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I remember when I first started driving a rideshare in 2018, I didn’t know what the fuck to do. I just looked at a lot of YouTube videos, And I highly recommend: the Rideshare Guy and the Show Me The Money Club. Also, The Simple Driver and Kim Couch are really good also. Anytime you get in a jam, and you need to find out how to do a particular thing in the Uber or Lyft app, I highly recommend looking that up and using the Rideshare Driver to help you. They are the quickest, clearest, easiest way for help I used the Rideshare guy and his crew a lot, and a lot of other drivers for help when I first started driving Rideshare. Now I’m a Rideshare driving pro. I eat sleep and drink driving Rideshare. I haven’t driven in a while because my car’s broken down. That’s what Uber driving does to you. It is really good at first but then your car. Reads a lot and Uber and Lyft continue to decrease the pay to drivers. Uber is very convenient so new drivers sign up a.l the time, the Uber and Lyft service is also pretty awesome too, so there is plenty of demand for it, so there is that.

This is a totally different game than working for a living. Totally different. Than working for a regular job. It is far better to work for a place where you park your car ar each day then to have to actually depend on and put wear and tear on all the time. I am a full time Rideshare Driver so I know. What you want to do is get your expenses, all your expenses, as low as possible so the money, the income that you get from Uber or Lyft , you keep most of it. And that’s what I do. I teach drivers how to keep most of their money from each trip.

That reads 6000 5 star trips.

Here is a quick info page about me.

Sean

 

Know this about A.I.

 

A.I is extremely fast   in every way you can possibly imagine. Snapping your fingers is actually pretty slow, but A.I. data throughput can travel back and forth from Florida to California several times during a single finger snap.

 

A.I. is  extremely power hungry.   The average  A.I. data center pulls about 50 percent of the energy/electricity that a bitcoin mining farm pulls which is a lot of juice! An entire A.I. data center pulls about the equivalent of the power to  70 average homes.

 

A.I is very hot.   Each server contains a lot of very heavy duty hardware and that hardware is hot! A lot of that electricity is pulled by the massive A.C. Units that are dedicated just to cooling the A.I. servers. The various components inside an A.I. server is hot enough to fry an egg. The temperatures outside each A.I. Server rack are kept down around 85 – 115 degrees Fahrenheit, which is still crazy hot with all that cooling. Data centers are usually kept at about 60 degrees Fahrenheit.

 

Chatgpt alone   is around 8500 various servers and systems that resemble the attachment. There are usually about 500 or 600 hundred servers and systems in a non A.I. data center and that is a lot of units to support.

 

The data centers alone.  are like 4 and 5 times the size of regular data centers . Each server  requires a lot of space. Space in a data center is hard to come by after the initial build out unless room for expansion is planned for.

 

When a person sends a single message to chatgpt that message is handled by one instance and then the very next messages it doesn’t matter how fast that message is sent, that 2nd message goes to an entirely different bot.

 

The actual core chatgpt servers are located physically in Texas USA, but they connect to cloud servers and then those servers connect to other servers in many states across the U.S. this all can happen about 3 times during the blink of an eye. Open A.I. is building out data centers around the globe just to keep up with such heavy demand, that is huge growth!

 

A.I. is eventually, probably going to be the end of humanity as we know it.

As Mo Gawdat said “We fucked up” Mo is a highly intelligent Egyptian public speaker. Among many other things.

 

A.I. is here to stay though, the choice has already been made for us, so we need to embrace it. It is extremely lucrative, therefore it is very popular,  it also saves humanity a lot of time, and that is just 1 reason why humanity loves it.

 

I learn from it each day. I LOVE A.I. like the rest of humanity does.

I used A.I. to help me with a lot of things on this page.

www.ridesharedriver.blog

My Takeaway as a Creator

 

Today was a reminder of something every independent creator needs to face head-on:

 

> **No one will ever care about your project as much as you do.**

 

Not a company.

Not a platform.

Not a service.

Not even the smartest AI in the world.

 

I went into this thinking I’d get a clean, proofread version of my rideshare eBook in about an hour — maybe two, tops. I ended up spending nearly **twelve hours** waiting, troubleshooting, questioning, refreshing links, and asking over and over again, “Where is my clean PDF?”

 

What I got back were broken promises and half-finished files.

Files that were missing chapters.

Files with blank pages.

Files that erased all the original layout, images, and effort I put into creating this book in the first place.

 

And the worst part? Every one of those files was labeled “final.”

 

As a creator — especially one who built this eBook from scratch based on my real-world experience — I realized that relying on automation alone is not just risky… it’s disrespectful to my own work.

 

When you make something, whether it’s a blog, a book, a course, or even a tweet — you’re putting your **time**, your **story**, and your **voice** into that thing.

 

And when it comes time to polish it, share it, or sell it, you want to believe the tools you use will treat your work with the same respect you do.

