Orange Pi Zero 3 SBC with DietPi
I recently wanted to upgrade my Raspberry Pi, and I setted on an Orange Pi Zero 3 Single Board Computer (SBC). Here is how I set it up. ...
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My Disillusionment with Generative AI
I’m a techno optimist by default, I do believe technology can solve the problems we face today, and make our lives better. But I do have concerns with the direction we are taking with Generative AI, and the future we are heading towards. This is an opinion piece… ...
My 40712 Micro Rocket Launchpad Alt Build
Something totally different today… another Lego Alternate Build MOC, that merges the 4 micro builds from a single 40712 “Micro Rocket Launchpad” set. Presenting my Micro Mobile Launchpad with spaceship and rocket Alt Build. ...
Using Flux.1 in GGUF format on macOS
city96 has published GGUF versions of the Flux1.Dev model and T5 XXL text encoder, along with custom nodes to use them in ComfyUI - thought I’d try them on my M2 Mac mini, hoping for faster inference! ...
Faster Flux.1
More Flux.1-based models! Go faster with FP8 or NF4! New LoRAs and ControlNets! There is quite a bit of interest with this model, as evidenced by the speed of community-led enhancements. ...
Wow! Flux.1 by Black Forrest Labs
While I have many posts about SDXL, I do not use Stable Diffusion 3 at all - license concerns aside, it is simply not good, and may never get better. But just a few days ago, a new, freely available, offline model that is better than SDXL was released by the team that presented Latent Diffusion and created Stable Diffusion, Flux.1 by Black Forrest Labs! ...
Tesla Model 3 Highland accessories
It’s been over three months since I last posted anything, becase I haven’t done much recently! So today, something different - a list of Tesla Model 3 Highland (2024) accessories. ...
Fun with Llama 3 (8B) in Ollama
I saw a post on Reddit, entitled “Llama 3 rocks with taking on a personality!”. A fun experiment! I thought to replicate it, blatantly copying the puzzle presented. Llama 3, released by Meta just before the weekend, is impressive. ...
Testing new PAG and Perp-Neg nodes in ComfyUI
I know it’s bad form to start off with a disclaimer: but the truth is, I do not know what I am doing. I am just testing out two new ComfyUI nodes, PerturbedAttentionGuidance and PerpNegGuider. ...
Mistral System Message setup to improve Image Generation Prompts
In my last post, I used ComfyUI-IF_AI_tools to integrate to the brxce/stable-diffusion-prompt-generator model running in Ollama. I wonder if I could use the base Mistral 7B model to help improve my uncreative prompts instead… ...