This was a great read! As someone who was initially excited about the possibilities of AI art, it’s been hit or miss with me.

I’ve come to realise over time that I like the connection that art offers. The little moment of ‘I wonder what the artist was thinking when they imagined this and what experiences did someone have to get to a place where they could visualize and create this?’

And I think that’s what missing with AI art. Sure, it can enable someone like me who has no skill with drawing to create something but it doesn’t get to the point of putting my actual imagination down. The repeated tries can only get to point of ‘close enough’.

For me, looking at a piece and then learning it’s AI art is basically realizing that I’m looking at a computer generated imitation of someone’s imagination. Except the imitation was created by describing the art instead of the imitator ever looking at it. An connection I could have felt with original human is watered down as to be non-existent.

For my laptop, 90% of. The reason is pc game pass. I like trying random games out for a few hours.

That said, my old desktop is still on windows 10 and there’s some shitty update that occasionally causes boot failure after which I’ve to either rollback the update, restore to a system restore point or (once) do a full windows reinstall.

The problem happened again a couple days ago. Since it’s not my daily driver anymore, I just don’t have to energy to fix it. I think it might be time to move to Linux, except I’ve no idea what distro to go for. For work, I’ve used a bunch of centos and rocky servers, but they’ve always been cli. I’ve no idea what kind of good ui based distros will work for me.