I'm running a 3060 with 12 GB VRAM on a 2014 rig. Can confirm it works well, the only sad part is the random all-computer crashes sometimes.
ControlNet's from this (reference, openpose, depth_leres++) 
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digital art, character portrait art, medieval ages, featured in artstation, dnd comission, soft shaded, semi-realistic, a knight with several scars on his face, wavy hair, french man, uneven and imperfect skin, skin imperfections, messy skin, 28 yo, recovering from pain, scorched, sores and scars, pores, wrinkles, blood and dust in the air, a man with a lot of frothy skin on his face, looks angry and solemn, wearing shining silver heavy plate armor with details of angels, digital art, hyperdetailed, subsurface scattering, Soft Diffuse Lighting, fine details, intricate, elegant, digital art, highly detailed, soft lighting, high quality
Negative prompt: realistic, hyperrealism, RAW photo, 8k uhd, dslr, Fujifilm XT3, (black:0.1), (asian:0.1), (anime:0.5), helmet, helm, crown, smirk, jewels, lipstick, (deformed iris, deformed pupils), text, cropped, out of frame, worst quality, low quality, jpeg artifacts, duplicate, extra fingers, mutated hands, poorly drawn hands, poorly drawn face, mutation, blurry, dehydrated, bad anatomy, bad proportions, extra limbs, cloned face, disfigured, gross proportions, malformed limbs, missing arms, missing legs, extra arms, extra legs, fused fingers, too many fingers, long neck
Steps: 20, Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 650801510, Size: 1024x1024, Model hash: acbb21f4d2, Model: darkphoenix3D_v12, Denoising strength: 0.75, Mask blur: 4, ControlNet 0: "Module: reference_only, Model: None, Weight: 1, Resize Mode: Crop and Resize, Low Vram: False, Threshold A: 0, Guidance Start: 0, Guidance End: 1, Pixel Perfect: False, Control Mode: My prompt is more important, Save Detected Map: True", ControlNet 1: "Module: dw_openpose_full, Model: control_v11p_sd15_openpose [cab727d4], Weight: 1, Resize Mode: Crop and Resize, Low Vram: False, Processor Res: 512, Guidance Start: 0, Guidance End: 1, Pixel Perfect: False, Control Mode: Balanced, Save Detected Map: True", Version: v1.6.0-2-g4afaaf8a
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close-up portrait of a blond male wizard, dark color palette, thief, looks (angry:0.5) and solemn, digital art, character portrait art, medieval ages, featured in artstation, dnd comission, soft shaded, semi-realistic, arthas menethil, aragorn, gwent, downward somber expression, dramatic portraiture, (homeless:0.3), hyperdetailed, well defined, intricate detail, subsurface scattering, soft lighting, high quality, uneven and imperfect skin, skin imperfections, messy skin, 28 yo, recovering from pain, pores, wrinkles, masterpiece, high quality, best quality, Detailed
Negative prompt: noble, paladin, good, gold, anime, long hair, makeup, (black, asian:0.1), (deformed iris, deformed pupils), text, cropped, out of frame, worst quality, low quality, jpeg artifacts, duplicate, extra fingers, mutated hands, poorly drawn hands, poorly drawn face, mutation, blurry, dehydrated, bad anatomy, bad proportions, extra limbs, cloned face, disfigured, gross proportions, malformed limbs, missing arms, missing legs, extra arms, extra legs, fused fingers, too many fingers, long neck, low quality, normal quality, worst quality, (bad anatomy)
Steps: 20, Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 2160757106, Size: 1024x1024, Model hash: acbb21f4d2, Model: darkphoenix3D_v12, ADetailer model: face_yolov8n.pt, ADetailer confidence: 0.3, ADetailer dilate erode: 4, ADetailer mask blur: 4, ADetailer denoising strength: 0.4, ADetailer inpaint only masked: True, ADetailer inpaint padding: 32, ADetailer version: 23.11.1, ControlNet 0: "Module: reference_only, Model: None, Weight: 1, Resize Mode: Crop and Resize, Low Vram: False, Threshold A: 0, Guidance Start: 0, Guidance End: 1, Pixel Perfect: False, Control Mode: My prompt is more important, Save Detected Map: True", ControlNet 1: "Module: dw_openpose_full, Model: control_v11p_sd15_openpose [cab727d4], Weight: 1, Resize Mode: Crop and Resize, Low Vram: False, Processor Res: 512, Guidance Start: 0, Guidance End: 1, Pixel Perfect: False, Control Mode: Balanced, Save Detected Map: True", ControlNet 2: "Module: lineart_standard (from white bg & black line), Model: control_v11p_sd15_lineart [43d4be0d], Weight: 1, Resize Mode: Crop and Resize, Low Vram: False, Processor Res: 512, Guidance Start: 0, Guidance End: 1, Pixel Perfect: False, Control Mode: Balanced, Save Detected Map: True", Version: v1.6.0-2-g4afaaf8a
