Photoshop cs2 is free to download and probably works well on wine as its old as hell.

Edit: Correction. You used to o be able to download cs2 from adobe website. This is no longer the case.

GIMP has always been able to do what I needed more or less. Its got a learning curve and sometimes I still dont 100% how something works but for basic photo editing, meme making, and converting photos to different file types (why is .webp not universally supported yet?) Its pretty good.

When theres a problem doing something in GIMP it always felt like the issue was my own understanding of the toolset conbined with not-great documentation being given. I never felt like I encountered the limits of the program itself.

I’m sure if you are a professional graphics person who needs advanced tools theres things only PS can provide and its user interface is probably more friendly. But for me, the average joe schmo, GIMP gets the job done 95% of the time with little to no headache.

Yeah, I know better than to get involved in debating someone more interested in spitting out five paragraph essays trying to deconstruct and invalidate others views one by one, than bothering to double check if they’re still talking to the same person.

I believe you aren’t interested in exchanging ideas and different viewpoints. You want to win an argument and validate that your view is the right one. Sorry, im not that kind of person who enjoys arguing back and forth over the internet or in general. Look elsewhere for a debate opponent to sharpen your rhetoric on.

I wish you well in life whoever you are but there is no point in us talking. We will just have to see how the future goes in the next 10 years.

Congrats bizzle! I hope to grow my own someday

You’ll never get good at a new skill if youre too afraid of screwing up to even try or give up after one go. Dont expect perfection from yourself and do the best you can. Learn something from the process and do it slightly better next time.

Fortunately cooking is very forgiving. If you do one or two things slightly wrong just roll with it. Here is the guide I am using today for my butter. … also its text based counterpart If it goes well I’ll update.

If its your first time i recommend not using super nice flower just get some cheap shake that way you aren’t loosing much if the batch gets scuffed. After a few batches of cheap stuff you can take what you’ve learned and go for high quality flower.

The crock pot will be smelly do that part outside or in garage If you can. They have cheap propane ovens you can use outside for decarb too just need to get a oven thermometer and keep an eye on it.

A tool is a tool. It has no say in how it’s used. AI is no different than the computer software you use browse the internet or do other digital task.

When its used badly as an outlet for escapism or substitute for social connection it can lead to bad consequences for your personal life.

When it’s best used is as a tool to help reason through a tough task, or as a step in a creative process. As on demand assistance to aid the disabled. Or to support the neurodivergent and emotionally traumatized to open up to as a non judgemental conversational partner. Or help a super genius rubber duck their novel ideas and work through complex thought processes. It can improve peoples lives for the better if applied to the right use cases.

Its about how you choose to interact with it in your personal life, and how society, buisnesses and your governing bodies choose to use it in their own processes. And believe me, they will find ways to use it.

I think comparing llms to computers in 90s is accurate. Right now only nerds, professionals, and industry/business/military see their potential. As the tech gets figured out, utility improves, and llm desktops start getting sold as consumer grade appliances the attitude will change maybe?

It delivers on what it promises to do for many people who use LLMs. They can be used for coding assistance, Setting up automated customer support, tutoring, processing documents, structuring lots of complex information, a good generally accurate knowledge on many topics, acting as an editor for your writings, lots more too.

Its a rapidly advancing pioneer technology like computers were in the 90s so every 6 months to a year is a new breakthrough in over all intelligence or a new ability. Now the new llm models can process images or audio as well as text.

The problem for openAI is they have serious competitors who will absolutely show up to eat their lunch if they sink as a company. Facebook/Meta with their llama models, Mistral AI with all their models, Alibaba with Qwen. Some other good smaller competiiton too like the openhermes team. All of these big tech companies have open sourced some models so you can tinker and finetune them at home while openai remains closed sourced which is ironic for the company name… Most of these ai companies offer their cloud access to models at very competitive pricing especially mistral.

The people who say AI is a trendy useless fad don’t know what they are talking about or are upset at AI. I am a part of the local llm community and have been playing around with open models for months pushing my computers hardware to its limits. Its very cool seeing just how smart they really are, what a computer that simulates human thought processes and knows a little bit of everything can actually do to help me in daily life.

Terrence Tao superstar genius mathematician describes the newest high end model from openAI as improving from a “incompentent graduate” to a “mediocre graduate” which essentially means AI are now generally smarter than the average person in many regards.

