I've been using the ever living heck out of Stable Diffusion. Shit is so fun. It's another tool for me as and artist to learn and utilize.
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Same, but with Microsoft's Image Creator. At least for me, I like using it to create pixel art for my own personal GitHub repos.
Stopped using reddit, started lemmy Switch chrome to firefox
Seeing many with these same ones, but that's me!
AI.
Biggest productivity increaser in yonks and fun to mess around with when bored.
It definitely is! It has helped me so much with the clusterfuck that is REGEX and figuring out what I did wrong 🙃
- Left Reddit for Lemmy, only came back several times to seek for specific information in a couple of niche communities
- Started using Firefox again, both in desktop and mobile
- Opened a nextcloud account, with plans to host our own when we have a little more free time
- Autohosted FreshRSS
- Started with Sonarr, Radarr, jellyfin and so on (you can guess what for)
- Mastodon is now my main social network
- Stopped using Windows. If I have to use some applications to interact with my clients I prefer to do it via cloud.
- Started renting a VPS and a domain. Now I have my own silly blog, a few services and a proxy to go to blocked sites (with the possibility to upgrade to censorship-resistant protocols if needed!)
- Among other things got an IRC bouncer, so started hanging out on IRC a lot more.
- Deleted my Twitter, Reddit and Insta (which were almost dead anyway but still).
- Went from hating IT and thinking it's just not for me to studying it in uni, as well as learning some topics myself.
- Degoogled my smartphone as much as I could with ADB (although barely noticed a difference, everything was from F-Droid anyway).
Around a month or two ago I got flashpoint and ruffle so I can play flash games on my computer. I have never really used either program before. I got ruffle because flashpoint doesn't have Nitrome games on their platform and I wanted to play a specific game. Haven't done much with ruffle since the games run kinda slow on my desktop.
I got a subscription to nebula, since my favorite creators are on there and YouTube’s subscription costs too much.
Quit Spotify for Apple Music and PlexAmp.
Slowly starting to phase out everything Google but it’s taking some time.
I’m using Google search less and now Ecosia has become my primary search engine.
Next thing on my list is to reduce streaming services. I quit Netflix and HBO in 2023 after having it for many years.
Using a VPN more and more.
I’m using much less Reddit, Facebook and whatever the fuck twitter is now. Instead I’m using Lemmy and Mastodon. Maybe this year I’ll delete all the old accounts finally for good.
Started using RSS again for news.
The only thing that changed how I did anything internet wise in 2023 was Reddit killing 3rd party apps and moving here. Tech related, I got a PS5 so I played that sometimes instead of 100% PC.