Thanks for the recommendation! I’ll check those out. Just as a personal nitpick I’ll look for one of their models with USB-C as opposed to micro-USB to be a bit more future proof.

As a double check (or check before buying) you can search for your new GPU on https://linux-hardware.org/ to see if other users have it working without any issues. The hardware probe is also a handy tool to share your PC’s specs if you should ever need to do so!

And then you have a trained model that requires vast amounts of energy per request, right? It doesn’t stop at training.

You need obscene amounts GPU power to run the ‘better’ models within reasonable response times.

In comparison, I could game on my modest rig just fine, but I can’t run a 22B model locally in any useful capacity while programming.

Sure, you could argue gaming is a waste of energy, but that doesn’t mean we can’t argue that it shouldn’t have to cost boiling a shitload of eggs to ask AI how long a single one should. Or each time I start typing a line of code for that matter.

Well, from what I understand for admins you have some config keys being PF_OPTIMIZE_IMAGES to toggle the entire optimization pipeline (or accept supported formats as is) and the IMAGE_QUALITY percentage as an integer to tweak the lossy compression for formats that support it.

The image resize to 1080 is even hardcoded in the optimizrtion pipeline. I think I saw a toggle for it on the PHP side, but it seems they only expose the toggling of storage optimization as a whole for admins. The 1080 is currently not exposed as a parameter to set, sadly.

As a creator, I was interested in the maximum possible quality to retain. As PNG is often supported and by design only features lossless compression at best while remaining well under 15MB for a file with common image aspect ratio’s, that was the winner in that regard. My uncropped 24MP images then become 3MB-ish.

Other formats tend to be way smaller in filesize due to lossy compression being so effective and most images I checked on Pixelfed are resized&optimized JPEGs well under 1MB (around 600-800KB). That is probably the file format and size you’ll encounter most.

My own filesize comparisons were for RAW exports using Darktable for different file formats, qualities and resolutions. The PHP image pipeline used by Pixelfed will probably yield comparable results for the same image.

If I were to advocate new settings, that would be cranking up the resolution to more modern standards (like fitting a 4k monitor) and converting to WebP at some 85% (or sticking with 80%).

It’s difficult, though, as that may introduce double-lossy pipelines when converting other lossy formats. That’s why I looked into resolution settings first. If you upload an image that is too large, it currently decodes your (maybe lossy) image, resizes that (lossy, probably?) and re-encodes that using the set lossy quality if applicable.

Thus, first order of business: at least publish ideal image sizes.

Second, better quality control. Might involve settings per file format or setting a unified output file format.

Cool! I’m glad more people are picking up Darktable! Ever since I switched the ‘image processing workflow’ to ‘scene-referred (sigmoid)’ my editing productivity skyrocketed. It’s way more intuitive than the filmic RGB module IMHO. How are you finding Darktable?

Good shower thought

Pretty sight for sure, but the editing is overdone IMHO

I guess if the need for more badges arrives you could always change the design or offer an option then.

Semantically it makes sense to put it after the community (ie crossposted from somewhere else) or after user who did it. I’d rather have this information in some shape or form in that location than that it’s shaped like a badge.

Detached

Naturally we need to know which suggestions “won” ASAP

With Railway it’s the typical anticipation of strategy games that gets you. Just one more expansion of your network, one more resource to connect to a town, one more logistical puzzle to solve. It’s way more intricate (in a good way) than just managing the budget and I’ve sunk hours and hours into some of those missions to figure them out.

Railway Empire 2 hard to put down once you get going.

Wasteland 3 is awesome and akin to DOS2 and BG3!

Hmmm, never had to sudo ... or work with SELinux I see. I highly prefer that to other policy/admin rights solutions, though, but still.

Can highly recommend Summit! Perfect for Lemmy and it has recently gone open-source. !summit@lemmy.world

Wololooo

Hmm, LibreOffice may not be the prettiest, but it works. For my own documents and presentations I use Typst nowadays. That’s a blazing fast modern typesetting alternative to LaTeX. That being said, I can’t stand WYSIWIG stuff but that might not be everybody’s cup of tea.

I mostly run into stubborn manufacturers like Roland that only release their musical instrument companion apps for Mac/Win and leave Linux Digital Audio Workstations hanging.

!lemmySilver

!lemmySilver

Just trying this out, don’t mind me

Now that’s a strapon if I’ve ever seen one. And it might actually get off if it goes flacid halfway 🤔

Oof, so much nostalgia!

Lost the game!