from that video alone to the entire play overwatch, really changed who I was.

Seeing all these cinematics, these heroes, the music, everything was so beautiful. It was like meeting Jesus Christ for the first time. This was basically my first ever online multiplayer game.

I started playing on October 5th 2022, because servers were full the on the 4th, on an old PS4. Despite all the controversies, I played every single day, for hours. This is where the cracks started to show.

Instead of doing my homework or studying, I would just play Overwatch. I didn't really care because as long as I got to be a hero, what mattered?

I didn't really have friends, and who needed them when you had Overwatch? I started looking for other people to play with, so if I couldn't play with you, I simply would not bother interacting with you. I also (still) struggle socially, and many of the tutorials I saw on youtube were all about common interest, and there was nothing I loved in the world more than Overwatch. This made finding friends hard because at the end of the day, Overwatch wasn't exactly popular among ANY age group at the time.

There was a kid in my health class who did play, so we exchanged contact. But immediately I realized he wasn't really an OW player, since he literally only had like 7 hours in the past 3 seasons. Then weeks later, this guy invites me to play soccer at a park. I turned him down and unironically said I'd rather play overwatch. Not because of distance, or time, or my parents. But because this game was more important than anything in my life.

In fact, that winter it was -10 degrees and a borderline blizzard at 8:00pm. My headphones broke, and I couldn't play overwatch without headphones, so instead of doing literally anything else, I made a 15 minute trek to five below just for headphones for overwatch.

I didn't join any clubs because it's a waste of time, the grind to get out of bronze never stopped. In the summer, I just played Overwatch morning to night day in and day out.

Today, I play Overwatch on a computer. Why? Because Overwatch players said PC was the correct platform, that consoles are nothing but shitters. Not because I had any interest in PC games or mnk, but because it was the right thing to do as an OW player.

I don't regret it, because MNK IS superior to a controller, and building PCs is very fun (I've done 3) but I didn't do it for the right reasons initially.

Even when I was playing Valorant for 6 months because the shitty dell I bought couldn't run overwatch, all I could think about was overwatch.

throughout highschool I continue to get no friends and no bitches, joined no clubs and spent all my allowance on kiriko skins. When I had summer jobs, it was just food and skins.

Literally wrote my college essay about Overwatch.

I thought what was missing from my life was someone who played overwatch. I got what I wanted in my senior year, a girl who occasionally played Overwatch, who only got insanely addicted to it because of me (for context, she literally finished the battle pass BEFORE mid season this season). But beyond her obsession with wuyang's abs, we didn't really vibe as people. We liked the same things, but whenever we played together it was just silence. I thought this was what I wanted. Someone like me. Idk.

1,395 hours. Sometimes I like to imagine me life without overwatch, if I spent 1,395 hanging out with friends or 1,395 hours in the gym or 1,395 hours learning how to make robots and other cool tech stuff. I have wasted 4 years of my life because I'm a fucking idiot.

And after this I'm just going to get back on OW because I have nothing better to do with my life.