is Mint a good distro for a first-time Linux user?

Did I get malware on my pc somehow? Steam has been breaking a lot, the whole ui goes white sometimes and I can't do shit, then when I check randomly it's eating either 50% of my cpu or 80% of my ssd, and it's not like it's downloading anything at all, is steam breaking like this for other people?

Previous /sdg/ thread : >>100300932

>Beginner UI local install
Fooocus: https://github.com/lllyasviel/fooocus
EasyDiffusion: https://easydiffusion.github.io

>Local install
Automatic1111: https://github.com/automatic1111/stable-diffusion-webui
ComfyUI (Node-based): https://rentry.org/comfyui
AMD GPU: https://rentry.org/sdg-link#amd-gpu
Intel GPU: https://rentry.org/sdg-link#intel-gpu

>Use a VAE if your images look washed out
https://rentry.org/sdvae

>Auto1111 forks
Forge: https://github.com/lllyasviel/stable-diffusion-webui-forge
Anapnoe UX: https://github.com/anapnoe/stable-diffusion-webui-ux
Vladmandic: https://github.com/vladmandic/automatic

>Run cloud hosted instance
https://rentry.org/sdg-link#run-cloud-hosted-instance

>Try online without registration
txt2img: https://www.mage.space
img2img: https://huggingface.co/spaces/huggingface/diffuse-the-rest
Inpainting: https://huggingface.co/spaces/fffiloni/stable-diffusion-inpainting
pixart: https://huggingface.co/spaces/PixArt-alpha/PixArt-Sigma

>Models, LoRAs & embeddings
https://civitai.com
https://huggingface.co
https://rentry.org/embeddings

>Animation
https://rentry.org/AnimAnon
https://rentry.org/AnimAnon-AnimDiff
https://rentry.org/AnimAnon-Deforum

>SDXL info & download
https://rentry.org/sdg-link#sdxl

>Index of guides and other tools
https://codeberg.org/tekakutli/neuralnomicon
https://rentry.org/sdg-link
https://rentry.org/rentrysd

>View and submit GPU performance data
https://docs.getgrist.com/3mjouqRSdkBY/sdperformance
https://vladmandic.github.io/sd-extension-system-info/pages/benchmark.html

>Share image prompt info
4chan removes prompt info from images, share them with the following guide/site...
https://rentry.org/hdgcb
https://catbox.moe

>Related boards
>>>/h/hdg
>>>/e/edg
>>>/d/ddg
>>>/b/degen
>>>/vt/vtai
>>>/aco/sdg
>>>/trash/sdg

Official: discord.gg/stablediffusion

/lmg/ - a general dedicated to the discussion and development of local language models.

Previous threads: >>100298534 & >>100292317

►News
>(05/02) Nvidia releases Llama3-ChatQA-1.5, excels at QA & RAG: https://hf.co/collections/nvidia/chatqa-15-662ebbf6acc85f5c444029a8
>(05/01) KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19756
>(05/01) Orthogonalized Llama-3-8b: https://hf.co/hjhj3168/Llama-3-8b-Orthogonalized-exl2
>(04/27) Refusal in LLMs is mediated by a single direction: https://alignmentforum.org/posts/jGuXSZgv6qfdhMCuJ
>(04/24) Snowflake Arctic Instruct 128x3B MoE released: https://hf.co/Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-instruct

►News Archive: https://rentry.org/lmg-news-archive
►FAQ: https://wikia.schneedc.com
►Glossary: https://rentry.org/lmg-glossary
►Links: https://rentry.org/LocalModelsLinks
►Official /lmg/ card: https://files.catbox.moe/cbclyf.png

►Getting Started
https://rentry.org/llama-mini-guide
https://rentry.org/8-step-llm-guide
https://rentry.org/llama_v2_sillytavern
https://rentry.org/lmg-spoonfeed-guide
https://rentry.org/rocm-llamacpp

►Further Learning
https://rentry.org/machine-learning-roadmap
https://rentry.org/llm-training
https://rentry.org/LocalModelsPapers

►Benchmarks
Chatbot Arena: https://chat.lmsys.org/?leaderboard
Programming: https://hf.co/spaces/bigcode/bigcode-models-leaderboard
Censorship: https://hf.co/spaces/DontPlanToEnd/UGI-Leaderboard
Censorbench: https://codeberg.org/jts2323/censorbench

►Tools
Alpha Calculator: https://desmos.com/calculator/ffngla98yc
GGUF VRAM Calculator: https://hf.co/spaces/NyxKrage/LLM-Model-VRAM-Calculator
Sampler visualizer: https://artefact2.github.io/llm-sampling/index.xhtml

