Visions of a larger plunder
It was honestly hilarious how bad it was and how much it could slow the system down in some situations. I'd be curious to see just how much of it was a byproduct of HDD's - that is to say, just how slow is it even in solid state drives!
Okay, I'm with you but...
how are we using these closed source models?
As of right now I can go to civitai and get hundreds of models created by users to be used with Stable Diffusion. Are we assuming that these closed source models are even able to be run on localized hardware? In my experience, once you reach a certain size there's nothing that layusers can do on our hardware, and the corpos aren't using AI running on a 3080, or even a set of 4090's or whatever. They're using stacks of A100's with more VRAM than everyone's GPU in this thread.
If we're talking the whole of LLM's to include visual and textual based AI... Frankly, while I entirely support and agree with your premise, I can't quite see how anyone can feasibly utilize these (models). For the moment anything that's too heavy to run locally is pushed off to something like Collab or Jupiter and it'd need to be built with the model in mind (from my limited Collab understanding - I only run locally so I am likely wrong here).
Whether we'll even want these models is a whole different story too. We know that more data = more results but we also know that too much data fuzzes specifics. If the model is, say, the entirety of the Internet while it may sound good in theory in practice getting usable results will be hell. You want a model with specifics - all dogs and everything dogs, all cats, all kitchen and cookware, etc.
It's easier to split the data this way for the end user as this way we can direct the AI to put together an image of a German Shepard wearing a chefs had cooking in the kitchen, with the subject using the dog-Model and the background using the kitchen-Model.
So while we may even be able to grab these models from corpos, without the hardware and without any parsing, it's entirely possible that this data will be useless to us.
But after the 2.5 years it takes to build the Windows index wouldn't it be the same - just searching through a built index?
Somewhat surprisingly the fediverse has been much kinder for Linux learners than my experience everywhere else online the last decade :)
Are you saying it's specifically an issue after restarting ones phone? Just a few weeks ago I was walking my dog and my phone fell out my pocket. I hadn't used it so it was locked and I was able to ring it just fine with Find my Device online. Took me a little while to find the sound, but it located it no problem.
I did do that but then my global connection to Plex stopped working entirely and localhost stopped working as well. Granted, I hadn't set it up to the VPN's IP yet!
I'll keep this in mind for the next run, thank you so much!
Krita does a decent job but for my workflows I definitely want the Photoshop plugin.
I would imagine MacOS has a harder time with generative fill, you'd be using Adobe's and not Stable Diffusion (which I'm pretty sure if what these non-Adobe plugins all run from).
I mean, if there's a way to get a stable diffusion server running for you and then you... no I had to look it up, I think this looks like your best bet and even then... I'm not sure
I need a VPN with port forwarding because I want to host game servers behind a CG/NAT. So there's at least one reason why they should still be featured.
I'm currently having a dumb issue if you'd happen to have some insight. I have windscribe. I'm using linux (debian). I installed the Windscribe package from the site and I have the same GUI I'm used to from Windows.
When I connect to my static IP, my ethernet IP doesn't change.
How do I ensure that I'm on my static IP in Linux so that I can actually use port-forwarding? Because at the moment I cannot turn on my VPN and have Plex, Overseer, any containers accessible outside my network. I can only see them on localhost. Eventually I'd like to get a domain redirect, but that's a separate issue that will be easier once I have a solid answer on getting my VPN always on and split tunneling in it set up properly.
I'm losing my shit here cause I can't find anything about this dumb problem online and it's such a simple thing that I'm used to just working lol.
Leaving that for posterity. I reread your comment. Their Linux app so looks to be parity equivalent with Windows, I believe both use your account online to set up port forwarding. However CLI Windscribe I believe is missing the option. But in any case, what you said my be related to the issue I'm having.
Anyway, fully +1 on Windscribe. I've been using them for years and they've always been quite to respond, transparent with what they've been served, and were active online on forums. Used a +50 code for quite some time and finally wanted unlimited and port-forwarding so I bought a sub and a static IP. Seems well priced as well, I'm paying about $25/year I think.
Previously by color/occupation.
Red Desktop, Music Workstation.
Been thinking themes more recently though. WolvesDen for my server, thinking of expanding on that some.
That's too bad! S1 was the strongest for me but S2 and S3 have been enjoyable. If the space western style wasn't selling it for you, they do move on from the motif a little after S1, but I wouldn't push through it unless you're interested in Mando and baby Yoda.
