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The first image I've generated on my own PC! My favourite animals, of course. [Fooocus/Stable Diffusion XL]
  • 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.

  • My own DnD character, Sor Timothé :D
  • ControlNet's from this (reference, openpose, depth_leres++)

  • My own DnD character, Sor Timothé :D

    parameters

    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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    My friend's D&d wizard, Andrei :D

    parameters

    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

    3
    what caused you to get into Linux?
  • easier Stable Diffusion setup

  • Aarakocra Winter Ranger

    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

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    Atheists, is there anything religious that sticks with you to this day?
  • 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.

  • Atheists, is there anything religious that sticks with you to this day?
  • 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. [...]"

  • What single purchase has returned the most in terms of value?
  • 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

  • What single purchase has returned the most in terms of value?
  • I went through the ISOs myself rather than going to a technician and paying for the service + the OS

  • The Lemmy experience
  • 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

  • Windows [Rule]
  • Snap packages and Red Hat turning Open Source stuff into Closed Source.

  • Briar opinions?
  • Ye she was just buffed on an emergency patch.

  • What's something that you were surprised to find out a lot of people hate?
  • No, separated. I'm not some kind of savage.

  • Where do I meet teens/young adults nowadays?
  • 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!

  • Where do I meet teens/young adults nowadays?
  • 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.

  • Where do I meet teens/young adults nowadays?
  • 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.

  • Where do I meet teens/young adults nowadays?
  • 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 :)

  • Where do I meet teens/young adults nowadays?

    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.

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    What's something that you were surprised to find out a lot of people hate?
  • Cold weather because I'm tired of drenching in sweat and would rather have constant rainfall lmao

  • Briar opinions?
  • Probably. I suspect she isn't a fight starter/pickoff like how I see her being played rn.

  • Briar opinions?

    She has like a 36.7% WR going for her I think rn? My impression is that she is trying to do warwick but is too squishy to do warwick, which makes her very easily duelable in the jungle with a lethality build and a healstopper (I play Poppy)

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    What made you determined to leave Twitter?
  • How do you find communities for this thing? I only hit a lot of erotica and japanese-chinese groups.

  • Globetrotter Challenge Compositions

    Hi, did this thread mostly for myself and friends. Counted champs in lanes with 2k+ games in op.gg (or above 0% popularity in LeagueOfGraphs when op.gg's server was down).

    If you don't know, this is the Globetrotter challenge. It consists of winning games with a premade party of five where only champions from a single region are used. It's a fun team exercise :)

    It is organized like this:

    LANE: Primary-role champions (recommended)

    | secondary-role champions

    || people play this, I guess??? (viable but weak)

    Here it goes:

    IXTAL

    Malphite, Milio, Neeko, Nidalee, Qiyana, Rengar, Zyra

    TOP: Malphite | Rengar || Neeko, Nidalee, Qiyana

    JUNGLE: Nidalee, Rengar | Zyra || Malphite, Neeko, Qiyana

    MID: Neeko, Qiyana | Malphite

    SUP: Milio, Zyra | Neeko

    ADC:

    • Your main issue in Ixtal is that there is no ADC. Qiyana should be the best one as she snowballs, but she is also very hard to play. Statistics says Neeko is the most played of the seven in ADC role, but it's a low number of games and may also just be indicative that Neeko is a champion with high pick rate, period. Overall I would go into alt pick because it's so FUBAR the champion wouldn't really matter. Bot lane, play safe and don't feed.

    BANDLETREE

    Corki, Fizz, Gnar, Heimerdinger, Kennen, Kled, Lulu, Poppy, Rumble, Teemo, Tristana, Veigar, Vex, Yuumi, Ziggs

    TOP: Gnar, Kennen, Kled, Poppy, Rumble, Teemo | Heimerdinger || Tristana, Veigar

    JUNGLE: | Poppy, Rumble || Teemo

    MID: Corki, Fizz, Veigar, Vex | Kennen, Rumble, Tristana, Heimerdinger, Ziggs || Gnar, Kled, Poppy, Teemo

    SUP: Heimerdinger, Lulu, Yuumi || Poppy, Teemo, Veigar, Ziggs

    ADC: Tristana, Ziggs | Veigar || Heimerdinger

    • Pretty viable.

    BILGEWATER

    Fizz, Gangplank, Graves, Illaoi, Miss Fortune, Nautilus, Nilah, Pyke, Tahm Kench, Twisted Fate

    TOP: Gangplank, Illaoi, Tahm Kench || Fizz, Graves, Nautilus

    JUNGLE: Graves

    MID: Fizz, Twisted Fate | Gangplank || Graves, Illaoi, Pyke

    ADC: Miss Fortune, Nilah

    SUP: Nautilus, Pyke || Miss Fortune, Tahm Kench

    • Not only viable but strong-ish. Color me impressed? A warning: Graves has a very high ban rate. Go blind pick if you must.

