It's the actions that Reddit took that were the problem, not admins taking action in general. But as long as there are alternatives from federation I don't see an issue with admins doing something about this, whether or not I agree with it.

Honestly I like this better

Well it's possible to read Shakespeare without translating - I don't know how much pronunciation has changed over time but modern English speakers could probably communicate (with varying degrees of difficulty) with any English speaker from US history that could read and write, probably even back to the first colonies. So around 500 years, give or take. I'm curious what it's like for other countries.

Hah, are we the same person? My family was poor too. I'm a bit younger (born 2000) but I grew up using a VCR, and my first console was a GBA where I played a lot of SNES ports. The internet has existed my entire life, but I still remember before smartphones were a thing. It's a really weird place to be socially. I don't connect with Gen Z culture in almost any way, but I'm also distinctly not a millennial.

Interestingly my older sister (1998) who has zero interest in anything tech is actually pretty tech savvy for how little she cares about it. I think she crossed that threshold of learning how to learn, where even when she comes across something she doesn't understand she knows how to approach the problem.

Wow, this is only barely distinguishable as AI! Any workflow info?

I thought it was good, though I'm not big into family movies so I was a bit bored. Still, it had great animation and design, great voice acting, and a lot of fun moments. I really liked the aesthetic too, super unique.

Adobe Firefly (AI art generator that's trained only off images Adobe owns) is going to be big soon. It's a shame that the concerns over AI and copyright lead to putting more money in the pockets of whichever companies gobble up the most stock images.

You're underrepresenting the complications of NixOS and overrepresenting the complications of Arch. For example, to install Steam I would run sudo pacman -Syu steam. On a typical Arch setup that's all that's needed.

Another example is how to install Steam. In Arch, the wiki must tell you all the manual steps required to enable multilib, install the steam package, install 32bit dependencies, yada yada.

And that's why the Arch wiki is so great - it has details and links about everything that goes into making something work. If you want to learn more or if something goes wrong it's all right there.

But yes, I think you hit the nail on the head at the end there - hackability is Arch's strength, everything is exposed and flexible to tinkering. It's easy to make almost anything work, and easy to learn how it works. That's very different from NixOS's core philosophy of stability and reproducibility.

There are inherent pros and cons to both approaches - it really comes down to a mix of personal preference and using the right tool for the right job. They're apples and oranges, and the article framing NixOS as a superior successor to Arch is as silly as the reverse would be.

I've recently started using Rats Search, basically a p2p torrent indexer. I don't want to bother with private trackers so this is pretty much perfect.

This is the way. The really top-tier AI art is almost guaranteed to use this, most online tools and other frontends just don't have the features. Also, here is a link to a fork of that with an improved UI (no other changes).

Fun fact, it can be run on as low as 2gb vram! It works out of the box with the --lowvram parameter, and with some extra fiddling with extensions you can even generate high resolution stuff.

There's something kind of refreshing about having to go out of your way to find content, rather than going out of your way to avoid it. It reminds me of the earlier days of the web with random geocities sites, forums, webrings.

But yeah even considering that it still feels kinda barren around here. I don't think Lemmy was used much at all before the Reddit exodus - it's still pretty new and heavy in development, and I don't think was even really usable until recently. As many issues as it's had supporting the massive influx of users, it's lucky that it's usable enough as a Reddit alternative with all the stuff going down over there.

Anyway, welcome aboard! Hopefully we can get things going soon enough :) I've only been around a few days but everything I've posted has gotten more attention and thoughtful responses than they would elsewhere, even with how small the communities are - I think once people see how much more rewarding it is to contribute here activity will start to snowball.