@trode Just slow — it doesn’t crash, but Stable Diffusion processing can be agonisingly slow without native GPU support …

@trode I’m already doing that 🙂 But it doesn’t work too well for GPU intensive stuff like running Stable Diffusion, unfortunately …

There are certain image generation tasks that I cannot try out without installing Sonoma — for example, use the SDXL model natively via CoreML in a Swift app, at least as far as I’m aware. (Though I must confess that I didn’t look into this too deeply …)

So I’ve been wondering about installing the Sonoma beta. But since this would be on my regular production machine (and I do development for regular work), I wasn’t really keen on the possible downtime should something go wrong or some major app I relied on didn’t work correctly on the Sonoma beta.

Beta 5 was the target that I’d set for myself. By beta 5, we should be close enough to release, and hopefully fairly stable, that I should be OK was my thinking.

And beta 5 is here now …

But I’m not sure I want to switch. Just too much going on at the moment …

So I guess I’ll keep dithering? 😛

#Apple #macOS #Sonoma #Beta

Karl Guttag had a series of articles on the Apple Vision Pro soon after it was announced, and I read them with interest since Karl goes into the hardware/technical side of things when most other people simply “Ooh” and “Aah” about the “shiny” 😛

Then there was nothing from Karl for about a month, even though Karl had promised more articles with further thoughts.

Finally, there’s a new article — part one of two — which discusses something that I’ve been very keen on — monitor replacement.

https://kguttag.com/2023/08/05/apple-vision-pro-part-5a-why-monitor-replacement-is-ridiculous/

Monitor replacement has been my goal with AR/VR from the outset. I’ve tried most of the available software solutions, but have yet to find one that really works for me.

Immersed (https://www.immersed.com/) on Quest 2 is probably the one which comes closest, in software terms, to what I wanted. And I know that Renji Bijoy and his team do use Immersed to do work on a day-to-day basis. Unfortunately, my old eyes still have issues doing work for a full day using Immersed and Quest 2 😕

To be clear, this is not an issue with Immersed. It’s just that the current hardware does not have the display resolution to display text in a way that isn’t jarring, at least for my own use.

So I was pinning my hopes on Vision Pro, but Karl seems to think that this will be just that — a hope, and not something which will turn out to be reality.

I’ll still wait to try it out myself, but at this point, I’m thinking “Maybe the next version?”

#Apple #VisionPro #MonitorReplacement #Hardware #Analysis #AR #VR

I've been testing between the latest version of InvokeAI (https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI) and ComfyUI (https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI) and interestingly, it appears that ComfyUI is not as hard on the system as InvokeAI.

I tried the same model, LoRA, prompt, and batch size, and while the machine stayed totally fine during the ComfyUI generation (even after multiple batches), with InvokeAI, my MBP fan started going after just one set of images.

I do realize that InvokeAI is in a state of flux as they move to version 3.0, but the difference in usability is great enough that I think I’ll stick with ComfyUI for the time being …

#ImageGeneration #Python #macOS #ComfyUI #InvokeAI

@tazedhippo Since ComfyUI does not have any logic/control/input nodes (at least that I know of) you won’t be able to do selections from a batch etc. It’s just a different way of doing things to a UI like Automatic1111 …

You should however, be able to set up a new workflow which uses one of your previously generated images as the input for a new generation.

But of course, you might be looking for a single workflow which does it all?

@AngelaPreston Yep, our router has the guest access feature too though I’ve never enabled it.

But as you said, why would you want to give a totally unknown person access even that way? If they’d bothered to introduce themselves and explain the situation, then may be. But if the first word out of their mouth is, “Can I have your WiFi password?” 😛

@AngelaPreston IKR? It’s just that there are people from a lot of countries here and so I don’t know if it’s just that it’s normal for them to just approach people they don’t know and ask for their WiFi? Or was this somebody who really was up to no good?