    DEMACIA

    Fiora, Galio, Garen, Jarvan IV, Kayle, Lucian, Lux, Morgana, Poppy, Quinn, Shyvana, Sona, Sylas, Vayne, Xin Zhao

    TOP: Fiora, Kayle, Quinn | Poppy, Shyvana, Sylas, Vayne || Galio, Jarvan IV, Xin Zhao

    JUNGLE: Jarvan IV, Poppy, Shyvana, Xin Zhao | Sylas || Morgana\*

    MID: Galio, Lux, Sylas | Kayle || Fiora, Jarvan IV, Lucian, Morgana, Quinn, Shyvana, Vayne, Xin Zhao

    ADC: Lucian, Vayne

    SUP: Morgana, Sona | Galio, Lux, Poppy || Jarvan IV, Sylas

    \* Below 2k games on op.gg but I have a friend that seriously play this and he says it's viable lol.

    • Who would say that Demacia champions were so versatile? Also, Lucian and Vayne have both quite low ban rates.

    PILTOVER

    Caitlyn, Camille, Corki, Ezreal, Heimerdinger, Jayce, Orianna, Seraphine, Vi

    TOP: Camille, Jayce | Heimerdinger || Ezreal

    JUNGLE: Vi

    MID: Corki, Heimerdinger, Orianna | Jayce, Seraphine || Caitlyn, Ezreal, Vi

    ADC: Caitlyn, Ezreal | Seraphine

    SUP: Heimerdinger, Seraphine

    • Vi and Heimerdinger have <1% banrates. You can go alt pick pretty safely.

    SHADOW ISLES

    Elise, Evelynn, Fiddlesticks, Gwen, Hecarim, Kallista, Karthus, Maokai, Senna, Thresh, Viego, Yorick

    TOP: Gwen, Maokai, Yorick || Fiddlesticks, Karthus, Senna, Viego

    JUNGLE: Elise, Evelynn, Fiddlesticks, Hecarim, Karthus, Maokai, Viego || Gwen

    MID: | Karthus || Fiddlesticks, Gwen, Viego

    ADC: Kallista | Karthus || Senna*

    SUP: Senna, Thresh | Fiddlesticks, Karthus, Maokai

    \* 40% winrate. Only if you're desperate.

    • For some reason Vex and Kindred aren't here, because then your ADC could play Karthus or Kindred instead of Kallista. Other than that, that's a pretty fun region for everyone but your ADC!

    SHURIMA

    Akshan, Amumu, Azir, K'Sante, Naafiri, Nasus, Rammus, Renekton, Sivir, Skarner, Taliyah, Xerath, Zilean

    TOP: K'Sante, Nasus, Renekton | Akshan, Naafiri || Azir, Rammus, Skarner

    JUNGLE: Rammus, Skarner, Taliyah | Naafiri

    MID: Akshan, Azir, Naafiri | Taliyah, Xerath || K'Sante, Nasus, Renekton, Sivir, Zilean

    ADC: Sivir || Taliyah, Xerath

    SUP: Xerath, Zilean || Taliyah

    • Some really simple and some really complex champions, which makes it a bit odd. Naafiri is very flexible but also has the highest banrate of the patch.

    TARGON

    Aphelios, Aurelion Sol, Diana, Leona, Pantheon, Soraka, Taric, Zoe

    TOP: Pantheon || Aurelion Sol

    JUNGLE: Diana || Pantheon, Taric

    MID: Aurelion Sol, Zoe | Diana, Pantheon

    ADC: Aphelios || Aurelion Sol

    SUP: Leona, Pantheon, Soraka, Taric || Zoe

    • Limited pool of inflexible champions will make many cry blind pick. However, if you notice, this cast has a low ban rate (highest being Leona at 4.7%).

    FRELJORD

    Anivia, Ashe, Braum, Gnar, Gragas, Lissandra, Nunu&Willump, Olaf, Ornn, Sejuani, Trundle, Tryndamere, Udyr, Volibear

    TOP: Gnar, Olaf, Ornn, Trundle, Tryndamere, Volibear | Gragas || Anivia, Lissandra, Sejuani, Udyr

    JUNGLE: Gragas, Nunu, Sejuani, Udyr | Trundle, Volibear || Olaf, Tryndamere\*

    MID: Anivia, Lissandra | Gragas || Gnar, Nunu, Ornn, Tryndamere, Volibear

    ADC: Ashe

    SUP: Braum | Gragas || Anivia, Ashe, Lissandra, Nunu, Ornn, Sejuani, Trundle

    \* <40% winrate, don't unless you are really good at him

    • Did you like making do with an adc in Ixtal? I hope your adc also did, since Ashe has a 11.42% banrate. Seriously, go blind pick. Help Ashe unify the tribes after all those years.

    IONIA

    Ahri, Akali, Irelia, Ivern, Jhin, Karma, Kayn, Kennen, Lee Sin, Lilia, Master Yi, Rakan, Sett, Shen, Syndra, Varus, Wukong, Xayah, Yasuo, Yone, Zed

    TOP: Irelia, Kennen, Sett, Shen | Akali, Wukong, Yone, Zed || Ahri, Karma, Kayn, Lee Sin\*, Lillia, Master Yi, Syndra, Varus, Yasuo

    JUNGLE: Ivern, Kayn, Lillia, Master Yi, Wukong | Zed || Lee Sin

    MID: Ahri, Akali, Syndra, Yasuo, Yone, Zed | Irelia || Karma, Kennen, Lee Sin\*, Sett, Varus, Wukong

    ADC: Jhin, Varus, Xayah || Syndra, Yasuo, Yone

    SUP: Karma, Rakan || Kennen, Lee Sin\, Sett, Shen, Yasuo\

    \* Lee Sin is kinda shit at anything that isn't Jungle. Top makes do, but Mid and Sup do not. \* <40% Winrate. You got plenty of better choices, Yasuo mains.