a drawing of a white bird nightingale furry with a bow, beautiful female white, blue eyes, intricate feathers, complex background of winter forest, trees, flowers, wife, anthro, cute!!!, official splash art, a beautiful woman in white, lux, fine details. anime, skins, bursting with holy light, pastel colored, featured on ign, higher quality, hyperrealistic d & d fantasy art, portrait close - up, white and blue color palette, hearthstone colour style, medium close-up, fantasy races, griffin-like style
Negative prompt: lower quality, blurry, simple background
Steps: 20, Seed: 3512019771, Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras, CFG scale: 7
model: dungeonsAndDiffusion_v3.safetensors
Ye. There aren't people who believe you can't be moral without being religious (christian) for nothing. Christianity has actually a lot of good messages.
Same. I particularly love those. Matthew is a bop:
Matthew 26: 52
“Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him, “for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.”
and similarly
Matthew 7:1-2
1 “Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.
Matthew 5:27-29 - Adultery in the Heart
27 “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.
Word by word: It doesn't matter what women wear, if you can't restrain yourself then take your eye out.
Matthew 9:12
When Jesus heard that, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. [...]"
I want to ask why I should consider that but then I realize this must be your most specific hobby and I'm afraid of the answer
I went through the ISOs myself rather than going to a technician and paying for the service + the OS
pro tip
I'm not in the US
even if I was it's my right to find political debate in the internet something not worth getting into
IDGAF
No, separated. I'm not some kind of savage.
I'm not in NYC, kek.
Anyway, the hard part is that I'm not in the USA and universities work very differently, but the practice of students gathering around always happen. Someone suggested joining things thought out for other fields and I think it's the best idea so far since I don't really mingle with people who study my subject. But giving the board game shops a fair chance is not a bad idea either. TY!
Yeah it's bloody weird but usually they start it (looking at me and smiling). Always because I look very butch and they're lesbians.
This is hard since I study CS. It's a pretty individualistic setting where people usually study by watching videoclasses and doing lone projects. The study group is usually the clique you make on the first month of classes. Ever since my first two cliques dissolved as people dropped out I found myself pretty much stranded alone on academical matters.
I live in Brazil and the night is scary. Parks are dominated by the homeless and addicts. Gas stations are usually inhabited by conservative folk I'm far too queer to mingle with (this entire country but the southeast is basically a red state). No metros here and the bus station is also somewhat of a dangerous place at night.
On sports, school was already a nightmare. Always picked off last, didn't have reflexes, didn't even have the strength to throw the ball to score on basketball. Maybe martial arts. They're usually cool.
Thanks for your reply.
Universities here don't have official clubs. There are some shenanigans people get into, but they aren't sponsored or even organized unless they serve some societal or educational purpose. It's also a bit hard to learn about them. My best bet is paying attention to the boards in the corridors and at the library because the good ol' A4 sheet ad is immortal. Even then it's rare for new stuff to get advertised. Maybe if I make a habit of going earlier once a week to scour every campus for new ads.
I can't get into more classes right now. I can only change my classes at the start of each semester and for mental health reasons I only take 2, max 3 classes at once. The issue is that all my teachers lumped their 4 classes in the week to be lectured consecutively, which is why I only go two days on a week.
How far is the commute?
40 minutes on the bus, 15 on a private taxi. My city has good traffic but even the bus is a bit expensive. Each ride is about a minimum hourly wage and the private taxi is double that. I won't go by bike because I would have to cross two avenues and a busy highway. But going to university just to hang about scouting for people feels silly.
Join something that is obviously designed for another major. IEEE or a poetry club or cuisine club.
That's actually a good idea, since I mingle way better with humanities students than my fellow compsci students.
