One year ago today I opened my Pixelfed profile 🎉
Time for a short retrospective of how it all began.
Late 2024, 2 a.m.: I was manually integrating peaks from chromatograms in Chromeleon when I thought: why can’t an AI do this?
The idea didn’t go anywhere, but I started exploring AI frameworks and ended up with image generation. ROCm on Debian, EasyDiffusion, and then Pixelfed.
Later Debian and ROCm drifted apart, so I posted some real-life photos. With an Ubuntu chroot, everything ran cleanly again, even AUTOMATIC1111. SD 1.5 was my standard for a long time. Early this year I tried FLUX in ComfyUI but had to drop it: RDNA2 + no FP8 + incomplete HIP → FLUX-VAE not practical. Mid-January I finally fixed the NaNs in SDXL VAE in A1111.
Now I’m fully on ComfyUI, can render 1024×1024, and 512+ px no longer OOMs.
End of 2025, I used Pixelfed for IT/FOSS networking: the FOSS Advent Calendar. Posts were seen thanks to ActivityPub, and I even started my own dev blog xD
Thanks 💜 to everyone who follows me, especially my regular viewers and those I really exchange with.
Pixelfed remains my place to share, experiment, and learn.
1 year on Pixelfed, and it all started with peaks at 2 a.m.
tl;dr: Thanks so much to everyone who follows me, especially my regular viewers and those I really exchange with, you are awesome (in Austrian slang: Ihr seid ur leiwand 💜)
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