Vaporwave Art EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 100%

A promotional card from the 1989 DRK Next Stage! press conference. A prototype rally car made from officially-licensed parts was exhibited on a private course. This was several years before the final version was made available for sale.

SDForAll EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 100%

Prompt: `A modern smartphone picture of a man riding a motorcycle in front of a row of brightly-colored buildings.` Settings: Rendered using various steps and CFG values, Euler a for the sampler, no manual VAE override (default VAE), and no refiner model. All images were generated at 1024*1024. This is using the 1.0 version of SDXL. Summary: Subjectively, 50-200 steps look best, with higher step counts generally adding more detail. A CFG of 7-10 is generally best, as going over will tend to overbake, as we've seen in earlier SD models. Prompting and the refiner model aside, it seems like the fundamental settings you're used to using will probably still hold true for SDXL. Granted, prompting is a bit easier for photorealistic outputs now, and the refiner model might allow you to use fewer steps for the initial generation with the base model.

Origami EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 100%

Mine is probably the crane or the jumping frog at this point, but I'm probably overlooking a ton of other cool traditional models. Anyone else have any they like to fold?

Vaporwave Art EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 100%

[Entire Art Portfolio](https://mega.nz/folder/8IpUWbTR#u4CPi8B33YBxvGpbZOge8Q) Since I was revisiting some of my attempts to use AI in my work, here's perhaps my very first attempt at combining vaporware with text-to-image generation. It's super messy and not really all that spectacular, but it's pretty cool to think that we've come this far in only two years. I mean, this (VQGAN+CLIP) was already impressive back in 2021, and it looks absolutely weird and incoherent next to even the first official public release of Stable Diffusion (from August 2022). This piece is one of those that I tend to ignore in my portfolio, as it's not all that great on its own, bit in with context, it helps to highlight the march of technological progress and changes to how I approach art in general.

New Communities EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 100%

normalcity.life

!origami@normalcity.life https://normalcity.life/c/origami A community about origami, on Lemmy. From what I can tell, this is the very first community of its kind on Lemmy; a bit surprising, if you ask me. I've been getting more into trying to fold my own origami designs, and I run the instance where this community is hosted. I guess you could say my stake in the community is two-fold, but I wish to build a community that's more than paper-thin. If you like creating origami or want to learn more about it, please stop by. I'll probably release the first of my freely-licensed designs here, assuming I can create anything that isn't an eyesore. It would be cool if others did the same, but a place to share knowledge and cool folds is the real end goal. So, that's really it: origami, but on Lemmy.

Origami EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 100%

This was one of my first attempts at using a repeating base pattern to create a more complex model. In other words, I basically folded a bird base in four smaller sections of the paper, which left me with several little subsections that I could fold in a way that added a more sculpted look. Since I was coincidentally using black and white paper and realized that I could fold the rear portion to look like a tail, I decided to try to fold a very oversimplified Orca. It has no dorsal fin, no anatomically-accurate underbelly, and little in the way of intrigue. Still, this is essentially my second design, and I think it's an interesting concept. I'm still not super happy with it, so I think I'll scrap it until I can create something better. Still, it's fun to share photos of folds like this, even when they aren't perfect.

Origami EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 100%

github.com

ORIPA is the closest thing we have to CAD for origami. It's based on Java, although it does have binary builds for several major platforms. I couldn't get the Windows build to work, so I installed the OpenJDK and used the .jar file. The program is essentially based on editing a crease pattern, allowing you to visualize the final model in 3D. One of the killer features is that you can export the 3D view as a mesh, which means you could potentially edit it for 3D printing or create nice renders of your origami designs in Blender. It has many fold options available and should accommodate various origami styles. I think one of the more promising ways to use this is to use it in tandem with a physical prototype for designing origami, as this gives you a clean template when you arrive at a design that you like. Some people have also mentioned that they design origami in this program before they ever fold it, which seems fairly difficult to me. Still, it's the closest thing I've found to a CAD program for origami, and it has a lot of features that make it genuinely useful. It's a bit rough around the edges, but it is a true little open-source gem that I imagine is easily overlooked for people new to origami.

