I love creating images with Stable Diffusion. I use it to quickly create thumbnails for my website, wallpaper for my desktop, crafting templates for my girlfriend, and have even used it to create some stunning comic art, which I printed, framed, and put on my wall at home. Recently, I heard about a fork of the project, …

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If there is one thing that I love about Linux, it's that I always find new ways to simplify complex tasks that would have otherwise taken me hours or days to do. In this article, I'll list some of the most useful terminal commands that I use to get things done. At the time of writing article, I'm using Arch Linux …

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In my previous post, I talked about how to install and configure the text-generation-webui, allTalk_TTS and SillyTavern. In this article I explain how to use KoboldCpp for use with SillyTavern rather than the text-generation-webui. KoboldCpp is an all-in-one piece of software for using GGML and GGUF AI models. It's …

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In this guide, I'll cover the process which I used to download and install all the necessary requirements to run SillyTavern on Arch Linux. If you have a moderately powerful PC and an NVIDIA GPU, then, by the end of this guide, you will be able to use your microphone to do voice chat with an AI character, then have …

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I was working in GIMP today on some large images, and the one thing that was bugging me, was how long it was taking me to find the tools I needed on the toolbar. The multi-column toolbar (which is set as default in GIMP) was slowing me down, and the width of it was taking up space that I could use for editing or …

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I've been playing around more with AI tools, and recently discovered a fun way to use your voice to talk to a "conversational AI". The cool thing about it, is that it can respond back to you using its own voice. This uses (NLP) natural language processing, which is the ability for computers to understand …

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You may have heard about a little thing called ChatGPT in the news lately. Some say it may be the end of humanity! Others, that it will make everyone unemployed, and our children will be watering crops with sports drinks! While these concerns are debatable, the topic of artificial intelligence is hard to avoid these …

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So, you've pressed play on The Sims 4 on Steam on Linux, and, annoyingly, you find that the game simply won't load! The game loaded fine yesterday, but now it's not working! You've probably uninstalled and reinstalled the game only to find that the same thing happens again and again over time. You've probably spent …

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