Personally what I've liked it for, aside from the western style, was how they were being subtle with the world building of the sequels. It's much more effective just being around cloning facilities that we can assume made Snoke and Palpatines bodies than outright pointing and speaking on it and I was glad it wasn't heavy handed to just try and "fix" missteps from the sequels.
I liked the latest season of Mando it was a pretty good direction forward I feel. Ahsoka has kept up with that pretty well, but the first ep is definitely moving slowly on the wrong things. But episode 2 was really good for the direction
FWIW, it seems that the first episode of most of these SW shows are just trying to get things set up for the things they actually want to write. Mando, BoBF, and Andor seem to be the exception, where BoBF teetered off a bit and Andor stayed strong throughout.
I don't disagree the shows have had some shortcomings, but overall I've actually enjoyed them quite a bit. I do wish they spent a little more time on making the first episodes feel "right" though, as that would help the reception overall quite a bit.
I loved Kenobi even though some people don't, but I accept the silly sequence of little Force Leia running away from bounty hunter/mercs as just showing Leia's force attunement. It's silly but effective since it shows her cunning at a young age.
Contrary to what the other person said, my friend and I watched it last night and the first episode left us with more mild disappointment than excited enthusiasm - but we actually loved the second episode and it felt much better for us. Our issues with the first episode weren't anything major, it was just contrived conflicts for the sake of actually getting to what's going on. Our two examples were there was a lot of maps and puzzles that feels like they should be part of a video game, and it's not the kind of puzzles that the audience can really feel like we're part of, and then some of the character conflicts were a result of unnecessarily withholding information when the characters can just clash and be a natural conflict. Finally, the ending was very funny in retrospect due to a character solving something, going to look outside at the stars, and then later saying they didn't solve it... so they were just staring in the sky for no reason with binoculars thinking maybe they'll see it xD
Okay but in all honesty, I still enjoyed and loved the show. I had a feeling that episode one was merely a means to get us moving and ultimately as long as these minor issues don't keep up with the rest of the show then I'm not worried. Episode two did have a minor video game segment with unnecessary tension but after that the episode was awesome. So far we're getting at least a little bit of development on the enemies they introduced (may Ray rest in peace) and it's cool seeing the timeline at this stage in the game. The translation from TCW/R is also done really well, I'd say everybody except for Huyang (a droid) looks freaking incredible. Huyang just looks like a puppet with CG overlaid or something, compared to the rest he's just a little out of it. However David Tenet does great with him :)
For context, I enjoyed all of BoBF (but definitely do see where it has shortcomings at various stages) and Kenobi as well.
@JimmyChanga per the lightsaber fight in Ep1's ending - my hope is that the character felt like she was showing off the tricks she learned resulting in her motivation for needing to go back to training. In that context, while not the best saber fight I appreciate it more. I liked Ahsoka's fights though
That's unfortunate, it really does run well on Steam Deck. I'm dealing with my own NVIDIA issues trying to get hardware acceleration and it's not been fun at all.
I cannot say that I love Linux, in fact it annoys me daily lol. I want things to just work and itends up wasting tons of my time to get only part of the functionality I was hoping for. The Steam Deck has been great, though my media server at times has made me wish I never wanted to self-host in the first place lol. (been kicking around various attempts at varying levels of success since 2017). From here, tl;Dr I am very stupid, I'm well aware, but also why is Linux so complicated? It seems counterproductive to need to be so heavily invested in something when it's goal is to keep you more hands off so you can focus on other tasks?
I feel like a broken record but I really want some medium between having full control over my OS and things just working. It doesn't help that there's OS specific syntax making anything outside of official documentation a hail mary. I've no love for Windows either but I've only been limited by it a couple times and I just wish I could say the same for Linux.
Of course, the limitations I've reached through Linux are entirely my own incapabilities, but that's kind of my issue? It seems redundant to have to know the entire ins and outs of it when the point of getting these tools to exist was to mitigate our tasks? I make music, art, I wrote and have a bunch of tech hobbies. I've spent time learning, but goddamn I just don't have the time and as time from the server hobby passes and I'm basically starting fresh. I just want some inbetween from needing to know the entirety of my OS and being locked out of it. It just seems that this hobby more than others, at least for me, needs to have the most consistency while having the least consistent sources of information due to immense level of knowledge that there is as well as the fragmented nature of each distribution.
On another note, I find it amazing how much easier Docker and its tools are in Linux than it is for Windows. Now that's funny! And it seems poignant to your issue as well... Some software is made for certain things, and translating that can throw a wrench in things. Docker on Windows, like NVIDIA on Linux, just weren't made with each other fully in mind and as a result have been made to retroactively "work".
