As someone who speaks English as a second language, “ruff” does not register as a bark sound to me at all.

Because Windows customization was too hard and weird. To install a custom theme, I had to browse DeviantArt for some god forsaken reason(???) and trust this random person’s theme, which could contain malware for all I knew! I just wanted to choose colors and change transparency!

Stupid default software: What’s up with Micro$oft Edge? Why do they push it so hard? Just let me set Firefox as the default browser for everything! I want to be able to uninstall things I don’t want on my system, and use whatever apps I want.

So, around 2022, I tried Linux Mint and fell in love with it. I’d heard Apple devices were pretty locked down so the thought of buying a Mac hadn’t crossed my mind (I could not afford one anyways).

I then went on to, over time, try other distros, such as: ArcoLinux (now discontinued), Debian, Artix, KDE Neon, Void, and nowadays I run NixOS on my desktop and Arch on my laptop. (I did try Fedora Sway for a few hours before installing Arch on my laptop though).

clearly deltarune trinkets

true neutral here, i don’t have desk space or enough money for a second monitor

semantic navigation (jump around the AST directly with simple keybindings).

just searched up abstract syntax tree in helix, and i learned about syntax aware motions. how had i never heard of them before? they look very useful! thanks for mentioning that

things i use:

• gitui . terminal UI for git (like lazygit)

• helix . modal text editor similar to vim, but with less configuration required

• eza . basically ls but with some more features

those corporate m*therfuckers… making me censor myself…

I can usually sleep at night, but if I didn’t use my phone I would probably draw or play the keyboard (with headphones connected) for a while, then I would stop and try to sleep again.

How is that possible? How does the ape fit in a room thinner than itself? This is beyond my comprehension.

First, environmental concerns. Is there any evidence that it takes more energy to quickly generate a meme image than to draw it on a computer? That seems highly unlikely. You would have to power a computer for hours to produce such a drawing by hand.

It doesn’t take hours to draw a meme image. Spending a few minutes using a meme template or drawing a quick meme will most certainly not use more energy than AI.

[…] but something being created unethically doesn’t magically make its use unethical.

Sounds like a philosophy problem to me. In my opinion, the use of something created unethically being unethical is a truth that we must accept, even if it’s hard to do so.

This is religious thinking, not rational thinking.

No, we just think differently.

Every meme image made by AI is a small blow against these companies. It costs them money but generates them no revenue. But because apparently AI is magically cursed with evil, any use of it must also be evil.

If nobody used AI image generation, these companies would not even exist, it would be the ultimate blow. So, logically, more people using their AI helps these companies long-term.

AI is created unethically, therefore choosing to use it while knowing how it is made and while knowing its environmental impacts is also unethical. You can choose to use AI, but you can’t deny that its use is unethical.

idk if this image is AI (i cannot tell), but AI image generators are, currently, unethical.

personally i don’t have a problem with the idea of AI image generation, I have a problem with companies taking artists’ images without them opting in to it, then attempting to “replace” artists with an algorithm that’s trained on stolen work. I also have a problem with the technology’s environmental impacts. i think this is a common sentiment.

edit: on further analysis, i’m around 70% sure this is AI-generated, due to the TVs looking the same while having a different art style, and due to the strange facial expression in the 2nd panel. also, in the 2nd panel, it would make more sense artistically for the character to be lying down while thinking that, showing that it can look the same on the outside.

Git

If it looks like free will and quacks like free will, then it probably is free will.

Yes

because you didnt take the king yet

the comic is highly exaggerated and not meant to be taken literally

this made me forgot how to pronounce “niche”

it’s like it made me expel all the langauge out of my brain temporarily

This also applies to digital art…

I’m drawing someone in a symmetrical, well balanced pose

flips canvas

I’m drawing someone falling over

Don’t remind me of this it makes me sad