Alternative title, The American Meme. I spent too long on this.

Loving the customization with Pop. My only real gripe so far is the dock not playing nice with themes. It seems to be stuck in default dark mode. Thanks to The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world for telling me about Open Bar. Awesome extension.

No real point to this other than to say I really Like this distro. I had had it with Windows, and in a fit of inspired rage, did a clean install of Pop. Besides a few hiccups (extensions loading properly and picking the wrong Nvidia drivers) its been smooth sailing.

Yeah, alright.

...Now you still see it but its stretched out and transparent.

Ive been doing this for years and it always scratches a spot in my brain.
Also, sorry if linking to a Bluesky is frowned upon. Also Also, where is everyone?

So this might be a weird one because I can just look this up anywhere, but Ive been dealing with some vexing medical problems the past year and I just want to see how allergies affect others. Maybe hearing from regular people instead of doctors will ease my mind a bit. A little back-story on my issue (though I'm not looking for a diagnosis), almost exactly a year ago I developed sever constant chronic rhino-sinusitis. I am constantly having to clear my throat and snort/sniffle. Its non stop every 30 seconds or so and no matter what combo of meds I take for allergies, nothing really helps. I have never had allergies before (that i know of) and all of a sudden, after well over 40 years on this earth, I'm allergic to everything. And I do have allergies. According to the test I took a few months ago, I tested positive for 45 out of 50 allergens they tested for. To make a long story short, every doctor I go to says its allergies. Says to get allergy shots and keep taking sprays and pills everyday etc. Nothing brings me any relief. I'm on the strongest sprays that are killing my sinuses and multiple 24hr allergy pills (Doctor ordered), and its almost like I'm not taking anything. So my questions to you wonderful people:

• What do allergies feel like for you?
• Are they constant or do you have flareups?
• Do meds help you significantly?
• Am I just being a big baby and how I feel is just what allergies feel like?

I know this is subjective and everyone will have different answers and that's fine. Honestly, I don't really have anyone to bounce ideas off of and talk about this, so this is as much a way for me to scream into the void and vent, as it is to gather info. Again, I'm not looking for a diagnosis, just your personal anecdotes so I can put my own situation into perspective. Love all of you peeps, thanks in advance for any replies!

Edit- Mods, I realize this kinda flirts with rule 3, please feel free to remove it if you so deem.

I recently set up a LLM to run locally on my desktop. Now that the novelty of setting it up and playing with different settings has worn off, I'm struggling to come up with actual uses for it. What do you use it for when not doing work stuff?

Mod removed my first post because "AI 'art' is for Borgs". So here is a real life version!

Happy Halloween everyone! Had some fun with a random Mad-lib style prompt and inserting "holding a sign saying Happy Halloween". The Text, of course isn't the greatest but, not that bad actually. The AI really likes jackolanterns with the Halloween keyword. Every image had tons of jackolanterns even though I didn't tell it to. The Prompt was "Adj Adj Random-Monster, holding a sign that says happy Halloween. By Random-Artist and Random-Artist." Here are a few more of the better ones: