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by Winnow
January 19, 2025, 7:56 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff
Replies: 52
Views: 13974

Re: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff

https://youtu.be/0ER5qfoJXd0?si=GeAaWOZk-yZQnksB&t=148 I just posted that wall of text above about AI audio which I know no one will read but there's so much cool stuff going on with AI. I time stamped the above video to about the 2 min 30 second mark in case don't want to watch whole 7 min vid...
by Winnow
January 19, 2025, 7:39 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: AI Art - Examples
Replies: 19
Views: 2816

Re: AI Art - Examples

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1i4t111/abandoned/ Above is a creepy AI generated example of potential horror movie video. This week Cosmos was released by Nvidia. It's meant to train robotics but actually works fairly well as a video generator. It has image to video capabilities (...
by Winnow
January 19, 2025, 7:14 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff
Replies: 52
Views: 13974

Re: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff

This post will focus (mostly) on audio. As usual, there's been a ton of developments in the world of AI over the past week or so. For me, some new audio tools have fulfilled some things I've been wanting to do for awhile. Kokoro-TTS is a text to speech model that produces very high quality voices bu...
by Winnow
January 15, 2025, 5:23 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Nvidia RTX 50xx
Replies: 8
Views: 76

Re: Nvidia RTX 50xx



Kinda lengthy but it certainly looks like the FE is designed well.
by Winnow
January 13, 2025, 12:32 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Nvidia RTX 50xx
Replies: 8
Views: 76

Re: Nvidia RTX 50xx

With the cooling improvements to the FE cards I think I'd probably go with one of those. The third-party boards usually come with a bit of a premium on the cost. And I don't care about all the RGB and shit most of them have. The reference card would be fine. It's more a matter of finding them in st...
by Winnow
January 12, 2025, 1:01 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Nvidia RTX 50xx
Replies: 8
Views: 76

Re: Nvidia RTX 50xx



This video is hilarious covering all the third party BS marketing to try and get you to buy their brand. I have an MSI so might stick with that brand if/when I get one but not sure. MSI is including circles with their 80XX cards!
by Winnow
January 11, 2025, 6:56 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff
Replies: 52
Views: 13974

Re: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff

I've already made 900 AI videos! Mostly learning as I go, adjusting settings, mixing multiple LORAs etc. The default video combine setting is to save META data so for most hunyuan videos you see on CivitAI, you can save the video and drag it into comfy and it will pull up the workflow just like with...
by Winnow
January 11, 2025, 6:20 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Nvidia RTX 50xx
Replies: 8
Views: 76

Re: Nvidia RTX 50xx

I set that up last year but then never ended up using it. At least as far as getting Ubuntu installed. I didn't make it to messing around with Docker. I doubt I even know the root password any longer. I probably should have written that down. Setting up WSl/WSL2 is super easy as is installing linux...
by Winnow
January 8, 2025, 12:31 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff
Replies: 52
Views: 13974

Re: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff

Our FLUX models are now optimized to deliver exceptional performance on the newly announced GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs. With the introduction of FP4 compute support on these GPUs, powered by the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, we’re pushing the boundaries of what’s possible on RTX AI PCs. Our flagsh...
by Winnow
January 8, 2025, 2:25 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: AI Art - Examples
Replies: 19
Views: 2816

Re: AI Art - Examples

Man, I've been messing around with Hunyuan videos in ComyUI since the the beginning of the year. I'll eventually get back to images but videos are addicting. Hunyuan has impressed me. The quality is great and with upscaling in Topaz after the fact, I can make videos fairly fast (couple minutes) The ...
by Winnow
January 8, 2025, 1:38 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Nvidia RTX 50xx
Replies: 8
Views: 76

Re: Nvidia RTX 50xx

I'm sure the 5070 will be a nice card but it won't be a 4090 simply because of the VRAM. It may be a great gamer card though. when DDR7 comes out you'll have 3GB on a chip instead of 2GB so the next "Supers" will probably be 5090 48GB and 5080 24GB in a year or whenever. Nice to see the 50...
by Winnow
January 3, 2025, 7:50 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: AI Art - Examples
Replies: 19
Views: 2816

Re: AI Art - Examples

Happy 2025. I started playing around with AI video over the past few days. I'm using the Chinese uncensored model from Hunyuan. Nice that the Chinese let me decided what should be censored as opposed to US companies that decide for you. So a couple initial thoughts. The quality is way better than I ...
by Winnow
December 13, 2024, 12:09 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Where'd all the McCain/Palin supporters go?
Replies: 117
Views: 16166

Re: Where'd all the McCain/Palin supporters go?

Spang wrote: December 12, 2024, 11:12 pm
As for the election. First of all, I'm glad it was a "blowout" so there's no drama this time.
Trump received less than 50% of the vote. That’s hardly a blowout by any definition.
He won every swing state = blowout.
by Winnow
December 12, 2024, 1:00 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Windows 11 and RTX 3080ti
Replies: 14
Views: 2268

Re: Windows 11 and RTX 3080ti

Three+ years later and still nobody wants to upgrade to Windows 11 due to how bad it is. 10 months to go until end of updates in Oct-2025. I might do the additional year for $30 or whatever it's going to be. MS must be getting desperate because the last reboot I did I got three screens and/or popup...
by Winnow
November 30, 2024, 6:52 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: AI Art - Examples
Replies: 19
Views: 2816

Re: AI Art - Examples



Not mine (reddit post) but a good example of outpainting using FLUX. D'awwwe cute mouse.

Multiple outpaintings and some upscaling from image 1 o 5.
by Winnow
November 29, 2024, 6:04 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: AI Art - Examples
Replies: 19
Views: 2816

Re: AI Art - Examples

FLUX also now has proper depth/canny/inpainting and outpainting depthflux.png Above is an example of using depth map. I took an old image from earlier in this thread, created a depth map and then you can change the prompt to keep the poses etc but change the style/look. raw photo of an asian girl. w...
by Winnow
November 29, 2024, 6:34 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: AI Art - Examples
Replies: 19
Views: 2816

Re: AI Art - Examples

Black Forest Labs, the makers of the image model FLUX released some cool new tools. One is called Redux where you can take an image or images and use their style to create an image aComfyUI.jpg eComfyUI_04347_.jpg Basically you can take two images and sort of merge them together. It's more for fun t...
by Winnow
November 29, 2024, 3:58 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Retro Nostalgia
Replies: 17
Views: 1892

Re: Retro Nostalgia

Got to love the 80s! Adding some Deborah Harry since I think you're a fan. What is Warhol doing with that mouse though? As far as that program goes I don't think that would work. I don't think CASE is valid syntax. But I really don't know C64 BASIC as it has been..uh.. many years since I used it. B...
by Winnow
November 29, 2024, 12:18 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Retro Nostalgia
Replies: 17
Views: 1892

Re: Retro Nostalgia

I tried the new QWQ 32B Q4 LLM model. This one isn't specifically for coding but figured I'd see how it did with a "BASIC" request write a basic program for the commodore 64 that lets you choose and roll the character stats for a Dungeon and Dragons character 10 REM Dungeon and Dragons Cha...
by Winnow
November 28, 2024, 11:48 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Where'd all the McCain/Palin supporters go?
Replies: 117
Views: 16166

Re: Where'd all the McCain/Palin supporters go?

I'm looking forward to the next 4 years I look forward to checking back with you in 4 years and see if you see feel the same way. Personally I think anyone who thinks that is a fucking moron. But hey we'll see who is right. No use debating it at this time. However I'll be more than happy to have be...
by Winnow
November 28, 2024, 10:51 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Finally building a PC
Replies: 43
Views: 5366

Re: Finally building a PC

That's pretty crazy with the 5090 a couple of months out. I started getting a blue screen on boot up the last couple of days, did some troubleshooting and it hasn't happened in a few boot cycles, but we'll see. If it crops up again I'll have to solicit help from someone that knows how to read dump ...
by Winnow
November 20, 2024, 11:40 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: AI Art - Examples
Replies: 19
Views: 2816

Re: AI Art - Examples

People are already failing hard with their anti AI bias: Most People Slightly Preferred AI Art To Human Art I asked participants to pick their favorite picture of the fifty. The two best-liked pictures were both by AIs, as were 60% of the top ten. Even Many People Who Thought They Hated AI Art Prefe...
by Winnow
November 13, 2024, 5:03 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Finally building a PC
Replies: 43
Views: 5366

Re: Finally building a PC

4090s being discontinued. ...up up go the prices on Amazon. 5090 32gb version in production,,expected late January with most likely ridiculous scalper prices. There will be plenty of people lining up to pay way over retail for the 5090. Anyone that wants an AI or high end gaming GPU gets to wait ano...
by Winnow
November 10, 2024, 4:23 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: MX1000? WTF?
Replies: 25
Views: 3382

Re: MX1000? WTF?

One thing I learned is that these mice are very well designed internally. The MX1000 in particular impressed me with how easy it was to disassemble all the individual parts of it. With the Performance MX I didn't really feel that was the case as much but it wasn't bad. I felt the holder for the AA ...
by Winnow
November 10, 2024, 3:50 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Where'd all the McCain/Palin supporters go?
Replies: 117
Views: 16166

Re: Where'd all the McCain/Palin supporters go?

If you watch What we do in the Shadows, I felt like Collin Robinson the past few days, feeding on the misery of all the liberal media that somehow can't believe Trump won! This is after the fact on VV (but I did win the Bush election VV points electoral prediction here back in the day so I'm decent ...
by Winnow
October 12, 2024, 3:28 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff
Replies: 52
Views: 13974

Re: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff

This is impressive: https://replicate.com/blog/flux-is-fast-and-open-source It's basically on the fly instant FLUX If the demo is still up, type something and watch as it instantly updates the image. Looks like we'll have a version of it for local use relatively soon. The generations speeds are less...
by Winnow
October 4, 2024, 10:24 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Retro Nostalgia
Replies: 17
Views: 1892

Re: Retro Nostalgia

It's funny (sad?) how I've spent more on these old Commodore computers this past year than on my current PC. And really I'm not sure why as I have zero nostalgia for the Amiga as I never had one. I always wanted one at the time but they were too expensive for me and then in the early 90s I just end...
by Winnow
October 2, 2024, 9:21 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff
Replies: 52
Views: 13974

Re: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrKrc071Cco&t=421s The above is a good example of just some of the interesting voices/accents. You'll notice a couple hiccups in the beginning. Not sure where those came from. I haven't experienced those voice hiccups myself. Maybe it was his recording setup that...
by Winnow
October 2, 2024, 8:05 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Finally building a PC
Replies: 43
Views: 5366

Re: Finally building a PC

50xx series leaks are out. 5090 supposedly going to be getting 32GB RAM. Unfortunately 5080 is still stuck at 16 GB. Why? When you're paying $1000+ for a graphics card is memory really a large part of the cost? Leaked specs show 600W for 5090 and PCI 5 slot so I'd have to build a new PC. I only hav...
by Winnow
September 25, 2024, 2:22 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff
Replies: 52
Views: 13974

Re: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff



ChatGPT voices are getting really good. I don't have a use case to spent $20/month for it but seems worth it for someone that might.
by Winnow
September 20, 2024, 2:02 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff
Replies: 52
Views: 13974

Re: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edx8inrn0KQ I'm still messing around with FLUX every day. As for video, it's coming along. The above video shows the latest update to Kling which has a limited free access you can play around with. Pretty impressive how far it's come. It's just a matter of time for i...
by Winnow
August 31, 2024, 11:54 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: AI Art - Examples
Replies: 19
Views: 2816

Re: AI Art - Examples

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1f5x795/movement_is_almost_human_with_klingai/ You can see the flaws by looking at details but if you were browsing videos, you wouldn't know it's fake. Getting better. Anyone can create at least this level of AI by uploading an image to https://klin...
by Winnow
August 31, 2024, 5:53 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff
Replies: 52
Views: 13974

Re: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1f523bd/good_flux_loras_can_be_less_than_45mb_128_dim/ I've been creating some amazing FLUX.1-dev LoRAs that (after image prep) take me about 90 minutes to create. There is no research paper with info on FLUX so people are still figuring it out. So n...
by Winnow
August 18, 2024, 2:59 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff
Replies: 52
Views: 13974

Re: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff

Things are moving super fast with FLUX regarding training LORAs, smaller models for the weak-sauce GPUs etc. I took the time to learn and create some LORAs over the past few days and man...the are amazingly good. Everything is python, no GUI for what I'm using but once I got a handle on all the sett...
by Winnow
August 18, 2024, 2:21 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Not a real subject
Replies: 21
Views: 3119

Re: Not a real subject

Sorry to hijack "Not a real subject" but Black Forest (makers of the FLUX model) is available on Grok on X No thanks. I had zero desire to go on Twitter pre-Musk and have even less of a reason now to go anywhere near that dumpster shitpile. Not even with a 'fake account.' Twitter can fuck...
by Winnow
August 16, 2024, 12:04 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Not a real subject
Replies: 21
Views: 3119

Re: Not a real subject

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1etb42h/i_designed_some_heels_in_flux_and_brought_them_to/ Regarding AI creativity, take a look at this video of someone using FLUX and Kling.AI to design women's high heeled shoes. That's all done with easily accessible AI models that anyone can use...
by Winnow
August 14, 2024, 11:52 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Not a real subject
Replies: 21
Views: 3119

Re: Not a real subject

Sorry to hijack "Not a real subject" but Black Forest (makers of the FLUX model) is available on Grok on X https://x.com/LinusEkenstam/status/1823598003459965394 Anyone with X (twitter) can make images (uncensored it appears) with high quality for free. It's probably using FLUX Pro which s...
by Winnow
August 13, 2024, 10:43 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Not a real subject
Replies: 21
Views: 3119

Re: Not a real subject

I don’t think AI is going to do what you think it’s going to do. On paper it seems like a great idea: create any kind of content you want whenever you need it. But who’s going to buy your Aunt Jemima fan-fiction graphic novel? Or any AI novel for that matter? Why should anyone bother to read a book...
by Winnow
August 13, 2024, 12:59 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff
Replies: 52
Views: 13974

Re: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff

FLUX_eyes1_.png FLUX_eyes2_.png The LORAs (which people originally thought couldn't be done for FLUX, are starting to come out and they are great. https://civitai.com/models/641755/flux-at-j-lora?modelVersionId=717794 That's the lora for the weird looking chess netflix series lady. It's a good test...
by Winnow
August 12, 2024, 3:55 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Not a real subject
Replies: 21
Views: 3119

Re: Not a real subject

Aslanna wrote: August 12, 2024, 2:29 pm Why does that sink have two faucets?
One has a filter for drinking water : )

Not unusual for 2. One you can pull out and use, the other fixed. That's not the obvious flaw : ) Something has 5 legs.
by Winnow
August 12, 2024, 1:26 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Not a real subject
Replies: 21
Views: 3119

Re: Not a real subject

I’m never going to appreciate your AI “art”. If you can create it with actual skill and talent, your Aunt Jemima fan faction will still be weird, but at least I can respect the effort that went into making it. There have been many advancements in technology that make creating art easier, but it sti...
by Winnow
August 12, 2024, 12:04 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff
Replies: 52
Views: 13974

Re: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff

Man free short video AI is getting pretty good. You can do this for free: https://www.reddit.com/r/FluxAI/comments/1epyf67/more_flux_kling_werewolf_horror/ It's a werewolf eating a corpse so NSFW due to that. All they had to do was type in this prompt: https://preview.redd.it/ndciv4hsa4id1.png?width...
by Winnow
August 11, 2024, 10:52 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Not a real subject
Replies: 21
Views: 3119

Re: Not a real subject

Amazing! With very little effort, you can create mediocrity! Give it a go. I'd love to see you top it with your own "god given" talents. I suppose you need to only use your hands and maybe your own blood as paint because anything else is technology and would be cheating. I will allow you ...
by Winnow
August 11, 2024, 4:21 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff
Replies: 52
Views: 13974

Re: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff

Well, I bit the bullet and took the time to sort of learn ComfiUI. I mean it's not like I didn't try to get you to use it almost a year ago or anything... I had used it previous to that but I just didnt like it compared to Auto1111. Forge just added FLUX support today. ComfiUI is also getting a UI ...
by Winnow
August 10, 2024, 7:28 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Finally building a PC
Replies: 43
Views: 5366

Re: Finally building a PC

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EJIM_oqvXD8 Happy I switched to AMD when I did, back when I was posting how AMD was blowing Intel away in sales and performance. Intel just kept trying to up the gigahertz instead of make better chips. I get that Boeing vibe from Intel. A big company that lost it's wa...
by Winnow
August 10, 2024, 4:20 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Not a real subject
Replies: 21
Views: 3119

Re: Not a real subject

sp-1.png sp-2.png Don't try and deny the pictures of Aunt Jemima were faked! AI is just another extension of all the tools humans have used over the years to improve what they can produce. Hands, rocks, charcoal, paint, pencils, computers, Photoshop, and on it goes. AI everything, text, images, vid...
by Winnow
August 10, 2024, 1:13 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff
Replies: 52
Views: 13974

Re: Stable Diffusion and AI stuff

comfiUI-mastered.png Well, I bit the bullet and took the time to sort of learn ComfiUI. I can now string together my own spaghetti and make my own workflows but mostly it's modifying and patching together multiple workflows to get what I want. I still pull the workflow over to the SwarmUI Tab thoug...
by Winnow
August 5, 2024, 8:37 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Not a real subject
Replies: 21
Views: 3119

Re: Not a real subject

EQLATE5.png Polaroid 2000s of a woman sitting at a computer at night, asleep, messy hair, wearing pajamas with her head lying on the keyboard, passed out, an emty plate with crumbs is on the table, crumbs littering the table, the game EverQuest game screen with the game world in the background says...
by Winnow
August 4, 2024, 7:38 am
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: Finally building a PC
Replies: 43
Views: 5366

Re: Finally building a PC



Paul's Hardware News is usually pretty entertaining.
by Winnow
August 3, 2024, 8:15 pm
Forum: Computers/Technology
Topic: AI Art - Examples
Replies: 19
Views: 2816

Re: AI Art - Examples

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