Vaporwave Art EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 100%

[Entire Art Portfolio](https://mega.nz/folder/8IpUWbTR#u4CPi8B33YBxvGpbZOge8Q) ~~I believe I posted the revised version of this piece a while ago, but this is the original version.~~ I checked, and it doesn't look like I directly posted this anywhere. There's another version I made using img2img with my dreambooth model that is marginally better. I'm always trying to combine ideas in new ways, and this one was more of a visual metaphor of how the appreciated aesthetics of vaporwave have changed over time. It feels like the indie photobased charm has largely gone away, save for a few places like our Reddit counterpart, r/vaporwaveart. The larger subreddit, r/vaporwaveaesthetics, has an affinity for glossy renders that are often a bit too clean and polished for my taste. I appreciate it when people try new things, and aren't afraid to stick with an art style they like, even if it isn't the most popular thing in the world. Still, vaporware has been around for long enough now that the true beginnings of our visual aesthetics are essentially long forgotten.

Vaporwave Art EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 100%

[Entire Art Portfolio](https://mega.nz/folder/8IpUWbTR#u4CPi8B33YBxvGpbZOge8Q) Similar to [The Gaze](https://normalcity.life/post/68529), this is a parody of Caleb Worcester's once-steadfast affinity with his formulaic art style that was designed to maximize revenue. Somewhat ironically, it seems that this art style is driving some traffic to this community here on Lemmy. I'm not saying I hate this art style, but I do think it's funny that even the first major public release of Stable Diffusion could nail it without much trouble. I think it goes to show you how unoriginal Caleb's stuff used to be. Heck, I even made a post ages ago on Reddit detailing how he had even failed to properly credit people when he used their CC-BY 3D assets. From what I can tell, though, he's straightened up his act and is really starting to produce some unique stuff, all in Blender. In any case, this piece was one of a few initial tests I did with Stable Diffusion, even before the weights were made publicly available. I've since grown to love how it integrated tightly with my existing Photoshop workflow, and it's allowed me to amplify the kinds of public-domain-licensed artwork I'm able to create.

Vaporwave Art EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 75%

[Entire Art Portfolio](https://mega.nz/folder/8IpUWbTR#u4CPi8B33YBxvGpbZOge8Q) My goal is to share basically the entirety of my public-facing art portfolio; I think we might be close to the halfway mark. This is another experiment in minimalism from a few years ago; I believe this was from the summer of 2021. Nothing too crazy here, but I do revisit variations on the theme of flat colors and bold lines now and again.

Vaporwave Art EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 100%

[Entire Art Portfolio](https://mega.nz/folder/8IpUWbTR#u4CPi8B33YBxvGpbZOge8Q) I believe this is my most recent piece (as of 7/13/23). A classic mismash of vaporware tropes into a basic composition.

Vaporwave Art EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 80%

[Entire Art Portfolio](https://mega.nz/folder/8IpUWbTR#u4CPi8B33YBxvGpbZOge8Q) A piece inspired by the cover of Tatsuro Yamashita's Big Wave album. A fairly low-effort thing I did ages ago to try and add a film effect on top of an image, which itself isn't all that amazing.

Vaporwave Art EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 100%

[Entire Art Portfolio](https://mega.nz/folder/8IpUWbTR#u4CPi8B33YBxvGpbZOge8Q) [Original Video](https://mega.nz/folder/8IpUWbTR#u4CPi8B33YBxvGpbZOge8Q/file/oRgxBazR) *The Other Angle* was one of the first video art pieces I made.  I made a background from *The Other Angle*, a view-from-cockpit video, by translating this background around behind an image of a cockpit to make it look a bit like a flight simulator. You can see the full video in my portfolio, which is fully CC0. Obviously, the inspiration for this piece was from Hiroshi Nagai. He has a few paintings of planes passing over cities at dusk/dawn, and I thought it would be fun to try and do a first-person adaptation. Even on its own, though, I think the background is fairly eye-catching.  Here's the cockpit image I used for that video. It's stylized and tweaked but based on an actual image from Wikimedia Commons.

Vaporwave Art EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 100%

[Entire Art Portfolio](https://mega.nz/folder/8IpUWbTR#u4CPi8B33YBxvGpbZOge8Q) Not much to say about this one other than it was one of my only attempts to create depth and shading using gradients. Mostly, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

Vaporwave Art EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 100%

[Entire Art Portfolio](https://mega.nz/folder/8IpUWbTR#u4CPi8B33YBxvGpbZOge8Q) A bit of a sequel to [Friendless Friends](https://normalcity.life/post/14841). This is one of the few posts I've received significant attention from on r/fakealbumcovers. All of the images I used to create it are obviously in the public domain if you're familiar with my stuff, and the whole piece is as well. This one and everything else can be downloaded for free at the link above.