 

But they don’t.

 

They automate.

They guess.

They “approximate.”

 

But they don’t *care* the way a human creator does.

They don’t sweat the details.

They don’t get frustrated when the layout breaks.

They don’t feel embarrassed when the link doesn

 

A lot of people go to Midjourney and other AI websites

to have pictures created. When I need a graphic created. I go to

Microsoft and use their Copilot for creating pictures. Any type of picture that

I can dream up, I use Copilot and make sure that I also include the resolution

that I want the output created in. for example, if I want the output created for a TikTok

video, I will enter 1080 x 1920 in with my prompt. If I want that image to be used in a YouTube long-format video, then I will enter 1920 x 1080 into that prompt. If I want the picture

created for use in an Instagram video, then I will add 1080 x 1080 into that prompt.

Make certain you add in exactly what it is that you want in your prompt. These are machines and will only perform exactly what you instruct them to do, so be specific.

I use MS Copilot to create images for free. Midjourney charges for them.

 

Create an image of a dog on a bike.

 

I just uploaded a video to YouTube

containing the Oil Change I did right before 

Hurricane Milton made landfall in Tampa Bay.

recently. Also, Some of the destruction from that storm.Why owning a Prius through that storm 

was so awesome, and the ongoing recovery process. It can be viewed here. It is over 2 hours long.I am also going to upload it tomorrow to my

other Tiny YouTube channel called Minimize Me.

Please like this video and subscribe to both channels. https://youtu.be/TEofk9qvbn4?si=taZEIUD8vKHWKxWX 

Today is the second day without power in Tampa Bay from Hurricane Milton. I have been watching the Florida Outage map and I calculated these power companies to be restoring power at a rate of 17-20000 restores per hour. That is restoring power at a pretty good clip and I am grateful. There are droves of things that are very bad, to have people working in the field, around the clock that are completely dedicated to the restoration of power for those that have none due to Hurricane Milton is so awesome! Sure, I depend on power for so much, until you have no power at all you take it for granted all the time. I try to flick a light on all the time and I am reminded that I have no power. Then there is the temperature which sux but ai think about this. Irma made landfall in early September in 2017 and September is a very hot month in Florida. Hurricane Ian struck in late September of 2022 and I noticed at night it was like 5 degrees cooler than it was with Hurricane Irma. Then Hurricane Milton made landfall on October 9th and it is like a full 10 degrees or so cooler than it was with Irma. I remember I hunkered down for Irma at my younger brothers house and the power was already out there when I arrived at 10 AM. Irma didn’t come until that night and there was no power. So I wasn’t going to die, but it was miserably hot! I rinsed off the house today and there was insulation pretty much all over it. This is what I learned from Hurricane Milton. When a big storm hits in Florida, want to be in a building that was built (or like in my case manufactured) after 2004 because the codes were upgraded that year because of Hurricane Andrew. Also, you want to spend your money on 1 time cost for things like hurricane shutters, doors, windows, fireproofing, and you do not under any circumstances want to live near a body of water. Humans are drawn to water they love to live on or near water. It is well known that living near water is very expensive, and causes some pretty big problems. I just do not know why anyone does that. I read a book once by Joel Salitan and in ot he talked about his dream home. That dream home was super awesome! He talked about it being built into a mountain because mountains help with temperature control and all kinds of practical things. His dream home became my dream home pretty quick. I really like Joel a lot. I watch him and read his stuff all the time.

 

I post every month on the 10th pictures of all my vital stats including of course my weight at www.onlyyourbodymatters.com. I calculated that at my current rate of weight loss and my current weight, I would be down to under 200 LBS by  06/05/2024 – 06/08/2024. I have always ridden the Peloton at night taken a shower and then eaten. I watched this YouTube video the day before yesterday by this guy his name is Thomas Delauer. He said in that video to exercise after you eat. So I made a simple switch and I noticed the next day that I lost an extra pound that put me at 201.5 pounds, then I checked it again the next day and I was which is a huge deal to me. I just can’t remember when I was last under 200 pounds, I estimate that it
was in 2016 or so. So that’s what I do now all the time.

 

The thing about driving for Uber (Human) I have never driven for Uber Eats. Is that  Anytime you accept a request, if the ride goes perfectly (Which sometimes it does not) What is happening at that moment is that you are saying yes to that rider but no to any rides that may be larger. So when you accept a request any request it has got to be as close to your preference as possible. When I first started driving for Uber in 2018. This opportunity was  Just NOT available at all. The only thing that was available was if a trip was going to be longer than 45 minutes then that driver would be notified, so you could tell at that moment if you were going to be late or not for any type of engagement. That is all it would say. So if that trip was 46 minutes or 90 minutes that is all you would see. You could not tell where it was going, which direction it was going none of that. Now, you can see how much money the driver is going to receive and where exactly that trip is going. That is a lot of information, that previously was not available. So when a request is accepted you are saying no to all of the other requests that may come through. Sometimes there are no ride requests, and sometimes there are a lot the thing is you have to hold out for the rides that are closest to your preferences. There have been many times that there are not any requests coming in and then a big request comes in. There also have been many times when no requests are coming in and then nothing comes in and you just have to pack it in and come back and do it again another day. You absolutely need to know, when to do that when driving for Uber.