Thanks for your answer :)
No big self help lemmy so I had to ask it somewhere else. Alright, I'm an university student but:
- I don't like too much noise (no parties or bars).
- I only go to university twice per week and it's far from home.
- I don't like dating apps.
- Social media imo stresses me out instead of helping me.
- Can't steal friends of friends: New city, I know no one here.
- I suck abismally at sports. Also I don't have a sporty profile.
- Board/cardgame shops usually catter to people aged 30 and over as they can actually buy the games.
I'm just, like, out of ideas where to meet people aged 16-26. My best shot so far was in public transport but I'm usually too tired to bother. Been thinking of joining a DnD table or something just to meet people already rofl.
Cold weather because I'm tired of drenching in sweat and would rather have constant rainfall lmao
Bananas and olives.
How do you find communities for this thing? I only hit a lot of erotica and japanese-chinese groups.
Also, a lot of poetry/music. Unfortunately the spirit gets a bit lot in translation. I'm of the popular opinion that romance languages are the best for them, but the unpopular one that french sucks to hear and brazilian portuguese-spanish-italian are so much better.
As for books, Senhora. It's about a rich woman who "buys" a man in a marriage contract and makes him jump loops as her whims. Written in 1875, 50+ years before women could even vote.
The tomboy phase, mom. I'm a fucking man now.
Hi there, I'm a trans man and just separated all winter clothes that are too undeniably feminine for me. They're the large pile on this picture, which should have ten or so sweaters. However I'm fairly petite, I have 161cm and slim shoulders. I wear S size (with some XS or M sprinkled in). I'm not sure transfem shelters would need such small clothing and I've been thinking in giving them to other shelters instead (but not thrift stores). Thoughts?
Hi there. I live with an old woman who sometimes pockets some money to work as an informal dogsitter of sorts.
So she got a pretty good amount (half a month's minimum wage where I live) to take care of a bitch for a week. She doesn't accept pissfingers, though this is one of the top 2 questionable dogs she ever accepted. An adult female shih tzu with a teeth pointing out (like this picture) which means it probably came from a puppy mill.
This dog took an instant liking to my pensioner, but not to me. Also we're both females of similar stature and the dog's owner is also a female. So it's not man shy.
Whenever I approach this dog, she retreats and hides herself under a table or wardrobe. If I approach her within a range of 3 meters, she gets further away. When my pensioner is home, the dog follows her around like a shadow (expected behavior for a companion dog I think) but also puts herself between me and my pensioner barks at me when I get near. The dog never barks at me when I'm alone with it.
Whenever I open my bedroom's door, she also begins barking. She doesn't stop barking when she sees it is me. The only time she won't do that is when we're both in the kitchen, which is also our dining room, probably because she hopes I'll throw some scraps from my table (which I never did, but my pensioner does even though I told her not to do it).
She also barks back whenever a dog barks in the street. We live on the third floor of an apartment.
The dog is not bite/scratch oriented. The only time I can go near the bitch is if both her and my pensioner are cuddled together in the sofa or bed. She either won't bark or ceases barking when I sit down in the sofa, but still keeps looking at me like I'm a convicted criminal. She allows herself to be pet, but is visibly uncomfortable when I try to do so, even when I don't pass my hand over her head.
Probably the worst thing though is that she has a piss mat. She usually knows how to use the piss mat, but when no one is looking she will pee in front of my bedroom's door (which is always closed). Our floor is carpeted.
Things I have tried so far that didn't work: Talk to the dog in a "toddler" tone, squat to talk to the dog, lay on the floor to talk to the dog, share space sitting next the dog, pet the dog and then give her some kibble (she wouldn't eat from my hand), put the kibble in front of her and retreat my hand (she would burrow it within the blanket instead of eating), live normally not paying attention to the dog whatsoever.
Dog also really dislikes going out for a walk and hides before being collared.
I'm thinking in buying some treats on a pet store and try the kibble strategy again but with something tastier.
Those pictures were using img2img, and a sketch of mines as a base:
--- In tweaking the prompt, I noticed that my model didn't understand what a "portrait" was at all. It fared better with "face shot". From now on I also removed "armor" and "helmet" from the prompt. I also replaced "knight" with "paladin", as "knight" was biased towards full-armor pictures.
Even with "borzoi" and the picture, the AI wouldn't understand what a borzoi was at all without the "dog" keyword.