Vaporwave Art EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 100%

[Entire Art Portfolio](https://mega.nz/folder/8IpUWbTR#u4CPi8B33YBxvGpbZOge8Q) A piece from June of 2022. Loosely based on the album art of [Navigator](https://i.discogs.com/KUjc372h-f9pFDLyFWxiNtX6XA4pfJWgTYC-LZGKGlA/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:593/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTY4NzAz/ODktMTQ0NDMwNTM1/NC04NjEyLmpwZWc.jpeg) by Omega Tribe. From the pre-Stable Diffusion era of my AI-assisted work, where I was experimenting with stylizing photobashed images from Creative Commons. I used [this tool](https://github.com/bryandlee/animegan2-pytorch), although Stable Diffusion's img2img feature and ControlNet have arguably made it obsolete. It is pretty fast to run on CPU, though, which might make it a fun filter for people with more modest hardware. I made a few other pieces in this style outside of vaporware for art requests on r/drawforme, although any AI tool usage has been banned for some time there. The sheer irony of moderators dictating how people should be able to spend their own time to fulfill free requests is hard to state. I ended up creating r/generateforme (and now !generateforme@normalcity.life) for people who want to fulfill art requests without restrictions about using AI tools. Anyway, this era of my art is still one of my favorites. It was when I was starting to see some promise with AI tools, and it allowed me to hide some of my lazy photobashing behind layers of stylization. I still bounce between using AI and doing things totally from scratch, but a lot of my best art has come from mixing the two in roughly equal quantities. As always, this is public domain, like all of my work. My art portfolio link is linked above if you'd like to check out and download my stuff.

Vaporwave EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 100%

soundcloud.com

A short slushwave-ish thing using a generated sample (and some Freesound vocal samples).

Vaporwave Art EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 100%

 Let me tell you a story about a company. A company that shined as bright as the sun... Taiyou. Taiyou made cars for the international market, much like the other Japanese car brands you know. Taiyou is romaji for "sun," which is reflected in their slogan, "Taiyou no shita, subete ga kita!" In English, that means "Everything under the sun has come!" Taiyou wished to expand its market share, presence, and reach. It wanted to produce cars that were versatile and could handle anything. Unfortunately for them, the end of Japan's bubble economy meant investment money dried up quickly. As they were pouring money into R&D for a new car model, they had little money to spend on keeping the base model Cinco relevant. The company shuttered in early 1994, just two years after it had launched the Cinco DRK. Taiyou Corporation was formed on the outskirts of Chiba, Japan, in 1988. The sole founder, Takahiro Nakamura, was a renowned car mechanic enthralled with the tuning culture there at the time. After receiving investment money from an anonymous angel investor, Takahiro promptly started on his first design, the Cinco. The car was to be an affordable five-door design with a modest engine and a modest price tag. Only 100 1989 model-year Cincos were ever produced. Each one was hand-built by Nakamura and his small team of technicians. They sold well for such a small company, which led to more investment and growth. By 1991, the company had tripled in size, now employing well over 100 people and narrowing its focus on budget-friendly rally cars for up-and-coming amateur teams. They still kept producing base model Cinco cars, but they became less relevant in the market as time went on. This was primarily because Nakamura, now CEO of Taiyou, bet the company on R&D for rally-focused models instead of the budget-friendly base model. Every model of Cinco produced from the model years 1989 to 1993 is virtually identical. No climate control, no radio or cassette player, no power windows, and no option for an automatic transmission. The company essentially made the cars as cheaply as they could, which meant utilizing overstock and discarded parts from other manufacturers, forgoing any creature comforts from the era, and essentially focusing on providing affordable transportation. Many experts think the lack of focus on cheaper cars, especially to differentiate smaller companies from large competitors already providing better features on similarly-priced models, led Taiyou and many other smaller companies to file for bankruptcy in the early 90s. In any case, the R&D team, led by Nakamura himself, set out in early 1991 to design a car for amateur rally teams with little money to spare. They intended to create a set of parts that could be affixed to a base-model Cinco by the end-users, which would effectively make the cheap city car into something usable for off-road terrain. In the end, though, they decided that it would be easier to market the car if it was assembled from the factory with the upgrades installed. They called it the Cinco DRK, or *Dynamic Rally Kit*. This "kit" of parts helped to increase the engine performance to 240 HP, added more robust suspension, and removed excess weight from the interior. They also had a *Race Day Ready* version, which included factory-installed roll cages, racing seats, additional air intakes, and RF equipment. It was also tuned to make slightly more horsepower, although the difference in power was offset by the added weight. The DRK was made available to international customers in late-1992 for USD $14,999, although import and shipping costs increased the cost significantly. The cracks in Taiyou's misaligned focus were beginning to show, as sales were slow and the company was sinking into debt. Investors pointed out their significant losses on the DRK, which led to its discontinuation only 10 months after its launch in August 1993. The collapse of the company followed quickly. Out of money and unable to attract new investment, the company laid off its entire workforce in November 1993 and filed for bankruptcy in the early part of 1994. The company was eventually liquidated, and the remaining stock of 1993 Cincos was consequently sold off. Penniless and humiliated, Nakamura sadly passed away in his Funabashi apartment in September 1995. The cause of death was determined to be a heart attack, partly due to Nakamura's drug and alcohol abuse and also likely due in part to issues with chronic stress. *In reality, none of this is true. There was no company named Taiyou; this was an attempt at writing some fiction to go along with this piece.* [Entire Art Portfolio](https://mega.nz/folder/8IpUWbTR#u4CPi8B33YBxvGpbZOge8Q) In all seriousness, though, this is another attempt by me to create something realistic using Stable Diffusion. It's still one of my favorite pieces and was inspired by my previous effort with [Love Taste.](https://normalcity.life/post/60294) I thought these pieces went well with some light historical fiction, although my writing chops probably aren't as good as I've convinced myself they are. It took several hours to make the base image for this one as well, although the graphic design was pretty easy to slap on. I was inspired by the cover art for [Splendor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUYpXDtiH_M), a Casiopea single. Like all my work, this one is licensed into the public domain via CC0. You can find it and my other work at the portfolio link above.