Today is Sunday the 5th of May otherwise known as Cinco de Mayo. The plan was to have a job in April 2024 but that did not happen. The day after my car broke down
I put some of my things on eBay which I hated to do, but it was absolutely necessary. I put my zoom telephoto lens on there and ended up accepting an offer of $350.00
for it and I paid a little over $600.00 for it from Amazon in 2021, now eBay has altered the amount of their “Final Value fees” they used to take 10 % off the top and
now they charge 13.25% in addition to that if you really want anything to sell on there you have to list it as “Free Shipping” because people will overlook your auction if you charge for shipping. So that comes out of the final value fee also, which is cool I think, because eBay extends to sellers a discount on shipping, I imagine because they purchase in advance so much shipping in advance, it is just cheaper and easier. Also, I do not have any money right now in my Bank account so I like them to take everything out of the money that the buyer pays and
just give me the change, so that way, I do not owe anyone anything for that transaction. Ebay also transfers the money electronically to my bank account. I removed all of my UM coverage from my auto policy and that dropped the bill that was $372.00 down to 278.18 and that was due on the 05/02/2024 and then I altered the due date on my auto policy to 05/07/2024 to give the funds from eBay a chance to arrive before I had to give it to progressive. I also put on ebay my East Pack everyday backpack which I loved and paid over $300.00 for in 2021. I charged shipping for that one. Because that backpack is big and it takes up a lot of space shipping was almost $42.00 for it. It sold for like $117.00 with shipping, eBay charges their final value fee on the entire amount of $117.00 (not just the actual $66.00 that it sold for. I saw yesterday that eBay sent me a payout of like 30 bux for that pack. I calculated $117.17 – 13.25% – $42.00 for shipping should come out to $50.47. Ebay has some other way that they do math so when that money actually arrives in my bank account if it is not what I calculated I will contact them to find out why the money I actually received is so low. I also put up there my yeti rambler 64 oz which I have had since I started driving for Uber and it never leaked a drop (I kept it in that backpack) and all I ever put in there was water from my R.O. filter system. That sold for $26.00 and after shipping and final value fees Ebay sent me $15.20 for that item. I also put up there my Viltrox adapter that allows me to clip on EF style lenses on my M50 camera. The buyer that won the auction had a 289 rating at 100%. When I saw that, I just figured he was going to pay me. so I did the math and that came out to $29.5 to me. I paid 156.00 for it in 2021. I sent him 4 messages over 3 days and he just did not respond to me. I contacted eBay about that and I told them the story, and they told me they like to wait 4 days before canceling the sale and there would be no repercussions to me in anyway. They told me I could cancel and relist it right then
with no repercussions to me. So I waited to hear from that person until this morning and I heard nothing again, so I relisted it and the canceled the original auction. Ebay has gone through several changes over the years. The lady told me that my account is now over 22 years old, I created it when I was in college in 2002. The way eBay is now, is VERY hard to deal with. They used to be owned with or by paypal and when something was sold on eBay the funds would always go through paypal and then Paypal would transfer the money to your bank account. It is not like that now, eBay says if you want to sell ANYTHING on their platform, then they want your bank account numbers, If you do not have a bank account then you can’t sell anything on eBay and that is the end of that story. They are very straight forward about that. Also, eBay wants to charge for EVERYTHING and they do NOT want to refund you at all. Their marketing is very good too. They tell you in advance that there is an associated fee, for example if you choose to use the “Buy it now” feature there is a fee to the seller for that in addition to the final value fee that they charge. But there is no fee for setting an offer limit that you will accept. If you make a mistake, too bad for you then you get to battle it out with them and they usually already have your money, and they do NOT like to refund anything pretty much, even though they are huge and make a lot of money, they don’t care about much else than earning money hand over fist. So I lower my progressive auto insurance bill and got it extended from the 2nd of the month to the 7th, I also lowered my mint mobile package from unlimited to just 5GB of data per month with no Hotspot making it $82.00 instead of the usual $130 something and I also sold my Yeti Rambler and relisted the viltrox adapter for my camera. So that covers me until the 25th when my canca bill is due. Also Adobe extended to me 3 months with no fees for their all apps plan which was very awesome I love Adobe and Sue Keating donated to me $25.00 dollars which also was awesome. I haven’t seen her physically since we worked together over 25 years ago. Which was really awesome, now I just need to get through today.