This month several comptetor llm models released which while being much smaller in size compared to openai o-1 somehow beat or equaled that big openai model in many benchmarks.

Neural networks are here and they are only going to get better. Were in for a wild ride.

Have you tried a dynavap with induction heater for concentrates? The inspire wand induction Heatr comes with its own cups and bangers but dynavap is better in it

“Weed lab”! You make the procedure of baking a ground up plant in the oven for 30 minutes then putting it in a crock pot with coconut oil/butter sound like a Breaking Bad meth cooking operation. Jesse, we need to cook some brownies :)

I respect that processing hemp flower at home isnt your thing. WNC CBD has always been top tier with its thca flower and the edibles from them will almozt certainly kick ass. They know what they’re doing.

I suggested homemade edibles or tinctures as an economic and effective option. Usually edible users look to pot for frequent pain relief or stress medicine. Buying premade stuff thats actually effective at helping gets pricey quick for medical users.

Here in USA you can buy legal thca or cbd hemp flower shake right from wholesalers online dirt cheap. Moreover there are specific cooking appliances like the magic butter maker and nova fx too which automates the whole process.

In case you give it a second thought, the pot smell released during the oven baking process can be mitigated by sealing the flower in a mason jar while cooking in the oven. The jar can easily withstand the 240f temp you decarb the herb at. This also helps recapture active terpenes and cannabanoids that vaporize at low temps.

Good luck, hope you find some awesome stuff.

Learn to make your own edibles the ones from dispensaries or online are weak and overpriced. Can do capsules, make butter, make alcohol tincture, lots of options. Just find a good supplier of shake.

Its not just AI code but AI stuff in general.

It boils down to lemmy having a disproportionate amount of leftist liberal arts college student types. Thats just the reality of this platform.

Those types tend to see AI as a threat to their creative independent business. As well as feeling slighted that their data may have been used to train a model.

Its understandable why lots of people denounce AI out of fear, spite, or ignorance. Its hard to remain fair and open to new technology when its threatening your livelihood and its early foundations may have scraped your data non-consentually for training.

So you’ll see AI hate circle jerk post every couple days from angry people who want to poison models and cheer for the idea that its just trendy nonesense. Dont debate them. Dont argue. Just let them vent and move on with your day.

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https://www.etsy.com/listing/1537081700/arizer-air-max-stand?ref=share_v4_lx

The stand works perfectly and at great price. I dont think the seller did different colors when I got it so thats cool too.

Heck yeah! The air max is a great device and that’s a lovely mini bong you got. I still use it for terp chasing high grade flower and lower grade mixed cbd flower with lavender.

Thats a nice coffee mug too :)

You got this! Technique can be difficult to get down for any heating method or really anything with skill involved. It boils down to doing it 10 times, 50 times, 100 times, 1000 times and learning the timing a little bit better each cycle.

I love the wand. By the first month with dynavap I knew I wasn’t a torch person. I wasn’t a fan of needing to spin the dynavap constantly for even heating or replacing butane constantly.

Electric heating is very convinent, even, and I can hit on the DV as its actively heating while feathing power on and off. No more refilling butane just charge it like a phone. The Auto sensing feature is nice so you ca take DV out and in without it turning off. USBC charging (not PD though). If it broke I would get another one (might wait for a sale though, dynavap puts it on sale for 90$ every few months) its that good.

Only complaint is that the batteries it came with are cheap no name brands with a plastic skin which makes taking the back off a pain in the ass. If I ever save up for spare batteries I’ll get two sets of good ones and put the no names in storage. Also temp settings is a glorified timer.

I feel exact same way as you was kind of fustrated there wasn’t any good economical prebuilt IH. So I started off with a 10$ induction heater board off amazon and wired it up myself.

Fortunately the coil and wires just screws in no soldering required. If you are interested in details on how to power and how well it works it let me know don’t want to hit you with unsolicited technobabble on a diy thing.

For other IH option I think there’s the dynacup for 50-60$

If you become a real vaping nerd and want a completely different way to heat your Dyna thats neither torch nor induction heaters ive heard that eds woodscents are absolutely phenomenonal. Pricy sure but I think I would buy one of those over the ballvapes you hear people talk about.