I really can’t tell. I want to give people the benefit of the doubt, but when something like this happens …

If you get a chance to watch “The Collective” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23556408) save yourself some grief and give it a miss.

This was like people acting at being actors — it was horrible 😛 They mostly pose. They’d attack an enemy and then pose, then attack, and then pose. As if the heroic posing was mandatory.

And don’t get me started on the stupidity of supposed “professionals” …


#Movie #English #MiniReview #Horrible

*Ring* - it's the doorbell.

The bell rings twice more before I even get to the door.

I open the door and there’s somebody standing in the doorway of our neighbour’s apartment. The angle is such that I can’t tell if they actually have the door open and are inside the apartment or are just standing in the doorway.

I look at them inquiringly.

“Can I have your WiFi password?” they say, holding up their phone.

I’m like, “What?”

“Your WiFi password. I just want to make a call,” they say as if this was the most normal thing.

“I don’t want to give you my password,” I say and close the door.

That really was the whole interaction. I’m just flabbergasted by the whole thing still. Did they really think that I’d simply hand over access to my WiFi to somebody I didn’t know? (I don’t know my neighbours and they’ve never spoken to me before …)

Do they understand the security implications of the whole thing? Or was it an emergency (like trying to make a call without anybody else knowing for some reason)? If it was an emergency, why didn’t they tell me so?

I don’t know … But I’m still wondering …

#People #Interactions #Security #WiFi #Neighbours

I've been seeing some stuff on Reddit about how difficult it is to work with ComfyUI (https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI) and how it doesn’t work for a bunch of people ...

So I thought it must be even harder to get it working under macOS …

But about 10 minutes of work is all I needed to install it, run it, and get my first image generated. So not sure what the issue is, but it does look as if it works fine out of the box?

#ComfyUI #Python #ImageGeneration #StableDiffusion #maCOS #Ventura

@vicki This is a wonderful idea 🙂 Would love to contribute in some way … Haven’t read the full GitHub page yet … will do and see if I can contribute in some form.

#AmazingWorld
#Edinburgh
#Scotland
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#AmazingUkraine
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@askonomm Without meaning to be argumentative, you can’t really know what the creators intended. Sometimes even the creators don’t know where a show will go — “Lost” is a great example. The creators never knew where that show would end up …

Sometimes they create a certain show and over time it morphs into something else. We loved the first season of “House” it was exactly what we wanted — good medical drama, as advertised on the tin.

It’s the later seasons which relegated the “medical” part to a footnote and concentrated mostly on the drama 🙂

If you re-read my original post, I was talking about how “Warrior” actually balances the core story and the character development well. That’s what I like — not just character development (or drama) at the cost of everything else …

@askonomm I’m sorry if you feel attacked if I said that I disliked “House” but you do realize that not everybody has to have the same opinion, right? The world would be a pretty dull place if all of us had the same opinions and/or likes/dislikes 🙂

It’s just my opinion. You are free to have your own 😛

@askonomm I do enjoy sitcoms but I don’t watch shows for the drama — I watch it for the medical, mystery, thriller part of the show. Not the drama part. All power to the people who like drama for drama’s sake but there are some of us who’ve had enough of drama 😛

I do agree with you about movies and characterisation but that’s a different medium — in a short form like a movie, the heavy characterisation makes sense. But if you do the same in a long-running TV show, it just becomes too top-heavy.

Sure, there should be character development, but not to the exclusion of everything else.

@askonomm Each to their own — I got interested in the show because of the medical cases and the diagnoses they made, not because the main character was an ass 😛 So once it got to be all about House and his co-workers, friends etc. I really wasn’t that interested.

Personally, I think US TV spends way too much time on character development and disregard all other aspects of the story. A more balanced approach probably will cater to both types of viewers, but that’s just my opinion.

@stevesplace Yeah, we joke about that a lot when we watch those too 🙂 Same with “Death in Paradise” given that it’s a small island 😛