[-] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 days ago

Im currently in between jobs, dreading going back to work because of everything you described. I kind of want to copy paste your post onto my cover letter and just see what happens. somethings gotta change though because going back to the status quo of micro managing bs is too much to bear atm.

[-] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 days ago

Yeah, I got all those plus a bunch of furry stuff and all kinds of kink accounts. Blueskys block and filters are really good though and it took me all of 30 mins of marking posts as "show me less of this" and blocking obvious bots. Haven't had an issue since, really.

[-] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 days ago

Maybe Voldermort was onto something?

[-] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 15 points 6 days ago

Its been 5 hours, I think they are lost to the annals of the anals.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

So this might be a weird one because I can just look this up anywhere, but Ive been dealing with some vexing medical problems the past year and I just want to see how allergies affect others. Maybe hearing from regular people instead of doctors will ease my mind a bit. A little back-story on my issue (though I'm not looking for a diagnosis), almost exactly a year ago I developed sever constant chronic rhino-sinusitis. I am constantly having to clear my throat and snort/sniffle. Its non stop every 30 seconds or so and no matter what combo of meds I take for allergies, nothing really helps. I have never had allergies before (that i know of) and all of a sudden, after well over 40 years on this earth, I'm allergic to everything. And I do have allergies. According to the test I took a few months ago, I tested positive for 45 out of 50 allergens they tested for. To make a long story short, every doctor I go to says its allergies. Says to get allergy shots and keep taking sprays and pills everyday etc. Nothing brings me any relief. I'm on the strongest sprays that are killing my sinuses and multiple 24hr allergy pills (Doctor ordered), and its almost like I'm not taking anything. So my questions to you wonderful people:

  • What do allergies feel like for you?
  • Are they constant or do you have flareups?
  • Do meds help you significantly?
  • Am I just being a big baby and how I feel is just what allergies feel like?

I know this is subjective and everyone will have different answers and that's fine. Honestly, I don't really have anyone to bounce ideas off of and talk about this, so this is as much a way for me to scream into the void and vent, as it is to gather info. Again, I'm not looking for a diagnosis, just your personal anecdotes so I can put my own situation into perspective. Love all of you peeps, thanks in advance for any replies!

Edit- Mods, I realize this kinda flirts with rule 3, please feel free to remove it if you so deem.

[-] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 123 points 2 months ago

Long ago, way back in highschool, I worked at a restaurant part time. We would get a few of those fake bills every weekend and every Monday on my way to school I would take a small detour to the church who was passing them out and dumped them in their donations bin. I doubt it made any difference but it made me feel better at least.

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I recently set up a LLM to run locally on my desktop. Now that the novelty of setting it up and playing with different settings has worn off, I'm struggling to come up with actual uses for it. What do you use it for when not doing work stuff?

[-] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 89 points 8 months ago

When I saw this news yesterday, it made me realize I hadn't used Reddit almost at all since the purge last summer. I ran the PowerDelete tool last night to nuke my profile and then deleted my account this morning. 10 years of posts and comments gone but ill be damned if im going to let those posts stay and train AI to make this douche canoe any more money.

[-] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 104 points 9 months ago

Oh yeah totally free, just go ahead and put in all your info... Oh, looks like your at the last step and have spent a bunch of your time filling everything out. Oh darn! Look at that, you need to do something very basic that 99% of people need to do? Yeah that will be 75 bucks please.

TurboTax is nothing more than a "Legal" scam that pulls a bait and switch to steal money from people.

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Why do I do this? (sopuli.xyz)
[-] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 96 points 1 year ago

I used to have so much fun back when cell phones had IR blasters. Changing channels and messing with people before it was common knowledge that you could do that on a cell. I wish phones still had that.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz to c/risa@startrek.website

Mod removed my first post because "AI 'art' is for Borgs". So here is a real life version!

[-] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 121 points 1 year ago

"...and their principal, Asfendis, has vowed to raise awareness on campus of how to use new technologies responsibly."

Surely all the teenage boys will understand, and only use the technology for wholesome purposes.

