Is there anyway to keep up with this stuff / beginners guide? I really want to play around with it but it's kinda confusing to me.

I don't have an M1 Mac, I have an Intel one with an AMD GPU, not sure if i can run it? don't mind if it's a bit slow, or what is the best way of running it in the cloud? Anything that can product high res for free?

Yes, you can run it on your Intel CPU: https://github.com/bes-dev/stable_diffusion.openvino

And this should work on an AMD GPU (I haven't tried it, I only have NVIDIA): https://github.com/AshleyYakeley/stable-diffusion-rocm

There are also many ways to run it in the cloud (and even more coming every hour!) I think this one is the most popular: https://colab.research.google.com/github/altryne/sd-webui-co...