IanM32

Worried that AI is going to overthrow humankind? Cripple it by making it run off a mechanical hard drive!

Oh God, if anything they're even worse. Same page, friend.

Housing costs are such a racket.

I'm inclined to agree. Lower bandwidth might make some tasks take longer, but you can still accomplish them if you're patient. When you're out of RAM, you're out of RAM.

I feel like part of the insult is also not just with this particular company, but with the industry in general. I worked on the sound side as both production and post, and the amounts that places are willing to pay these engineer roles always seems to be insulting.

But either you take it or leave it, because there's someone else out there who is desperate enough to work for what they offer. Maybe this isn't the same across the pond, but it's sure been my experience here.

You can play entirely solo if you want, and even turn off networking if you don't want to see other people at all. Mostly you just see other players running around doing their own thing. There's no competitive or mandatory co-op things that I've seen.

Image removal and AI tools have an overlap, for sure. RemBG is pretty effective, which runs in many of the environments with Stable Diffusion. Bria is a recent improved model for RemBG, which I've had some good success with. It's not perfect, but it cuts out a lot of the work.

Krita is A+.

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Crazy Train?

I feel like the pandemic showed the cracks in the status quo, and ever since things have gone back to "normal," employers are trying to nudge things back to the pre-pandemic status quo. People have seen other possibilities through those cracks, and business has no idea how to deal with it.