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Happpy HHalllloween! (files.catbox.moe)

Happy Halloween everyone! Had some fun with a random Mad-lib style prompt and inserting "holding a sign saying Happy Halloween". The Text, of course isn't the greatest but, not that bad actually. The AI really likes jackolanterns with the Halloween keyword. Every image had tons of jackolanterns even though I didn't tell it to. The Prompt was "Adj Adj Random-Monster, holding a sign that says happy Halloween. By Random-Artist and Random-Artist." Here are a few more of the better ones:

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[-] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 101 points 1 year ago

Ive been in this situation before and it SUCKS! I was delivering pizza ages ago and was on my way to a delivery when a cop pulled me over. I wasn't doing anything wrong so I was kind of confused, but pulled into a parking lot and parked. The cops got out and immediately pulled their guns on me and took cover behind their cruiser. Within seconds, there were 4 more cop cars pulled up and surrounding my car. I had 5 cop cars surrounding my car and at least 7 cops all with their guns aimed at me and screaming at me to get out of the car. I was freaking out! Ive dealt with anxiety issues my whole life and this caused me to have a huge panic attack, which pissed the cops off more, because it took me a minute to comply. It wasn't till I was face down on the asphalt (in the rain btw), till one of the cops said something like "hes just a pizza dude, this isn't him", and all the cops got back in their cars a sped off. It took me a good 15mins before i was able to catch my breath and calm down from my panic attack, and hours after that before i could stop shaking. To this day, anytime a cop gets behind me, I start having anxiety attacks and have to consciously try to calm myself down.

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A story in two parts (files.catbox.moe)

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Psychedelic Bigfoot (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz to c/imageai@sh.itjust.works

I was generating a bunch of random monster and scifi related stuff using only wildcards, and got this image. I felt it needed to be shared.

Prompt and model usedA fearsome semi-abstract Psychedelic bigfoot. by gregg booth,david s. goyer, cyberspace, science fiction science fantasy, Dazzling, Realistic, high detail, photo-realistic, best quality, Highres, Natural lighting, early morning, shadow play, HD, Absurdres, 8k UHD, best quality, sharp focus Negative prompt: dull colors, monochrome, blurry, out of focus, grainy, bad quality, bad anatomy, pubic hair, disembodied limbs, merged body parts, bad teeth, too many fingers, body-hair, tattoos, dull eyes, mirrored images, makeup, fake,, watermarks, grainy, artifacting, Steps: 50, Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 1441120469, Size: 1024x768, Model hash: 886c73d806, Model: perfectdeliberate_v40, Token merging ratio: 0.2, NGMS: 0.7, Version: 1.6.0

[-] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 151 points 1 year ago

I wanted to learn more so i went looking for an article. Heres a pretty good write up. https://www.sciencealert.com/flowers-are-spreading-in-antarctica-as-summer-temperatures-soar

TLDR: Lots of flowering plants, moss and algae spreading. In March, temperatures near the south pole reached 39 °C above normal for three days in a row, hitting a peak of -10 °C (14 °F). Warm enough for researchers to walk around in shorts and shirtless....In Antarctica. Yeah were fucked.

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Goblin Trader (i.imgur.com)

Trying out a Goblin LORA with this one. was going for more of a spread of weapons for sale with this Goblin arms dealer, but love his expression. Heres a couple more I liked.

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Model and Prompt usedwidth: 600

height: 800

model: dreamshaper_7

count: 4

guidance: 7.0

steps: 30

sampler: dpmpp_2m_karras

seed: 615447110

upscale: 1

lora1_strength: 0.7

lora2_strength: 0.7

prompt: a (devious scheming greedy tricky pockmarked very-short goblin) (at a weathered black market stall) (selling his wares of wicked rusted swords and daggers)+ In a dimly-lit alley of the goblin city, Isometric view, gritty texture, shadows and highlights, urban environment, atmospheric setting, candid capture, candid moment, moody atmosphere, detailed composition, D&D, dramatic lighting, rugged weaponry, tarnished armor, ambient illumination