Which is really too bad. It's pretty unlikely that something like Rocksmith2014 will ever work smoothly out of the box in Linux - it can be made to work with lots of work but... You can also just dual boot windows. Unless you're extremely familiar with the OS, chances seem high that the entire process of downloading and installing Windows then downloading and installing RS2014 will take less than 1/3rd of the time.
That's what's messed up about data, is technically the answer to your question is neither! What happens to your ownership of those downloads when your hard drive with no backup does? In that sense, a license tied to should be the safest method, but it's far from it thanks to our current practices.
But I agree with you of course, our control of our files on our hard drives indicate that we have more ownership over them.
Personally, the one thing the U.S. somewhat has right so far is we are somewhat legally allowed to format shift (within reason, stupidly but alas). Currently I can purchase any Nintendo game, decide I do not want to play it on any Nintendo console and it's within my rights to do everything short of redistribution to play that software on my PC.
Someone the other day asked if it's "pirating" to acquire a licensed title they purchased on Vudu. In my opinion, no because it's just format shifting - now, the T.O.S. may say otherwise but T.O.S. also isn't law so then it's a different issue. Vudu can say that you are only allowed to play your purchases through their website that harvests your data, which you signed when you created your account.
Still, fuck that noise. If I am purchasing something that means I expect to be able to use it no matter the surrounding circumstances. That means if my Internet is offline I can still view my content. That means if Vudu kicks the bucket I am unaffected.
Until services start giving me this option, I will continue to format shift my content. I store things for posterity and then watch on the service to support them. I want more super hero stories, so I will watch on HBO and D+. I want more IASIP, so I will watch on Hulu. But you damn better be sure I have them backed up for myself because I'm not paying $x/month to watch these forever.
Whether or not its within my rights to format shift this way I don't really care, I am only format shifting because history has shown we cannot trust media to stay online and unedited.
Example: currently made bluray/DVDs of IASIP also remove episodes. Not for me.
Doom's Hell, Star Wars' Felucia, Korok Forest/The Lost Woods, Zora's Domain, Xenoblade Chronicle titlescreen, maybe The Depths, Elden Ring's Nokron's eternal ruins, and finally we have Shadow of Mordor inside Legend of Zelda.
Lol, the last one I genuinely can't come up with somewhere, but the others all have pretty strong connections to the places I mentioned.
For the shortcut make sure it's outside of the quotes and it's double hyphen
"C:/your/game/path" --vr
Unfortunately I can't help more than that for this, but hopefully it's enough!
The only DMCA I've ever received was also from Transformers. Wtf Universal lol.
The VR version no less! You literally can't even buy it!
Especially since you can log in with your piped information. Stellar!
I'm not sure about for expanded models, but pooling GPU's is effectively what the Stable Diffusion servers have set up for the AI bots. Bunch of volunteers/mods run a SD public server and are used as needed - for a 400,000+ discord server I was part of moderating this is quite necessary to keep the bots running with a reasonable upkeep for requests.
I think the best we'll be able to hope for is whatever hardware MythicAI was working on with their analog chip.
Analog computing went out of fashion due to it's 97% accuracy rate and need to be build for specific purposes. For example building a computer to calculate the trajectory of a hurricane or tornado - the results when repeated are all chaos but that's effectively what a tornado is anyway.
MythicAI went on a limb and the shortcomings of analog computing are actually strengths for readings models. If you're 97% sure something is a dog, it's probably a dog and the 3% error rate of the computer is lower than humans by far. They developed these chips to be used in cameras for tracking but the premise is promising for any LLM, it just has to be adapted for them. Because of the nature of how they were used and the nature of analog computers in general, they use way less energy and are way more efficient at the task.
Which means that theoretically one day we could see hardware-accelerated AI via analog computers. No need for VRAM and 400+ watts, MythicAI's chips can take the model request, sift through it, send that analog data to a digital converter and our computer has the data.
Veritasium has a decent video on the subject, and while I think it's a pipe dream to one day have these analog chips be integrated as PC parts, it's a pretty cool one and is the best thing that we can hope for as consumers. Pretty much regardless of cost it would be a better alternative to what we're currently doing, as AI takes a boatload of energy that it doesn't need to be taking. Rather than thinking about how we can all pool thousands of watts and hundreds of gigs of VRAM, we should be investigating alternate routes to utilizing this technology.