Vaporwave Art EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 100%

[Entire Art Portfolio](https://mega.nz/folder/8IpUWbTR#u4CPi8B33YBxvGpbZOge8Q) Floppy disks may seem like ancient relics to some, but they're something I put to use when I'm shooting with my Mavicas. I also like the quirky geometric motifs of the 80s, and I absolutely fell in love with the [cover of PC DOS 3.30.](https://radioc.web.fc2.com/column/sofmus/img/ibmdos33fl.jpg) Like with many of my pieces, I always try to do something original with a borrowed idea. In this case, the fundamental shape of the floppy disk was laid out using a public domain image of a floppy disk I found on Wikimedia Commons. I wanted to do something a bit more fun with the composition, and I landed on what you see after some experimentation. I also played with the colors a bit to give it a different personality. This is definitely one of the more unique pieces in my minimalist folder, although I still have a sizable collection of vaporware art in general that I have not yet shared here. You can still see the rest of my CC0-licensed work at the portfolio link above.

New Communities EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 100%

normalcity.life

https://normalcity.life/c/vaporwaveart !vaporwaveart@normalcity.life This community was one of my main motivations to start a Lemmy instance. I'm a moderator of a few smaller tech/creative subs, and wanted to properly maintain a corner of Lemmy that felt a bit like Reddit. NormalCity is proving to be a fair bit of work, but I think it's worth it. The Vaporwave Art community here on Lemmy is moderated by the same people as the subreddit, and NormalCity (our home instance) is hosted and operated by me. The goal is pretty simple: a place to post vaporware artwork. We don't really have too many criteria, and have a pretty strong legacy on Reddit of hosting weirder, more experimental artwork than some of our larger counterparts. I'll admit: I don't really like people telling me what is and isn't vaporware. I think the community can figure out what it likes, for the most part. So, if you're still looking for a just-visual-art place to dump your vaporware-inspired work, stop on by. I promise we won't bite, unless you post Outrun. We'll probably bite then.

Vaporwave Art EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 100%

[Entire Art Portfolio](https://mega.nz/folder/8IpUWbTR#u4CPi8B33YBxvGpbZOge8Q) This was one of the first pieces I created with Stable Diffusion in August of 2022. I was trying to create something resembling many of the repetitive and overused 3D art tropes on r/vaporwaveaesthetics. The "person wearing a hooded robe looking at big thing away from the viewer" thing was something Caleb Worcester was churning out without fail for months. In a way, my use of AI in this piece was merely to satirize many karma-farming assembly-line pieces people like Caleb were creating at the time. Caleb was clearly only creating these pieces to prop up sales on his print shop and to sell NFTs, which is something diametrically opposed to my public domain licensing and open-source distribution. Of course, as I used Stable Diffusion more, I realized that it was an invaluable addition to my toolbox. I ended up building a PC to house a 3090 so I could experiment further with machine learning. I've since created a lot of cool things with it, including [Love Taste.](https://normalcity.life/post/60294) All of my work is open-source and licensed into the public domain. The link to my art portfolio is essentially a single-click download to grab all of my art at once. Oh, and more recently, I did try and train a quick [Dreambooth model](https://huggingface.co/euphoricpenguin22/3DVaporwave) based on some examples of 3D art that I thought represented the bulk of the popular stuff on Reddit. It's a bit weak, but you can sometimes get some interesting results.