    • I think the champions are a bit hard to learn, but at least you got plenty of choices.

    NOXUS

    Cassiopeia, Darius, Draven, Katarina, Kled, LeBlanc, Rell, Riven, Samira, Sion, Swain, Talon, Vladimir

    TOP: Darius, Kled, Riven, Sion | Vladimir || Cassiopeia, Katarina, LeBlanc, Swain, Talon

    JUNGLE: | Talon || Rell, Riven*, Sion

    MID: Cassiopeia, Katarina, LeBlanc, Talon, Vladimir || Darius, Kled, Riven, Samira, Sion, Swain

    ADC: Draven, Samira || Cassiopeia, Sion, Swain

    SUP: Swain || LeBlanc, Rell, Sion

    \* <40% winrate. Those days are long gone.

    • Congratulations, Sion, you're the only one together with Karthus to fit all lanes! Seriously now, Samira is a super strong snowball. Noxus trolls Jungle and Support a bit, but Talon did worse.

    VOID

    Bel'Veth, Cho'Gath, Kai'Sa, Kassadin, Kha'Zix, Kog'Maw, Malzahar, Rek'Sai, Vel'Koz

    TOP: Cho'Gath || Bel'Veth, Kassadin, Malzahar, Rek'Sai

    JUNGLE: Bel'Veth, Kha'Zix, Rek'Sai

    MID: Kassadin, Malzahar | Cho'Gath, Vel'Koz || Kai'Sa, Kog'Maw

    ADC: Kai'Sa, Kog'Maw || Malzahar, Vel'Koz

    SUP: Vel'Koz || Bel'Veth, Cho'Gath, Malzahar

    • Pretty smooth. Nothing to add.

    ZAUM

    Blitzcrank, Dr. Mundo, Ekko, Janna, Jinx, Renata Glasc, Singed, Twitch, Urgot, Viktor, Warwick, Zac, Zeri, Ziggs

    TOP: Dr. Mundo, Singed, Urgot | Warwick, Zac || Ekko, Viktor

    JUNGLE: Ekko, Warwick, Zac || Dr. Mundo, Singed, Twitch*

    MID: Viktor, Ziggs | Ekko || Singed, Twitch, Urgot, Zac, Zeri

    ADC: Jinx, Twitch, Zeri | Ziggs || Viktor

    SUP: Blitzcrank, Janna, Renata Glasc || Singed, Twitch, Zac, Ziggs

    \* 41% winrate. You have better picks.

    • Zaum I love, because there are tutorial-level champions to play in every role. I recommend you start here (or in whatever region you have more mains for in your premade).
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    Do mtf shelters have any need for small clothing?

    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?

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    cute dogs, cats, and other animals @lemmy.ml Abel @lemmy.nerdcore.social
    Territorial, anxious dog or both?

    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.

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    The quest for a Borzoi Knight

    Those pictures were using img2img, and a sketch of mines as a base:

    AI not understanding what a portrait is

    ! ! ! ! ! !

    --- 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:

    not bad, but not a borzoi

    ! ! ! !

    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.

    fluffy!

    !

    Were we begin to see better results, but I dialed the fur part to "fluffy long fur" and also put in "long thin snout"

    yeah only reptilians have snouts

    !

    I added "dragonborn" to the negative prompt (this is a D&D portrait model, after all) and immediately saw better results:

    dogs are back!

    ! !

    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):

    solid results!

    !

    The results are surprisingly better outside img2img.

    Added "watermark" to the negative prompt, brought it to 50 steps in DPM++ 2MK.

    photorealistic much?

    !

    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.

    nope, it gave me even bodier shots

    !

    Just as a treat, I switched "paladin" back to "knight". Maybe it would give me different results outside img2img?

    I got a lot of metal snout sillyness, but this is the funniest one.

    !

    Back to "paladin", I also removed some keyword smashing from the prompt (shit like "high detail" and stuff I originally copied from somewhere else).

    Results got much more consistent. Don't litter your prompts!

    !

    Also told it to give me a pencil portrait, just for fun.

    Not bad, but you can see the AI was struggling against the model.

    !

    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.

    Not bad, but you can see the AI was struggling against the model.

    !

    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.

    blurry

    !

    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:

    bad quality, but right vibe

    !

    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.

    not a borzoi

    !

    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.

    somewhat more borzoi-like

    !

    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 ```

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    Help me with an email provider!

    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,

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    Abel Abel @lemmy.nerdcore.social

    I'm very inactive here.

    Hi, I'm Abel, an autistic trans brazilian compsci student.

    Hobbies: TTRPGs, board games, literature, AI artwork.

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