Those pictures were using img2img, and the photo of a borzoi as a base:
I tinkered with the prompt a bit more, adding "ear, dog ears" to the negative prompt and "fluffy fur, long fur" to the positive prompt.
Were we begin to see better results, but I dialed the fur part to "fluffy long fur" and also put in "long thin snout"
I added "dragonborn" to the negative prompt (this is a D&D portrait model, after all) and immediately saw better results:
Just as an experiment, I now brought the prompt outside img2img and into txt2img to see how solid the prompt was (images are at a lower resolution because I used fewer steps):
The results are surprisingly better outside img2img.
Added "watermark" to the negative prompt, brought it to 50 steps in DPM++ 2MK.
I began to have some deformed snout problems, so I brought it back to Euler a. Also put the height at 768 back again so the AI would be biased towards giving me closer portraits.
Just as a treat, I switched "paladin" back to "knight". Maybe it would give me different results outside img2img?
Back to "paladin", I also removed some keyword smashing from the prompt (shit like "high detail" and stuff I originally copied from somewhere else).
Also told it to give me a pencil portrait, just for fun.
And this is why I went to emaonly-safetensors-1.5. Emaonly understands what a face shot and a portrait are! It doesn't understand the "anthropomorphic with armor" bit, though. I just got pictures of regular dogs.
Back to D&Diffusion, I removed even more litter from the prompt. Now it only has strictly what I said I had written in within this post.
For a DPM 2++ Karras entry with 50 steps, this level of blurriness is utterly unnaceptable. Some of the keywords were added back in. Euler a gave me this:
You know what? I like this. I brought it to img2img. I reduced the CFG scale from 7 to 4,5, Resize and Fill mode.
The snout got shortened. The paws are awkward, but I don't think they ever won't be. I'm getting tired and lunch is getting cold, so I will just add "very" to the "long thin snout" part of the prompt and call it a day.
Before going to lunch, I noticed that I actually liked one of the images from earlier more. Remember him?
So I threw it with the new prompt in img2img while I went for lunch. It gave me back a lot of borzoi-face-shaped armor. I knew that it meant something was wrong with my prompt. The differences between my nice dogs face shorts and this sillyness was:
face shot of borzoi dog paladin, fluffy fur, medieval, high detail, sharp focus
vs
face shot of borzoi dog paladin, long thin snout, fluffy long fur, medieval era, Intricate, High Detail, Sharp focus, modelshoot style, natural colors, strong shading
So - "long", "Intricate", "High Detail", "modelshoot style", "natural colors" or "strong shading". I have an itch it is "modelshoot style". And, from the subsequent generations, I was right.
I added "portrait" back as well. I didn't like the lens effect of "sharp focus", so I removed that keyword.
The face began to get a little silly. I noticed that the snout marks were alike a labrador's, so I added labrador as a negative prompt. It worked in that the snout suddenly got a lot less wrinkly and longer, but I didn't think the output was aesthetically pleasing. I noticed that the base doesn't even look that much like a borzoi - the AI tries to capture my prompt into a more popular breed like a Poodle. We probably need a Lora to really generate borzois. So, after a hour and 300 generations later, I'll declare that singular generation from the beginning as a winner.
``` face shot of borzoi dog paladin, long thin snout, fluffy long fur, medieval era, Intricate, High Detail, Sharp focus, modelshoot style, natural colors, strong shading
Negative prompt: ear, dog ears, dragonborn
Steps: 50, Sampler: Euler a, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 245185935, Size: 512x768, Model hash: 937f4a8401, Model: D&Diffusion3.0_Protogen-fp32, Denoising strength: 0.75, Version: v1.2.1 ```
Hello, I've been looking into email providers. I'm not an activist, just a regular user concerned over privacy.
I used CTemplar in the past until it shut down. Had a cockli email and although it isn't Google the privacy isn't stellar either. I tried to get into Proton, but being unable to use Thunderbird on he free plan was a massive turn-off for me since I like switching easily between different accounts.
After a bit of searching the following came across for me as the best services: [free] Autistici, PARANOID, Disroot. [paid] Posteo, Elude.
Assuming I theoretically got invites for all the free services (they're all reliant on manual approvation), which one would you recommend?
@edit: After reading a bit on the free services, I decided that I will choose them in a Disroot > Autisci > PARANOID order of priority,