dimaor

personally, having a list of books helps me keep up the reading habit. usually I have months of reading, followed by months of not touching a book.

having a list in notion reminds me to continue.

in addition having a list of books I want to read (ghost library in japanese?) reminds of the things I don't know yet or haven't read which in turn helps keeping the reading habits.

_They don't understand that we never agreed to any of their TOS/policies, they don't understand that we don't use their API._ is both funny and hardcore

I guess I over exaggerated due to fast typing. it does not _make me sick_ I just don't understand the reason.

a bit of context: I've been producing music for ~15 years now, purely as a hobby (due to incompetence on my part to up a level).

I have friends which I helped and collaborated with for years on and off, and some of them seem to me like they are stuck in a loop of wanting to succeed without actually expressing themselves. they seem to be stuck in the mode of _this is how it's done, and this is what I want and anything else is incorrect_.

even when there are many other options to make it sound better and make it richer.

so correction: what makes me _sick_ is the fact that some people try to copy other successful musicians without even considering doing something original, purely because they want the same level of _fame and success_.

as a hobby music producer, this thing make me sick :)

actually I think this problem started earlier, with many _musicians_ using pre made beats and auto tune. right now it just takes it to a whole other level.

music should be a tool of expression, not one to gain fame & social acceptance

I think the point is missed here. the post was made by an artist who really likes his craft, and now with the generated models coming to the picture he feels like his work diminished to simply polishing after them.

I am a coder who really likes coding, getting results quicker will not make me happier.

it is different in a work environment, but still, a lot of people simply enjoy the path and not only the outcome.

off topic, but the title reminds me of "meta VR now has legs!". :)

I'm not sure if PopOs uses flathub by default for its PopShop, but I've always had some issues with it and they prevented me from using it and directly using flatpak CLI.

- I don't know how to see running logs by default (if it's possible even) and it's a must when you have slow internet - sometimes it just hangs and I need to kill (probably leaving residue along the way)

hopefully my issues are my own OR it will get resolved as well.

other than that flatpak is amazing.

I recently started to improve my cooking skills as well, and here are my favorite YT channels:

I love them because not only they teach you skills and give amazing recipes. Some of them also get into the chemical / health science which explains why things are happening as they do.

- Adam Ragusea

- Chef Billy Parisi

- Chef Jean Pierre

- Ethan Chlebowski

- Sip and Feast

- J. Kenji Lopez

- Pro Home Cooks

P.S. Cooking really helps me to deal with work related stress and burnout. Hopefully I'll make it my second profession some time soon.

The team page made me laugh out loud :D

How is this free? Is it possible to download the checkpoints?

I'm asking because I'm running SD locally but my GPU is not good enough to train new checkpoints and while I get the time to work on improve I wanted to use this API in order to generate some models for an illustration book I am working on.

_have way more having fun writing.._ - pretty much seems to be the culprit here.