►Text Gen. UI, Inference Engines
https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp
https://github.com/lmg-anon/mikupad
https://github.com/turboderp/exui
https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp

/aicg/ - A general dedicated to the discussion and development of AI chatbots

Nostalgic Times edition

>News
AWS bedrock now has custom models on demand
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/im
port-custom-models-in-amazon-bedrock-preview/
Meta AI released Llama 3 8B and 70B https://llama.meta.com/llama3
Claude Opus on Amazon Bedrock https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/anthropics-claude-3-opus-model-on-amazon-bedrock

additional info: https://rentry.org/aicg_extra_information
lore: https://rentry.org/aicg_chronicles

>Bots
https://chub.ai
https://chub-archive.evulid.cc
https://rentry.org/meta_bot_list

>Frontends
https://sillytavern.app [SillyTavern]
https://agnai.chat [Agnai]
https://risuai.xyz [RisuAI]
https://docs.miku.gg [Miku]
https://character.ai [CAI]

>Botmaking
https://rentry.org/meta_botmaking_list
https://desune.moe/aichared
https://agnai.chat/editor

>Guides
https://rentry.org/tavern4retards

>Jailbreaks
https://rentry.org/jb-listing

>Models
claude: https://docs.anthropic.com
gpt: https://platform.openai.com/docs
gemini: https://ai.google.dev/docs
local: >>>/g/lmg
https://rentry.org/meta_golocal_listi

>Meta
OP templates: https://rentry.org/aicgOP
services assessment: https://rentry.org/aicg_meta
fun JBs and prompts: https://rentry.org/weirdbutfunjailbreaksandprompts - https://rentry.org/jinxbreaks
sultra: https://github.com/kingbased/gemini
logs: https://chatlogs.neocities.org
aicg botmaking events: https://rentry.org/meta_event_list

Previous: >>100298311

there is now so many bots in 4chan and in reddit that their numbers are equal to human numbers

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/dead-internet-web-bots-humans-b2530324.html

Humans now share the web equally with bots, according to a major new report. Report suggests that much of the content online is in fact automatically generated, and that the number of humans on the web is dwindling in comparison with bot accounts. Now a new report from cyber security company Imperva suggests that it is increasingly becoming true. Nearly half, 49.6 per cent, of all internet traffic came from bots last year, its "Bad Bot Report" indicates. In Ireland however, 71 per cent of internet traffic is bots.

>Some of that rise is the result of the adoption of generative artificial intelligence and large language models.

Companies that build those systems use bots scrape the internet and gather data that can then be used to train them. Some of those bots are becoming increasingly sophisticated, Imperva warned. More and more of them come from residential internet connections, which makes them look more legitimate. "Automated bots will soon surpass the proportion of internet traffic coming from humans, changing the way that organizations approach building and protecting their websites and applications," said Nanhi Singh, general manager for application security at Imperva. "As more AI-enabled tools are introduced, bots will become omnipresent."

Whenever someone says they think Rust is a very low-level language I show them this:

Why does this have a 50 message cap per three hours? I'm retarded and need to ask a lot of questions for my homework, and the default model is less accurate and cannot upload images.

What are you working on, /g/?

Previous: >>100261000

>Free beginner resources to get started with HTML, CSS and JS
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn - MDN is your friend for web dev fundamentals (go to the "See also" section for other Mozilla approved tutorials, like The Odin Project)
https://web.dev/learn/ - Guides by Google, you can also learn concepts like Accessibility, Responsive Design etc.
https://eloquentjavascript.net/Eloquent_JavaScript.pdf - A modern introduction to JavaScript
https://javascript.info/ - Quite a good JS tutorial
https://flexboxfroggy.com/ and https://cssgridgarden.com/ - Learn flex and grid in CSS

>Resources for backend languages
https://www.phptutorial.net - A PHP tutorial
https://dev.java/learn/ - A Java tutorial
https://rentry.org/htbby - Links for Python and Go

>Resources for miscellaneous areas
https://github.com/bradtraversy/design-resources-for-developers - List of design resources
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials - Usually the best guides for everything server related

>Staying up to date
https://cooperpress.com/publications/ - Several weekly newsletters for different subjects you can subscribe to

>Need help? Create an example and post the link
https://jsfiddle.net - if you need help with HTML/CSS/JS
https://3v4l.org - if you need help with PHP/HackLang
https://codesandbox.io - if you need help with React/Angular/Vue

We have our own website: https://wdg-one.github.io
Submit your project progress updates using this format in your posts, the scraper will pick it up:

:: my-project-title ::
dev:: anon
tools:: PHP, MySQL, etc.
link:: https://my.website.com
repo:: https://github.com/user/repo
progress:: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet

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