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- January 7, 2026, 9:04 pm
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff
- Replies: 130
- Views: 81079
Re: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff
I tried one of those chat ones that had 130k tokens or something. Supposedly the higher the number the more stuff is remembered? Anyway, it's interesting but was quite bad at keeping details straight over the long run so the continuity was not the greatest. Then I tried telling it what the actual de...
- January 7, 2026, 8:38 pm
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Retro Nostalgia
- Replies: 27
- Views: 10838
- January 6, 2026, 11:13 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Trump's new Golden Age
- Replies: 108
- Views: 36998
Re: Trump's new Golden Age
It's ok. Winnow heard it on Fox News, or one of their many clones, so is just regurgitating it. No actual critical thought was put into it.
- January 3, 2026, 6:12 pm
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff
- Replies: 130
- Views: 81079
Re: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff
No. I've just been messing around with Docker and saw this so decided to give things a try. I would like to set up a RAG thing that I can import my own documents into. I found a video with a workflow for n8n but it was pulling the documents from a Google Drive, and didn't know enough about n8n to kn...
- January 3, 2026, 12:22 am
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff
- Replies: 130
- Views: 81079
Re: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff
AI trying to gaslight me and be sneaky when called out. ### USER What is your cutoff date ### ASSISTANT My training data goes up to 2021, but I don't have personal experiences or memories after that point. ### USER A lot has happened since 2021. Do you want me to fill you in? ### ASSISTANT I'm aware...
- January 1, 2026, 2:19 am
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Nvidia RTX 50xx
- Replies: 52
- Views: 14864
Re: Nvidia RTX 50xx
Just a rumor that is going around. Between that and them supposedly reducing output on some of the lower end cards means it's going to be another GPUpocalypse.GeForce RTX 5090 Prices To Soar To $5000 As Nvidia And AMD Prep GPU Price Hikes in Q126
- December 30, 2025, 11:05 pm
- Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
- Topic: Arrested Development Cancelled!!!!!!? Dammit
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1867
Re: Arrested Development Cancelled!!!!!!? Dammit
Supposedly there is a reboot of MinM on the way. I never watched it originally so will probably give it a pass. If you are sick as fuck as me of seeing black people crippled people etc plugged into woke-friendly roles and want to see people of all genders and abilities made fun of and well written i...
- December 30, 2025, 10:36 pm
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Retro Nostalgia
- Replies: 27
- Views: 10838
Re: Retro Nostalgia
So Commodore is 'back'. I went ahead and purchased a Commodore 64 Ultimate Starlight Edition. Unfortunately there was a $55 "Tariff Tax". Thanks, Trump. Asshole.
- December 30, 2025, 10:12 pm
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6267
Re: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
Over two days so far and it's been stable so I think I'm good! I will give it a few more days and can go down to 6000 if needed. I'm just glad it was fairly easy to troubleshoot. I didn't have to mess around with obscure memory timings and all that.
- December 28, 2025, 9:13 pm
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: System Retirements
- Replies: 0
- Views: 19
System Retirements
So with each new system I put together I have just been leaving the old one sitting there. So now I'm going through my i930 system that has Windows 7 Ultimate installed on it. Checking System Information I see that the installed RAM is 14GB. I was like.. That seems like a weird number. Looking at th...
- December 28, 2025, 3:31 pm
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6267
Re: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
I finally got around to trying to diagnose my RAM instability issues. After doing research it seems DDR5 can be troublesome running 4 sticks at the rated speed (of a 2 stick kit) due to the memory controller. Overall Intel seems to have an easier time than AMD but that's just what I got from the few...
- December 24, 2025, 12:37 am
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Nvidia RTX 50xx
- Replies: 52
- Views: 14864
Re: Nvidia RTX 50xx
I think I got in at a good time. Nvidia is supposedly going to reduce output for the consumer cards by 40%. I don't even see the one I got listed for sale (or in stock, at least) any longer and it's all $3k+ cards. Some of these are almost $4k wtf? Nvidia really did the consumer market dirty.. The o...
