Author: Chryseus
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Understanding the Linux Boot System
Background If you’ve ever tried to install Linux from scratch or with a distribution such as Arch or Gentoo you would have found the partitioning and boot loader setup to be a rather confusing mess of different standards, compatibility problems and issues, particularly with dual booting, even when using an installer there is still a…
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Stable Diffusion Turbo – Comfy UI Workflows
Recently Stability AI released two new models called SDXL Turbo and SD Turbo, these are designed to drastically reduce the number of steps required to as low as one step, this allows for rapid testing and real time applications, SD Turbo is specifically trained on SD 2.1 which is a bit of a poor choice…
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Stable Diffusion Inpainting Tutorial – Comfy UI
Inpainting is a technique that allows you to make more controlled changes to an existing image, it works by defining an area called a mask for Stable Diffusion to work on, this masked area is then processed and blended into the image to ideally give a natural looking result, this is primarily used to adjust…
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Building xformers on Windows
xformers allows you to speed up AI image generation and reduce VRAM usage on Nvidia hardware, there are pre-built binaries however these may not be available for newer or nightly versions of PyTorch, in which case you have to build it yourself, this tutorial is for Windows but the same steps are mostly applicable to…
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Avoiding UK Government Censorship & Spying
As you may or may not be aware the United Kingdom government recently passed the highly controversial Online Safety Bill, at this time it’s awaiting royal assent before it becomes law, this law will severely impact freedom of speech in the UK, but more importantly, it will risk undermining the safety of every single person…