It’s not a total vacuum in there, despite the name.

There’s a (very loud) motor that pumps air out of the machine at an incredible rate, and air rushes in to fill that space, mostly through the only available opening (the hose). The rushing air carries debris with it.

So there’s always some air inside the canister (or whatever collection container), which allows sound to propagate through. My guess is that it would be deafening in there.

Most places that have HR like this work their employees too hard for them to have time to use a ping pong table anyway, so it’s really just a hollow gesture.

Exactly. At first glance it can spit out some really impressive stuff, but turning that content into a coherent piece of artwork still takes imagination and skill.

I can’t draw very well, but I’ve gotten good at compositing and image manipulation over the years. SD is amazing, but it doesn’t mean that I don’t spend hours and hours piecing together an image to be the way I wanted it.

The terminology is sticking around longer than the format, too! Love me some (webm/H265) gifs.

Stable Diffusion loves VRAM. The larger and more complex the images you’re trying to produce, the more it’ll eat.

My line of thinking is that if you have a slower GPU it’ll generate slower, sure, but if you run out of VRAM it’ll straight up fail and shout at you.

I’m not an expert in this field though, so grain of salt, YMMV, all that.

It makes the X go faster, everyone knows that.

I feel like that will even itself out in time. With a huge influx of Redditors, comparing the services is going to be a hot topic for awhile. The communities need to settle and the people who will stay will stay. Over time, it’ll be less self-referential and more original content I think.

I run it locally. I prefer having the most control I can over the install, what extensions I want to use, etc.

The most important thing to run it in my opinion is VRAM. The more the better, as much as you can get.

I use Krita almost exclusively, but gimp is a lot more usable with photogimp.

Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.

A long time.

I don’t honestly know the answer, but personally I would do it myself just to be sure.

At the moment, I’m guessing gif support depends on the individual client app, probably? On Connect it shows up as a link, which opens the gif rather than it being embedded.

Same. Sync and Boost were my two main apps, and both are getting brought over! It’s really great.

Connect is also really good right now.

Definitely notice the improved speed and fewer errors lately. Thanks so much for hosting a great instance, and for keeping up with its needs.

A lot of this stuff is pretty opaque to me, but I still read through it because I love how detailed they are in sharing what’s going on under the hood and how it relates to problems users experience. Kudos to you guys!

Well then they shouldn’t affect you one way or the other!

I’m keeping my account live so that I can still interact and ask questions in threads when I get taken there by search results. Reddit ultimately shows up a lot when looking for solutions to technical problems.

As far as browsing and contributing, I think I’m sticking with Lemmy. Things are just starting to get good.

Whatever the number, I’ve definitely noticed in the past few days that there are getting to be enough people having conversations and posting content for this place to feel like a legit community instead of a ghost town. I’m really glad to see more people joining and taking part.

Yeah, it does feel a lot better already. Thanks for your work maintaining this instance!

Sweet. Was thinking of getting one myself. Is that the one with the weird push-pull knob that engages a tone circuit?