- December 23, 2025, 11:56 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: 2025 RIPs in Peace
- Replies: 4
- Views: 107
Re: 2025 RIPs in Peace
From the list: Tom Stoppard. I don't know a lot of his work but I did enjoy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. Pretty clever stuff. Ozzy Osbourne _ I wasn't a huge fan but as someone who grew up in the 70s/80s it always sucks to lose someone from that time. Not sure why they reference him as Ozz...
- December 23, 2025, 8:33 pm
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6267
- December 22, 2025, 11:27 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: 2025 RIPs in Peace
- Replies: 4
- Views: 107
2025 RIPs in Peace
The end of the year sure has had some unexpected deaths. Rob Reiner - Whatever you thought about his politics this was just messed up. Greg Biffle - I'm no Nascar fan, and only recently saw a few of his videos, but him and his whole family just recently died in a plane crash which is also messed up....
- December 21, 2025, 1:51 am
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Jeffrey Epstein
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9649
Re: Jeffrey Epstein
Oh hey, a whole bunch of Epstein files have been released. Just a word of warning... If you want to print them out make sure you put in a new toner cartridge because you'll be printing a lot of black pages.
I imagine the number of people shocked by this are in the single digits.
I imagine the number of people shocked by this are in the single digits.
- December 21, 2025, 1:36 am
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6267
Re: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
I decided not to get the 500GB SATA as I don't think I'd really use it. I probably should have dropped one of the 1TBs also. I suppose I could always return it. While in Microcenter to pick up the rest of my order I did peruse the RAM aisle. A 128GB kit of Corsair Vengeance was marked at $2,000. Wha...
- December 20, 2025, 6:08 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Trump's new Golden Age
- Replies: 108
- Views: 36998
Re: Trump's new Golden Age
So the one who said he'd (magically?) fix grocery prices on Day One is still blaming Biden for everything almost a year later? I almost feel sorry for the people that believe anything that lying Cheeto says. But hey he lowered drug prices 600%! He's defying fucking mathematic principles over there i...
- December 17, 2025, 9:16 pm
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6267
Re: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
I went ahead and picked up a few storage items. For messing around with older computers without an NVMe slot I picked up 2 1TB Samsung 870 EVOs and 1 500GB 870 EVO. I really don't see myself using these too often but who knows. It probably would have been a better purchasing decision to have dropped...
- December 16, 2025, 2:42 am
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff
- Replies: 130
- Views: 81079
Re: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff
All those words you are saying.. That's all beyond me at the moment. I use Stability Matrix (Windows version) and used that to install the ComfyUI package. I haven't installed WSL on this computer yet. So this was the easiest path to get things installed again. I did get around to setting up my fan ...
- December 16, 2025, 1:24 am
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6267
Re: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
Samsung is supposedly going to stop making 2.5" SSD drives starting in 2026 so I guess if you want a Samsung drive you should probably get one at some point soon. I'm not sure the last time I used one so I don't I don't think I'll pick one up. But maybe a 1-2 TB one could be good for older comp...
- December 15, 2025, 11:05 pm
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff
- Replies: 130
- Views: 81079
Re: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff
nodes3.png Also, if you haven't already, set preview method to: Auto Yeah that's the UI I was familiar with. I am using ComfyUI 4.0 (well technically v0.4.0). 3.37 was a long time ago! I don't have that Preview Method option. It's all topsy-turvy! In a way it almost seems less-functional that it wa...
- December 15, 2025, 6:29 pm
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff
- Replies: 130
- Views: 81079
Re: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff
I did do some AI stuff to do some stress testing on the 5090. Normal Text to Image generation didn't seem that stressful but honestly I forgot how to do most things and the ComfyUI UI changed since the last time I used it. I only did a ZIT (terrible acronym) thing. Also annoying is when you load a w...
- December 13, 2025, 9:07 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Trump's new Golden Age
- Replies: 108
- Views: 36998
Re: Trump's new Golden Age
$12 billion bailout to farmers due to Trump's tariffs. Sounds like a success.
- December 11, 2025, 9:59 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Trump's new Golden Age
- Replies: 108
- Views: 36998
Re: Trump's new Golden Age
You could just comment on the topic I had instead of going off on your typical "well what about..." tangent. Who was even talking about democrats? Trump is unhinged. And as far as his economic 'polices' I do believe over 70% of the country disapprove or feel it's not good! Oh but I'm sure ...