Vaporwave Art EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 100%

[Entire Art Portfolio](https://mega.nz/folder/8IpUWbTR#u4CPi8B33YBxvGpbZOge8Q) A newer piece of mine utilizing Stable Diffusion and a ton of the excellent tools surrounding it. With the newer AI image generation tools, I quickly realized that creating realistic things that don't exist is pretty easy. Overall, though, this piece took something like seven hours: most of it was inpainting and getting the base image to look passable. I did spend a fair bit of time adding cool little elements to the graphic design, though, including the Cyclist Records logo, which is a bit of a parody of the Moon Records logo from that time. While not as much of a community favorite, I still think this is a cool showcase of how AI can help create believable artifacts from a bygone era that are total fabrications. If anything, the irony of that simple fact is something I find fits in well with many of the ironic undertones of vaporware.

Selfhosted EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 93%

I should add that this isn't the first time this has happened, but it is the first time since I reduced the allocation of RAM for PostgreSQL in the configuration file. I swore that that was the problem, but I guess not. It's been almost a full week without any usage spikes or service interruptions of this kind, but all of a sudden, my RAM and CPU are maxing out again at regular intervals. When this occurs, the instance is unreachable until the issue resolves itself, which seemingly takes 5-10 minutes.  *The usage spikes only started today out of a seven-day graph; they are far above my idle usage.* I thought the issue was something to do with Lemmy periodically fetching some sort of remote data and slamming the database, which is why I reduced the RAM allocation for PostgreSQL to 1.5 GB instead of the full 2 GB. As you can see in the above graph, my idle resource utilization is really low. Since it's probably cut off from the image, I'll add that my disk utilization is currently 25-30%. Everything seemed to be in order for basically an entire week, but this problem showed up again. Does anyone know what is causing this? Clearly, something is happening that is loading the server more than usual.

Vaporwave Art EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 100%

[Entire Art Portfolio](https://mega.nz/folder/8IpUWbTR#u4CPi8B33YBxvGpbZOge8Q) A neat little piece that leaned heavily into u/neovapor's style at the time: his art style is still one of the more unique ones I've seen anyone utilize in the Reddit vaporware art scene. I was inspired by it, but I wanted to take it in my own direction, which I think I accomplished through several different means. From the unique interpretation of sand, palms, and the sun peaking over the water: it's all the necessary elements of a rad beach day. The leaves of the palm tree are still something I've always thought was this piece's weak point, but the overall execution and clever-enough symbolism make it one of my favorite pieces.

Vaporwave Art EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 100%

[Entire Art Portfolio](https://mega.nz/folder/8IpUWbTR#u4CPi8B33YBxvGpbZOge8Q) Based on SNES game box art, this was a piece I built around a pretty cool method of doing the 80s metal text effect in Photoshop. If I remember correctly, you can directly copy and reuse it in your own project (since the project file is in the portfolio).

cross-posted from: https://normalcity.life/post/23792 >  > >  > >  > >  > > 

Selfhosted EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 100%

Hello, I started seeing weird spikes in memory usage that result in the instance being unavailable via the web interface or via Jerboa. They seem to happen on a regular interval, although they seemingly only started today again. They don't seem to be correlated with bandwidth, so I'm not really sure what could be causing this. Perhaps someone here has more insight into this. I believe something like this was happening last week, which led me to bump the server specs in the hopes that it would resolve the issue. Now our idle/typical usage isn't anything to be concerned about, but these weird spikes are starting to cause timeouts and outages. 

cross-posted from: https://normalcity.life/post/19363 > *Some pictures from my MVC-FD7. For those unaware of the Sony Digital Mavica line of cameras, the FD series (of which the FD7 was one of the first) store heavily compressed JPEG images on floppy disks. Also, the FD7 has a camcorder image sensor with interlacing, so everything looks like compressed stills from a VHS documentary.* > >  > >  > >  > >  > > 

Vaporwave Art EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 100%

[Entire Art Portfolio](https://mega.nz/folder/8IpUWbTR#u4CPi8B33YBxvGpbZOge8Q) A mashup of several styles I had come across on Reddit at the time, it's a fake album cover about parasocial relationships and is a photo bash of Daybreak by Mayfield Parrish. Perhaps my most popular piece on r/vaporwaveart, it has been printed into a poster by someone who enjoyed it and also graced the cover of the recent r/vaporwave jubilee compilation album, courtesy of u/nuvpr.

