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my one recommendation to anyone who wants to check out AI stuff: unless it's LLMs, do it on Linux. Windows does everything it can to make it a huge PITA because i am a child that doesn't know how to properly manage a computer, i guess.

I have half a mind to buy a datacenter GPU and rack a machine "in town" just to have a dedicated box for myself. I have 2 gpu boxes but 1070ti and 3060ti.
ok for smaller LLM and audio stuff but too low_vram for Stable diffusion or any decent LLM model

@picofarad I'm making images on windows right now with no problems

@s8n FLux.1 Dev using a sampler other than euler, with controlnet?

Because i got SD 1.5 running on win 1.5 - flux-capable GUI suck.

i will not CLI generate anything, I'm not a poor

@picofarad idk what you're working with there but I'm running a webui called forge which is a fork of automatic 1111 and I'm using a model called illustrious and several supporting tools. I've uploaded a bunch of images the past few days that I think are pretty good
@picofarad I've used flux but it doesn't do much yet afaict except really good text and some interesting sentence parsing

@s8n
2022/10/25 elf A1111 sd1.5 model.bin
2023/02/11 tom sizemore A1111 some other model.safetensors

the rest are just what caught my eye in the output folders of various SD UI things. I really like img2img and controlnet, if forge does flux with CN and image to image... I'll buy ya a coffee.

missed doing this stuff, actually.

i use IRL photos a lot so i can't just dump my grids :-(

@picofarad @Nicktherat the fediverse is for asymmetrical communication dude it doesn't matter if you respond to me immediately or next week it's exactly the same
@picofarad @Nicktherat not asymmetrical what's the word for that... eh I forgot
picofarad

@s8n @Nicktherat chatgpt is really good at this

when i actually want to communicate to people with degrees i use it to check i don't sound like a neanderthal

or as george costanza said "Humans, we think so highly of ourselves we named ourselves smart twice.
homo sapiens sapiens
" that was on criminal minds btw that was a good episode if someone edited it down to 20 minutes

asynchronous though (my brain, not a gpu)

@picofarad @Nicktherat you shouldn't worry about that, people who are highly intelligent are burdened by their intelligence equally to how you may be burdened by your lack thereof so that's the least necessary audience for that kind of thing. I only use big words and complex sentences when I'm trying to say something very specific
@picofarad @Nicktherat if you want to imagine it, think of how your life would be if you could understand everything that you can't but it was all infuriatingly retarded. That's basically how it is

@s8n @Nicktherat a plurality of shit i do understand is maddeningly retarded.

I can hand build an antenna to spec for any frequency and bandwidth (within reason) you could want.

How the f does RF radiate instead of just making heat? i got no fucking clue. I've read the books. I can build circuits. I cannot *design* circuits.

okay now explain in detail how electrons work in a wire. or a transistor. Or lightning.

At least there's music and decent moving pictures.

@picofarad @s8n @Nicktherat they don't work inside the wire generally. there's an electrostatic potential defined by the material and a magnetic barrier generated when the cables are powered and the electrons :agummyparty: across the surface within the barrier

(i think there is some action inside the metal but a lot of energy is actually just riding the surface; its called the skin effect i think?)

@icedquinn @Nicktherat @s8n my current brains model, the actual physical "in space and measureable" movement of individual electrons in a wire that has potential and current is very slow (shockingly slow, i think, like 1mph or 10mph, walkingly... slow?)

i am plagued with static electricity and i know it's a single polarity being built up near the surface but i cannot fathom the interactions that cause that to occur.

@icedquinn the analogies all break down. Nothing makes sense. If you have 1 unit of 20/2 wire in space and you apply 120VAC across it for a mile and put a lightbulb in series at t'other end

and turn it on and off how long does it takes for the lightbulb to shut off in seconds as defined by SI

@icedquinn i said wire but i both implied and meant to say "Romex™ or equivalent"

and "turn on for 1 SI second and then shut off and don't change state anymore"

apply voltage and current for 1 second, then off.