- December 11, 2025, 8:32 pm
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Nvidia RTX 50xx
- Replies: 52
- Views: 14864
Re: Nvidia RTX 50xx
I would have to assume at least a terabyte of it so far.
- December 11, 2025, 8:32 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Trump's new Golden Age
- Replies: 108
- Views: 36998
Re: Trump's new Golden Age
Classic deflection.
- December 11, 2025, 8:03 pm
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Nvidia RTX 50xx
- Replies: 52
- Views: 14864
Re: Nvidia RTX 50xx
So how much porn are you generating?
- December 11, 2025, 8:01 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Trump's new Golden Age
- Replies: 108
- Views: 36998
Re: Trump's new Golden Age
Trump out there telling people their kids don't need 37 pencils or 37 dolls... What fucking century is this dudes Jell-O mush brain in?
- December 11, 2025, 2:06 pm
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6267
Re: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
I have been running with the new RAM by itself for the past day with no issues so it was definitely installing all 4, and not bad RAM, which led to my stability issues. I did check the QVL for the motherboard and it only shows 2x48GB and not 4x48 for my kit. But I don't think they sold this as a 4x4...
- December 8, 2025, 8:23 pm
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6267
Re: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
I pulled out the second pair of RAM sticks and, unfortunately(?), that resolved my frequent crashing issue. It could be they are bad so I'll go ahead and swap the old for the new and see how stable things are just running those two. If those end up being good I'll have to see if there is anything in...
- December 8, 2025, 8:03 pm
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Nvidia RTX 50xx
- Replies: 52
- Views: 14864
Re: Nvidia RTX 50xx
I'd say grats but I cant encourage this sort of behavior. This is the RTX 50xx thread so you don't even belong here! But on the other hand if you have the money to spare why not. I'm not sure I'm in the income bracket. I do imagine it would hold its value fairly well at least for a few years. As for...
- December 5, 2025, 11:53 am
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6267
Re: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
With as much as you're into AI I'm surprised you haven't gotten a 5090. I don't know.. I think you should give out hope on a 48GB model and get something now. Not like they will be getting cheaper or more plentiful. Especially with Nvidia allegedly telling board partners they are on their own when i...
- December 5, 2025, 11:49 am
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Nvidia RTX 50xx
- Replies: 52
- Views: 14864
Re: Nvidia RTX 50xx
As far as I know you wouldn't do undervolting in the bios. At least for a GPU. I know you can tweak memory voltages for the motherboard and all that but that's beyond me. I just put the memory in and hope it works. Afterburner is what people use. It should decrease temps a bit but more importantly i...
- December 3, 2025, 5:37 am
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6267
Re: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
I was at Microcenter today and someone had probably 150 128 GB microSD cards (mc cards in packs of 10). There's no way that was all for personal use. Darn speculators hoarding it up to resell later. With this new 'shortage' they should really start having a limit. But I suppose if they really wanted...
- December 3, 2025, 3:28 am
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6267
Re: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
I haven't overclocked in.. forever. It's really not worth it these days. I'll just have to do process of elimination on it and hope it doesn't get stuck in the restart loop again because I probably wouldn't not have a way to fix it.
- December 3, 2025, 12:09 am
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6267
Re: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
On side note, I did get a blue screen of death for first time in half a year yesterday. I've had a bunch of problems today. When I turned it this morning I got stuck in the dreaded 55 post code loop which is supposedly memory related however even when I took the two new sticks out it still didn't w...
- December 1, 2025, 3:28 pm
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6267
Re: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
I used to leave mine on 24x7 but recently I've taken to putting it in sleep mode when I go to bed. If I don't have it doing anything no real point in burning electricity along with writes to the SSD. If you use a Chromium-based browser it's slowly killing your SSD with constant writes even if you're...
- December 1, 2025, 3:12 pm
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Nvidia RTX 50xx
- Replies: 52
- Views: 14864
Re: Nvidia RTX 50xx
I used the adapter that came with it and it seems fine. Maybe because I'm not doing all that much with it. Now that I'm more aware, I should have gotten a power supply with a dedicated 12V-2x6 plug. Apparently that's the 'safest' option. A few initial thoughts: 1) As everyone has said, it's beefy si...
