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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ostris/Z-Image-De-Turbo · A De-distilled Z-Image-Turbo⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for explaining!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ostris/Z-Image-De-Turbo · A De-distilled Z-Image-Turbo⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Stupid question, what is a distilled model?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I watch the first Star Trek Discovery episode, I didn't like it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk if I’d say nosedived. It dipped for sure, but it hasn’t cratered. It’s not a GoT season 8, that was a nosedive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Greed is Destroying the World - Drew Gooden⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s more just how I discovered him, the YT algo pushed him to me for quite a while which made me really skeptical of him. His content is decent like you said, but I’m always wary of people the algo pushes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨India is ordering Apple and Android phone makers to preinstall a state-owned app⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thought is good, but if life has taught me anything it’s that it’s only a matter of time until someone new takes over and uses it for their nefarious purposes. Forcing it is never a good option, it should be opt in

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Greed is Destroying the World - Drew Gooden⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m always on the fenc with Drew Gooden, but this is a good one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Busted box inside of a pristine Amazon box⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As an aside, I have that coffee maker and love it! See if there’s a local coffee shop, here in my city it was stocked and they even let me try a cup from there

  Oh as an aside, the coffee comes out SUPER weak at the beginning, where I thought it was broken. Give it 20-30 shots/cups and it’ll start tasting more normal. I’ve had mine for 3 years now and love it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4 leaky tires on the same rental, overfilled to compensate⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly they all suck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ostris/ai-toolkit: Added support for Training LoRAs for Z-lmage Turbo With De-Distill Training Adapter⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  holy shit, that’s really good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posts about storage being removed from /c/selfhosted⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Torn about this one. The rules do explicitly say about selfhosting, the software specifically. So, yeah against the rules. However, I think that’s pretty pedantic when we’re talking about an average of 6 posts a day, quite a ways from spam. Storage is a natural issue when it comes to selfhosting, choosing which storage can have large ramifications on how your services run above.

  It’d be nice if they at least removed it with a suggestion, like where to post it instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ostris/ai-toolkit: Added support for Training LoRAs for Z-lmage Turbo With De-Distill Training Adapter⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll have to keep an eye on it, thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ostris/ai-toolkit: Added support for Training LoRAs for Z-lmage Turbo With De-Distill Training Adapter⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought we couldn’t do training until the base model was released?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creator of Original Thomas the Tank Engine Mod for Skyrim Puts Thomas in Morrowind in Defiance of 'Legal Threats'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lawyers and marketers who refuse to see nuance and view everything as a potential threat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Create Art for a Book?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A big note that it’s nigh impossible to put two separate characters in one image, as the model has no idea who you are referencing. You can see this in all image models how they usually only have one central person, or two people who look oddly alike. Only way to get two or more characters would be with complex workflows to inpaint certain characters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Great, other companies have thought the same and they’re sheepishly realizing that’s not realistic. Let us know how it goes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to bathroom doors?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I just stayed in a hotel with my wife that was probably 140 square feet, and toilet was surrounded by frosted glass that still very much shows the outline of your lover shitting, and the entire top of it was completely open! So you could hear EVERYTHING. Now, we’re pretty close, but we also have some decency, like simply “Hey while I don’t care that you are pooping, I want you to feel comfortable not even needing to think about it”. Not so with that bathroom. It’s insane we need a whole video essay about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-dev⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, probably won’t run on a 3090 anymore then, Flux 1 barely fit on it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-dev⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, seems interesting, no big claims or anything on the page. Looks like a small iteration

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Booking.com cancelled woman's $4K hotel reservation, then offered her same rooms for $17K⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That really sucks, I’m sorry :/ yet I’m not surprised at all. Airlines, while absolutely terrible, can see if you booked through them and if you’re a loyal flyer, and they’ll help you out. Priceline just don’t care at all about you, you’re a single transaction, and they already got their money

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Booking.com cancelled woman's $4K hotel reservation, then offered her same rooms for $17K⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay so years and years ago I worked for… let’s say smexpedia.com. These third party booking platforms are just notoriously awful all around. They’re bad to you the consumer, they’re bad to the hotels, they’re bad to the hotel staff, they should be the last resort of booking. Hotels put their worst inventory up for sale on these sites that they know isn’t worth much. Then, these third party sites take those rates and do everything they can to squeeze every penny out of it. You are completely at the mercy of these two booking systems talking to each other, and bets are if something goes wrong you’ll end up at the hotel thinking you have a confirmed booking when in reality it’s gone missing.

