Don’t game much but I’ll pitch in with a different suggestion: Debian minimal install or Arch, same as for every use case.

I prefer apt based distros so I always go Debian, but with flatpak it’s basically irrelevant afaik.

I’ve had no trouble mimicking my deck’s setup and game compatibility on basically any distro, gamescope, proton etc.

Debian isn’t bleeding edge but it also just werks and with flatpak I haven’t encountered any issues getting new stuff essentially totally segregated from the main OS.

My brain thought this was loss at first

Nah it’s cool DW, no offence taken.

We should support AI only as research in the public sector that is open sourced, leveling the playing field, rather than Corpos amassing evermore power.

We can’t make AI go away, and I’m sorry to those who feel it cheapens their life’s work or passion, but we can make it belong to the people. It was after all public sector research that got us to this point in the first place.

Also, fuck Sam Altman and Elon Husk and all the corpos and grifters in charge of them.

I only smoke consume nicotine, water and food, cheers. I’ve heard of the trope but have never seen a contemporary example IRL or even not IRL if I think about it.

See my response to a similar question here: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/15822412

I understand it’s “common knowledge” but I’ve been questioning it for a while.

I’m happy to be proven wrong if you’d be willing, but so far I’ve not been and as such I’m not sure this trope has any resemblance to reality in the modern day.

It’s a shame, it was a good app but if you haven’t bailed already now is as good a time as any.

Not you goofball, the mod

I’m not outsourcing anything, why would you assume so? Do you?

I don’t really use LLMs at all and I haven’t used SD in ages. Are you trying to say art is stupid and pointless?

More projection. Why even respond if you have no counterpoint? If I’m such a nitwit gippity user, it shouldn’t be hard for you to enlighten us all, should it?

I’m not AI expert, but I understand the basic principles behind diffusers and I’ve written a few tiny image classifiers in python for fun before. Surely an expert like yourself can do better?

Well she ain’t too smart then cuz now she has to pay rent so I’d say we’re even

Fucking hell that’s awful

Glad you got it in time. We need a proper medical ADHD community where we can discuss this stuff without power tripping bastards on the ADHD community.

You do realise a barrier to entry doesn’t mean that something is literally impossible for everyone, but that it’s an obstacle for some?

It’s disingenuous comparing art someone would want to look at produced today to literal caveman drawings.

And yes artists are absolutely rich elites, the often very literal top 10%, feel free to look at my other comments ITT for why I’ve found this to be the case.

bc you think you need chat gpt to think for you, or you

Woah woah turn down the projection man. I don’t use gippity lol.

or you just have no idea at all what “AI” is

I think I do, but feel free to enlighten me.

need to do a lot of research on how harmful it is

Are you a “do your own research” type, or are you going to state your case?

Comparing CGI render farms to AI servers?

Yes.

Actually I only advocate for locally run FOSS AI models because I’m anti-commercial-AI and broadly anti-capitalist as a whole.

So do tell me, how does my one gayming RTX GPU that can just about accommodate an LLM or SDXL compare to a render farm for Netflix/Hollywood slop powered by coal in third world country sweatshops they outsource to?

Comparing human inspiration and paid for asset packs to a computer rearranging existing, stolen art?

“Our glorious inspiration” “Their stolen art”

You don’t come off as mentally stable my friend, maybe log off and calm down for a bit?

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I’m glad someone made it but it’s just not a great value proposition.

Even if it shipped to the EU where OLED devices have usually been more popular (less iPhones), it’s a crappy 16:9 shorter screen, it looks like a bit of a pain to install and it’s really expensive.

It’s kinda wild to me there ever was an LCD steam deck to begin with, even my last handheld - the Vita - had OLED, but I guess they wanted it to be as cheap as possible which is admirable.

This is definitely not a “these days” thing, it’s been around for a while, it’s even less explicable now though that flatpak, snap, npm, conda, venvs and docker exist.

We simply lose things that bring people joy and for what?

Why would you campaign to strictly make people less happy?

I disagree completely. Idk but creating brings millions of people joy, anything that democratizes it more accessible is a good thing. AI has absolutely brought many more people joy.

A world where a technology exists that can query the sum of human knowledge and skill to translate ideas into form but is gatekept because few people like feeling special is a horrifying dystopia and I can’t imagine how someone could be so fucking evil as to really wish for that.

Like really, I want to keep giving y’all benefit of the doubt that you simply don’t consider a perspective outside your own, but you don’t make it easy.

This technology makes some of those enjoyable jobs

Technology is what made those jobs enjoyable and accessible to those who do them now in the first place.