Good on you for sharing th B! Thats a beautiful obsidiuM(I think!) Hope you have a great time breaking it in :)

Dynavap H2 (its specifically h2 glass stem and M+ stainless steel tip) and ‘the wand’ induction heater. Thanks for taking interest :)

Thanks for sharing, knew him from some numberphile vids cool to see they have a mastadon account. Good to know that LLMs are crawling from “incompentent graduate” to “mediocre graduate”. Which basically means its already smarter than most people for many kinds of reasoning task.

I’m not a big fan of the way the guy speaks though, as is common for super intelligent academic types they have to use overly complicated wording to formally describe even the most basic opinions while mixing in hints of inflated ego and intellectual superiority. He should start experimenting with having o-1 as his editor and summarize his toots.

Although I dont have tinymight I have seen lots of great things about it on internet forms. If 350$ is in ops price range for a portable vape it seems like a solid convection option. If op likes that square condensed form factor for easy pocketing but needs something more budget friendly arizer Argo is 150$. I can’t say on its performance though as I dont own one but arizer is an overall solid company in my experience.

Dynavap + induction heater with removable batteries and usbc charging like the wand. Dynavap has no batteries and you can use it with a butane torch. Some people like the ritual of a torch spinning it and stuff. Induction heater lets you heat it with electric energy. The wand IH has usbc charging (not PD) and removable batteries. Though the one I got has cheap batteries with plastic sleeves that make removing back cover hard. Pros+

can do hash/concentrate One hit extraction techniques as well as terp chasing techniques

Comes in stainless steel, titanium, wood, and glass variants.

Big bowl hyperdyn has dosing capsules.

Cons+

USA based but they do have EU store. Expect shipping to take time.

The parts are overpriced IMO when not on sale. Its good quality stuff though.

Induction heaters cost a lot unless you diy it yourself.

Not the easiest device to maintain and clean. Has orings, removable screens, and builds up reclaim inside fast. Get the B to see if its for you, good price. some people like he dv experience some dont. I like it a lot I’m a big fan of H2 dynavap and the wand IH. If you dont mind going China knockoff you can try to find an EU store that sells vaphits.

Arizer air max was my first electronic portable and I can recommend it. Its a good build quality. Its usbc (though not PD so slow charging)The stem pod system is easy to maintain and plenty of after market stems. Has removable battery and held up for over a year now. Its a good terp chasing device. However its not as powerful as a dynavap. Its a slower extraction that produces a steady light vapor for some time. Not a one hit extraction capable device. Also works better with a preheat. It can’t really do hash/concentrates. Great battery life though.

Arizer extremeq. I’m not sure just how portable you need, if you want an in the pocket vape its not really what youre looking for. But if you only want an around the house easily movable thing that doesnt Need a cord well.

The arizer EQ is a desktop vape very powerful and able to do one hit extractions and concentrates. It has an excellent build quality mines over a decade old and still kicking.

Even though its marketed as a desktop vape and comes with a wall outlet cord, it is a 19-20v 3.25A DC device like a laptop, that can be powered with a portable battery pack like a car jumper pack with usbc-pd 65w. Im leaving out some details on how to exactly wire it up it for brevity but if thats something you are interested in let me know.

Pros: more powerful than any standard battery portable vape. Goes up to 500f

Gold standard build quality. Mine has lasted a decade.

More versatile. has a blower fan for filling bags or if you have weak lungs and need help drawing.

Comes with large chamber hookah hose design. Some like the hose.

Cons: Easy to pick up and move around but not pocket portable. More of an around the house vape. About as portable as a small bong.

Not specifically made to be battery powered with usbc-pd 65w but can be due to having the same power draw demands as a laptop. You need to buy some special cables and a compatable battery pack.

The default glass chamber and hookah hose aren’t that great IMO. In order to truly complete the EQ you need a smaller chamber closer to the ceramic heater core and direct draw. In other words, you need after market glass from DDave to get the most out of your eq experience. I’m a big fan of his one hit extraction kit with omega wand. It essentially uses removable. basket screens as dosing capsules

I am glad to have helped you out! @angrystego I hope you enjoy searxng and it bcomes a useful tool in your life. Paulgo is an excellent first instance choice. It was my daily driver when I wrote up that guide and seems to still hold up well today.

Now I use search.inetol.net and can recommend that as a good alternative in case paulgo isnt quite what you’re looking for or has too many timeout api errors. As always its a good idea to visit searx.space and try out some of the top instances with highest response time.