- December 1, 2025, 2:21 pm
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6267
Re: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
You got a good deal In todays terms, yes. Sad when you can say that on something that you paid 60% less for 6 months ago. I wonder what the 2x96 was going for back when I put the PC together. I should have went for that instead. Maybe the price to value ratio was wonky when compared to the 2x48. Or...
- November 29, 2025, 6:11 pm
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Nvidia RTX 50xx
- Replies: 52
- Views: 14864
Re: Nvidia RTX 50xx
I put in a general support case with MSI and this was the response: If your power supply has a 12VHPWR connector to 12VHPWR connector, then it is recommended to use that instead of the 12VHPWR to 4x8pin connector. Using a 3rd party cable will not cause warranty issues down the line. However my PSU d...
- November 29, 2025, 2:24 am
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6267
Re: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
Amazon finally got more stock of the RAM I bought in April for $300. It's listed at $940 now. Which is super dumb. And that's from the G.Skill store directly and not Amazon or a third-party seller. Anyway, waiting for Black Friday didn't save me anything on SSDs, but I'm all set there as well. I als...
- November 29, 2025, 1:59 am
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Nvidia RTX 50xx
- Replies: 52
- Views: 14864
Re: Nvidia RTX 50xx
Yeah my power supply came with a 12V-2x6 cable which I would rather use instead. I'm only a bit wary of using that as I thought the protection (and/or warranty) only covered the burnt connectors if you used the cable that came with the GPU. I'd have to double check but I thought I had seen something...
- November 26, 2025, 11:40 pm
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6267
Re: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
Yeah, assuming the two sticks I just bought are functional I'll be at 4x48. Just a tad more than the 640k anyone should ever need.
- November 26, 2025, 11:35 pm
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Nvidia RTX 50xx
- Replies: 52
- Views: 14864
Re: Nvidia RTX 50xx
I was a bit undecided on this. Half the posts said the protection plan was a 'scam' and others said it was great. As it was an expensive purchase I decided to add on the two year protection plan. So if my connector melts supposedly I can bring it in and get a replacement. If it wasn't for NVidia's s...
- November 26, 2025, 7:06 pm
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6267
Re: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
Seems I got what I ordered.. .So maybe not all Wal-Mart third-party sellers are scammers. I haven't actually installed it yet but it does appear to be genuine and factory sealed. On the other hand, I don't really need it now, so if I didn't open it I could sell it as new if I needed to. But I can't ...
- November 24, 2025, 10:50 am
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Nvidia RTX 50xx
- Replies: 52
- Views: 14864
Re: Nvidia RTX 50xx
I haven't opened it yet. Still debating if I want to at least get the 2 year ($200) protection plan. Normally it's not something I'd do but the melting connectors have me a bity wary especially on an item that costs so much. The MSI warranty is 3 years but I don't know if they cover that sort of dam...
- November 24, 2025, 10:23 am
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6267
Re: Arrow Lake upgrade thread
Two days and not a word from the seller. It's not looking good so far!
Update: Order shipped. Will see on Wednesday what I actually get.
Update: Order shipped. Will see on Wednesday what I actually get.
- November 23, 2025, 9:53 pm
- Forum: Computers/Technology
- Topic: Nvidia RTX 50xx
- Replies: 52
- Views: 14864
Re: Nvidia RTX 50xx
I ended up getting the MSI GAMING TRIO OC GeForce RTX 5090. What's up with all the caps in product names. Anyway... It has decent reviews, at least the ones I've seen, and seems about in the middle of the pack. I wish it had more RGB though as it looks a bit plain. That makes me sad that EVGA is no ...
- November 22, 2025, 8:20 pm
- Forum: Movies/DVD/TV
- Topic: Pluribus (Vince Gillian make of Breaking Back, Saul, X-Files)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 869
Re: Pluribus (Vince Gillian make of Breaking Back, Saul, X-Files)
Well actually... Vince Gilligan (not Vince Gillian) didn't 'make' X-Files. That was Chris Carter. VG was an executive producer.
However, that reminds me, I never did finish the last 2-3 seasons of Better Call Saul. I'll get around to it someday.
However, that reminds me, I never did finish the last 2-3 seasons of Better Call Saul. I'll get around to it someday.