IntheTreetop

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[–] IntheTreetop@lemm.ee 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yup. I have to take twelve medications daily to keep me from dying. Retail price for all of them would be about $15k a month. Once that goes away, I go away. Now I have to face the idea of sitting down with my wife and planning what she'll do when I die.

No one in this day and age should have to do that. I'm 42...

[–] IntheTreetop@lemm.ee 27 points 1 month ago (14 children)

I will forever shout it from the rooftops. Monopoly is a 30 minute game, regardless of how many players you have. If you play by the actual rules, and none of the house rules you've made up for yourself, it's really quick and really fun. No families need to be shattered over the game. No friendships lost. Just play by the actual rules!

[–] IntheTreetop@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sadly, Mastodon had its shot during the pandemic and blew it. The non-tech savvy didn't understand how federation worked and they marketed themselves very poorly.

[–] IntheTreetop@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

What We Leave Behind...

[–] IntheTreetop@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago

This makes a lot of sense, and why I'd never survive in Canada.

[–] IntheTreetop@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

If this is true, we get Kira in skin-tight leather. So, it's not all bad.

[–] IntheTreetop@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago

You've ruined my afternoon and sharing it with my wife, I've ruined hers too. Great stuff.

[–] IntheTreetop@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] IntheTreetop@lemm.ee 17 points 3 months ago

Man, after the last decade, just let us have this for a little while.

[–] IntheTreetop@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago

As someone with a wife from Wisconsin, it's highly effective.

[–] IntheTreetop@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

It depends on your timetable. Right after it's consumed? Of course not, we're American. Does it shorten our lifespan significantly to the point of heart attacks in your mid to late 40s? Absolutely.

[–] IntheTreetop@lemm.ee 67 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Unfortunately, they were also recently acquired by Canva. It may be all right for the time being, but I wouldn't throw my full weight behind them anymore.

 

This is the fourth NaNo event I've participated in and my fourth win. I set my goal at 25k words, so just half a real NaNo, but more focused on an area of my writing that I'm severely lacking. The month has helped improve it a bit so that's been nice. Also pretty happy that I finished a week ahead of time. Maybe for next camp, I'll up my goal a bit to push me a bit harder.

But anyway, I accomplished something important to me and got another certificate to hang on my wall which I'm pretty happy about. Figured I'd share.

 

A real masterclass in analogies.

 

I'm using the DirectML fork of A1111 because it's the only one I can get to work.

For professional reasons, I have to have an AMD gpu. I had a 6650 and was able to upgrade to the 6700xt for the extra vram, but the change has made no difference in errors telling me I'm out of vram.

I am a fairly frustrated because it seems I'm locked out of a lot of really neat and powerful features. Generating a batch of 4 images at 512x512 already takes a couple minutes. Moving that resolution at all jumps up the time considerably. I can do very little with img2img and ControlNet is effectively useless for me.

So, now that I'm done whining, is there any news about AMD improvements that might bring performance up to even a decent level with comparable Nvidia cards?

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