Nobody is forcing you to use AI or any technology, you can still farm goats and use them to make drums before you lay out a beat, people will probably be pretty impressed if you did that.

Why would you want to remove the jobs people enjoy and are passionate about just for the sake of it?

If they are passionate about their craft for the sake of it they will keep doing it, if they are doing it as a job then like with any other job market when new technologies or trends arrive they will have to adapt.

To put it in perspective with an analogy: It’s an absurd notion for instance that new programming languages should be banned not for their quality but simply because not every developer will learn them, and it’s an absurd notion that someone who loves programming in C for the sake of it cannot do so just because Java exists.

Having DAWs did not make it illegal to mess around with an old rompler and a step sequencer for the sake of it, nor did orchestra plugins eliminate violins, but market demands orchestral music done quicker, you either do this or don’t.

If it wasn’t for the horrible system we live in

This would be the case for every system that still has some market demands, even something like anarcho-communist cooperative based market economics would favour technological advancement and efficiency every time and some jobs would simply not be in demand any more.

There is simply no economic system that makes any sense where someone would need to hire an orchestra for every sting on kitchen nightmares instead of using a VST or sample library or now in the not too distant future - generating one.

I fully agree that we need to change the system to ensure when these technological advancements happen that people don’t end up on the street.

However, I’m sure most would agree that even though it was not fair to e.g. human computers, the move to electronic calculators is a net positive for society.

Similarly endlessly distributable digital copies of books etc. democratized media to a massive degree even if it put libraries at risk.

but it does not make life easier,

It definitely does make life easier for many artists, for instance you can upscale old media or restore media where the original was lost to time, game devs can use AI-generated assets for background stuff like adding nigh-infinite variety to textures that would be impractical for an indie dev to do or a sole dev can compensate for whatever skills they lack manually etc.

it does not get us better things

I think with regards to quality it’s completely value neutral, I’ve seen plenty of dogshit AI art, but also some really good unique stuff. I think it just follows Sturgeon’s Law as everything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law

My experience is simply the polar opposite of yours.

Most artists I’ve known are extremely upper class, at the very least they come from very privileged backgrounds, and usually had the safety net required to take gap years for unpaid apprenticeships or to start bands, have capital to invest and can afford to lose it, can live with parents and rely on them financially waiting for publishing deals or comissions money or adrev etc etc.

Come to think of it IRL I actually have never heard of a “working class” artist, other than in the strict Marxist sense in that they’re not an owner class.

Even if they work a low paying or shitty job part-time they almost always have very high QoL due to those privileged backgrounds. One guy who went into the arts I know has a day job that paid half mine out of the gate, but he had way more disposable cash because his parents paid his rent and bills.

A friend of mine who’s in theatre just bailed out after school, took a gap year, did an unpaid apprenticeship and later got a day job as a theatre tech, now swimming in cash from being a manager and her published plays, she’s the second richest person I know.

I’m not saying that arts are just a passtime of the rich mind you, (though I do think the rabidly anti-ai types have a “fuck you got mine” streak) I think it’s survivorship bias ultimately, those who can be full-time or even decently part-time professional artists in some capacity are the ones who have privilege.

Meanwhile 99.9% of “Techbros” aka people in CompSci at uni were the hustler-grindset type working folks trying to escape poverty or otherwise move up the ladder, either real career chasers who are all about networking or grifters/scammers/shady characters you’d see betting on horses and hanging out in money laundering candy/barbershops.

They were in it for the money alone because they heard the money is good and that’s because they def needed the money.

Most people had at least 1 job just to afford rent, many had 2 (uni is pretty much free here in the UK).

The only rich people were drug dealers in blacked out BMWs and Chinese immigrants with Rolexes and extremely strong spice vapes and no knowledge of English.

The remaining 0.1% were genuinely gifted kids who pursued PhDs or less talented nerds (me) and they were all usually not super well off locals or they were immigrants from shithole countries of families who could afford to send their kids overseas and not much else, where they prolly didn’t need to work semester time but they couldn’t fuck around either (also me).

Idk about Silicon Valley, I’m not American nor have been, from what I’ve seen people who talk about the “bay area” on Mastodon are either insufferable cunts or some kind of weird internet people/hacking savants/furries though.

Oh dear. Well thanks!

Idk I honestly don’t even know which iPhone is latest anymore, my gut says 8 but I know that there’s also iPhone X which was somehow the first one with an OLED screen and why I remember it.

Last one I owned was the 5S, great phone, but their branding and looks haven’t appealed to me since then.