negative_prompt: ugly, tiling, poorly drawn hands, poorly drawn feet, poorly drawn face, out of frame, extra limbs, disfigured, deformed, body out of frame, blurry, bad anatomy, blurred, watermark, grainy, signature, cut off, draft, censored, anime, cartoon, fake, plastic skin, doll-like, fake hair, plastic, toy-like, not real, drawn look, large ears, filters, animated look, painting, cell shaded, digital art, pixar, cgi, porcelain, statues, monochrome, black and white, grayscale, colorless, greyscale, black and white, black-and-white, without color, not in color, tintless, drab, fat, pregnant, removed, omitted, multi-color eyes, malformed, misshapen, partner out of frame,

lora1: A65D6C01FA4DC26FEDA4B00B3566ECAFCD1E27EDE4C3A44509

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Fire Starter (i.imgur.com)

I really like how this came out, I didn't originally want the fire but the AI kept adding it with the Tanuki keyword so I leaned into it. It took a while to get though, it kept trying to make the Tanuki a horse and getting the fairy to ride it without it turning lewd or just ignoring the prompt was a pain. Anyone have any tips on that? anyways, heres a few more i liked.

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few more

Model and Promptwidth: 600

height: 800

model: nightmareshaper

count: 4

guidance: 7.0

steps: 40

sampler: ddim

seed: 1015036689

upscale: 1

lora1_strength: 0.7

lora2_strength: 0.7

prompt: a (beautiful powerful pixar-style fairy)+ (Traveling astride an) (armored blazing tanuki) action shot, close up, HD, Sharp Focus, DSLR, high detail, natural lighting, shadow play, High Dynamic Range, Light Falloff, realistic, detailed face, (realistic detailed hair), realistic skin, Artstation, Masterpiece,

negative_prompt: ugly, tiling, poorly drawn hands, poorly drawn feet, poorly drawn face, out of frame, extra limbs, disfigured, deformed, body out of frame, blurry, bad anatomy, blurred, watermark, grainy, signature, cut off, draft, censored, anime, cartoon, fake, plastic skin, doll-like, fake hair, plastic, toy-like, not real, drawn look, large ears, filters, animated look, painting, cell shaded, digital art, pixar, cgi, porcelain, statues, monochrome, black and white, grayscale, colorless, greyscale, black and white, black-and-white, without color, not in color, tintless, drab, fat, pregnant, removed, omitted, multi-color eyes, malformed, misshapen, partner out of frame,

[-] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 112 points 1 year ago

I went to a Korean hot pot place one time and ordered the hottest broth. The waitress, who barely spoke English, asked if I was sure. I said yes and when they brought it out I was sweating buckets but still loved the food. The waitress actually brought out a fan and stuck it next to my table. 10 out of 10, Would sweat again

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The Offer (sopuli.xyz)

The Offer

Its not exactly what I was looking for but I really liked it so I thought Id share.

Prompts and Modelwidth: 600

height: 800

model: nightmareshaper

count: 4

guidance: 7.0

steps: 30

sampler: ddim

seed: 1117925415

upscale: 1

lora1_strength: 1.2

lora2_strength: 0.7

prompt: a (beautiful fair angelic elf sorceress) make a gesture and concentrates and (many glowing floating magic symbols encircle her) while (dark brooding storm clouds with lighting and rain) begin to form over a (dark gloomy gothic castle in the distance). fantasy, sorcery, magic, high detail, natural lighting, shadow play, High Dynamic Range, realistic,

negative_prompt: ugly, tiling, poorly drawn hands, poorly drawn feet, poorly drawn face, out of frame, extra limbs, disfigured, deformed, body out of frame, blurry, bad anatomy, blurred, watermark, grainy, signature, cut off, draft, large ears, pointy ears, big ears, filters, animated look, painting, cell shaded, digital art, pixar, cgi, monochrome, black and white, grayscale, colorless, greyscale, black and white, black-and-white, without color, not in color, tintless,

lora1: Epic Realism A08670315FC5B150FC00279413840CF0353DB778A436B4A

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