  If you booked via the hotel, if you get to the frontdesk they’ll help you. So most hotels do go empty, and front desk is happy to help, but if you booked via a third party you have to get it resolved through them. So front desk will have no ability to help you, and you’ll call the third party booking site and they’ll have you sit on hold for 40 minutes, then you’ll get someone who’s job it is to get you off the phone, and they’ll eventually call the hotel and try to blame the poor front desk person, and eventually maybe you get something worked out. This was the common story. We knew we were selling rooms that weren’t available, but the error rate was “manageable”.

  And don’t think the bundles are saving you any money. Airlines operate on razor thin margins already, so they’re not wanting to give you a deal and remember now the third party wants a cut too. Rental cars are less and less bundle-able, and again, third party wants a cut.

  Book directly through the hotel. Do research, pick a chain you like, and join their loyalty program. If you book third party you will get dick when you get to the hotel. Join the loyalty program and they’ll sometimes hook you up. Remember, many hotels go pretty empty regularly. If you’re nice to the front desk agent and they have the corner room open, they may give it to you, they have to me quite a bit. You’ll get nothing if you book third party, that was all decided well before you arrived.

  I’m mostly venting to the abyss, but I hope someone sees this and it helps them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub is urging tech giants to enact device-based age verification⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s all 100% a slippery slope argument. Fact is is that they’re already trying to do that. Saying no is only going to be ignored, as it already is. It’s better to provide a solution that works that also respects our privacy and allows us to maintain control over our devices, otherwise they’ll mandate the exact thing you’re worried about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub is urging tech giants to enact device-based age verification⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That is not at all what we were talking about. California passed a law that only requires an admin on a PC to be able to create a child account which will be marked as under 18. Standard OS behavior there with permission systems that already exist. That then is passed up the stack. It’s quite literally a boolean, one that was created by a parent. It’s the most sensible way for a compromise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub is urging tech giants to enact device-based age verification⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly, it makes sense up and down the stack. Parent says junior is under 18 to the os. Os passes it into the browser, browser passes it along to sites, or prevents displaying them. There would of course be ways around it, but it solves 95% of the cases immediately, and lets us adults continue being adults.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub is urging tech giants to enact device-based age verification⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because if they don’t do something like this they’re going to lose a massive amount of their user base. If something like this doesn’t happen then it’s id verification, and it’s pretty clear republicans want that nationwide, and UK proves that other countries also want it. This would provide a format to say “I’m over 18 let me in” without needing to provide an id, and so most of their users could still enjoy privately. Decent compromise imo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub is urging tech giants to enact device-based age verification⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what California just passed into law, I think they’re thinking the same thing and trying to force the hand a bit before I’d verification becomes the only option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One hour into Gears 5 and I feel its a lot better than 4⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mass Effect 1? Trash, not enough weapons

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If someone says 10x it’s probably bullshit. 100x it’s definitely bullshit. I don’t even have a term for 1000x

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One hour into Gears 5 and I feel its a lot better than 4⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some would say weapons aren’t the only thing that makes a game good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can now try the Xbox Full Screen Experience on any PC, laptop, or tablet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Awesome, they now have what Steam delivered over 10 years ago with Big Picture

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HBO Chief Casey Bloys Confirms Writing Has Begun On Season 2 Of ‘Harry Potter’ Series Amid Season 1 Production⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure it will be, but will it be for 7 years? No idea. I’ve just lost all trust in Studios to finish anything they set out to do