Some instances already implement this, but a hard anti-AI stance or at least requiring labeling of AI-generated content?

Yeah, it was stupid and I immediately deleted it.

‘Cheese and Chocola’s Mud Playday’

And this is while AMD is trying to abandon support for it and RDNA1 in Windows.

I didn’t know Jesus got off on nerds.

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Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (the book which Blade Runner is an adaptation of) would be a good one.

The Lord of the Rings book trilogy would be optional due to just how long those books are, but they’re super detailed if you’re into high fantasy, while The Hobbit would be easier for younger readers to ingest (The Hobbit was aimed at kids, after all).

Thanks! And yeah, I got a Mastodon, Pixelfed, and most recently Friendica.

And yeah, I’ve been going for a kid-like art style for a while now, which wax crayons, chalk, and oil pastels best facilitate, but paints and watercolor crayons are good for as well, as shown in the following for watercolors+watercolor crayons, acrylics, and wax crayons respectively

Also, chalk has always been one of my fave art media ever since I actually got into art way back in high school, because it’s just fun, chalk is basically like dry fingerpaints, or at least it is with how I use it by using my fingers instead of a blending stump to blend with (both because I get better results with fingers instead of a blending stump, and also because of the aforementioned fun factor), but oil pastels are kind of a hybrid between chalk and wax crayons; they’re easily blended by smudging, and thus are as fun to play with as chalk is, but aren’t as messy as chalk is.

Wax crayons are also a medium I recently got into after learning how to use them without linework by applying the layer blending/shading technique picked up with chalk and oil pastels, except obviously without smudging because wax crayons are a non-smudging medium, and porting them over to that medium.

It’s not the most disturbing part, as of most recently his subjugation of Venezuela, which suddenly made his annexation threats against Canada, Mexico, and Greenland more serious, is by far the most disturbing part as it proves he’s fully willing to do good on those threats.

The active attacks on free expression and the defunding of public media are also some of his worst actions.

Turning the Rose Garden into a replica of Hitler’s rallying grounds still speaks volumes as to his intentions though, like I can actually imagine him standing at a podium with Nazi flags flying behind him spouting the most vile rhetoric imaginable as his most fervent supporters watch him and cheer him on.

Tearing down the Rose Garden and turning it into a replica of Hitler’s rallying grounds has gotta be a nomination at least.

No, but he’s done far worse than that.

990FX actually had more lanes available than most modern platforms, specifically 990FX had 32 lanes to play with, although they were all PCIe 2 as AM3+ on the whole was a PCIe 2 platform.

Wasn’t the 5500 XT competitive in performance with the RX 580/590 last time I thought, though? And it has better API support.

Keeping that in mind, the 5500 XT is the highest I would go in terms of a GPU for an FX build. Let’s just ignore the 6500 XT because it would get slaughtered by its four lanes of PCIe bandwidth on a PCIe 2 platform like AM3+.

That FX is still bare-minimum usable as a CPU, however I should warn that you’ll be using a lot of power at full send, as Bulldozer was never known for its power efficiency.

Just pair something like an RX 580/590 or RX 5500 XT, or your aforementioned GTX 970 to it if you want decent graphics on it, though.

And in terms of long-term support, the Polaris and RDNA1 card I mentioned is still actively supported with a modern driver stack via Mesa in Linux where your GTX 970 is officially cut off for driver support now as support ended with version 580, and open drivers were sabotaged for Nvidia on 900-series and newer due to locked-down VBIOS, so reclocking is a nogo, where 700-series and older fully supports open drivers as Kepler and Maxwell 1 were the last Nvidia GPUs to have an unlocked VBIOS.

Also, I would upgrade the PSU to something a little beefier that’s at least Gold-rated, but that’s just my opinion on that.

Given I’m actively avoiding modern multiplayer games for more reasons than just the fact that they pretty much all have rootkit DRM (I know kernel-level anticheats have a different target than traditional DRM, but they’re functionally DRM so they count as DRM to me), and one of the few games I have left which were unplayably broken on Proton work now (Civ3, still has audio issues that to my knowledge can’t be corrected for non-destructively, but the black-map issue is now fixed, at least on my end using proton-cachyos), I have no plans on running Windows again any time soon, not even in a VM.

This is why the entire Fediverse exists, not just Lemmy.

Drawing or painting would be a good place to start, as well as being really fun on its own.

Sculpture too, although some of the messier sculptural media like plaster or paper mache, or even pottery/ceramics, might set off sensory issues for some people, so that’s something to be aware of.

Collage/scrapbooking would be really simple to get into as well as you’re just playing with cut or ripped paper at that point.

I’m on peertube.wtf, but some other good instances include MakerTube if you’re art or craft-focused, for example.

Any kind of art or crafts, although if you have sensory issues, you may not like some of the messier media, eg. like any sort of paints, or chalk or charcoal.

I for the longest time as a kid had issues with getting anything goopy on me, for example, although I have since learned to manage that and now any water-based paints are really fun for me to play with and are one of my fave art media, my other faves being crayons, chalk, and oil pastels, but sensory issues with certain materials are something to be aware of, whether they’re managed or not.

Some people may have sensory issues with fumes from solvents used with oil paints as well, for example.

It’s been fine aside from being completely dead.

A Reddit alternative based on ATproto. Basically, it’s to Lemmy, what Bsky or Blacksky is to Mastodon.

No, but I’d think Nooki could’ve funneled in some of Bsky’s userbase since it runs on the same protocol as Bsky, and gotten livelier than it appears to be, like Lemmy is actually active but its competitor over on ATproto, Nooki, is nothing but crickets.