Selfhosted EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 100%

Hello, I noticed that my user count started going up much quicker than it should have. We probably have no more than 20-30 people on my instance at most, but the user count is now into the thousands.  *Screenshot taken last night*  *Screenshot taken a few minutes ago* ~~I'm not really sure what could be causing this, but it seems like some sort of database issue. I recently upgraded the server plan, since it's a VPS. Perhaps sending the shutdown signal and not manually stopping the Docker container caused PostgreSQL to shit itself. (Yeah, this was probably a bad idea). While I'm a bit rusty, I did have a semester class on SQL that might come in handy. Any ideas on what I should do?~~ ~~I suppose it could also be account spammers, so I did try and enable captchas. Unfortunately, email verification is still not an option for me to enable at this point. Assuming this was the issue, is there a way to remove the spam accounts?~~ The captcha did seem to stop the endless tick of the user count, but I'm not sure how we can get rid of the spam accounts.

Vaporwave Art EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 100%

Rules are on the sidebar. Feel free to post your vaporware art here. Have fun!

Selfhosted EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 87%

I just used the tool [linked here in the documentation](https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/theming.html) to create a Bootstrap theme, but I can't find the folder they're referencing. I've used Ansible to install Lemmy, which is working fine, but I'm not really sure how to handle themes as a result. Do I place them somewhere in my Ansible stuff, or is there that directory somewhere on the server? I found the Docker /volumes/ folder, but the directory names were random strings and not labeled like they supposedly are at the link above.

Music EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 100%

youtu.be

Pretty awesome tacky-soundfont-filled remake-vaporwave-parody of sorts. It's based on Sea is a Lady by Toshiki Kadomatsu, one of the better city pop instrumental albums out there.

cross-posted from: https://normalcity.life/post/1020 >  > > My series of moon shots are some of my favorite pictures I've taken with the FD91, and this one seems to be better liked out of the few I have. I like a few of them about the same, so this one does the trick for this post. Pretty decent for less than a megapixel, innit? > > >  > > I also have this thing for cloud photos. The FD91's JPEG compression and chromatic aberration really add to the grainy almost-film aesthetic this camera can sometimes manage. > > >  > > This one is a lot of weird things going on at the same time. I took it using my FD7; I think it speaks for itself. > > >  > > Another favorite picture of mine. I took this one using the FD7 as well; that CCD camcorder sensor really adds to the almost VHS look. > > >  > > While not the best image I've ever taken, I still think this image shows off the VHS vibes of the FD7 super well.

SDForAll EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 100%

Hello, It's u/EuphoricPenguin22, one of the moderators over at our subreddit. I'm the owner and maintainer of NormalCity, and welcome you to the official Lemmy counterpart of SDForAll. Things might be getting off to a slow start, but we're working on making (this) SDForAll and all of NormalCity a place you actually want to be. Our rules, located on the sidebar, are written to be the closest equivalent possible to what is expected on Reddit, so there should be no surprises there. NormalCity also has instance-wide rules, which you can read [here](https://normalcity.life/post/972). These are analogous to Reddit's code of conduct, although they are tailored to the needs and goals of this instance. In any case, feel free to say hello in the comments. I'll be posting SD-related stuff here as I can; hopefully this will provide you with an adequate replacement to our subreddit in time. With third-party app support ending, I can easily relate to the aversion to the official mobile apps. Sincerely, u/EuphoricPenguin22

Selfhosted EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 100%

I used the Ansible playbook instructions and got my instance up and running, which is where I'm sending this from now. Still, I was not able to get the SMTP side of things working. Does this whole setup self-host SMTP on the Lemmy instance, or is it something I'll have to sort out externally? I've heard some people have had issues with Digital Ocean on certain ports, which is the VPS provider I'm hosting on, but even other ports I've tried have not worked.

Jerboa EuphoricPenguin22 • 1 year ago • 100%

I'm having this error most of the time I try to comment. It seems to be because I can't manually select the comment language like I can on the web UI.