Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

[neogunhero]

Look at this image of the upcoming Apple CarPlay Ultra:

Spoiler: Apple CarPlay Ultra

That album cover, that has to be AI. Out of curiosity I looked up the artist and song name, but absolutely nothing came up. I don't have Apple Music so I can't look there, but there's no reason an artist would restrict their music to one platform. Just strange, it could just be a fake mockup rather than generated AI, but Apple typically lists real music in promo shots like this for their products, and I've actually found good music that way before.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Look at this image of the upcoming Apple CarPlay Ultra:

Spoiler: Apple CarPlay Ultra

That album cover, that has to be AI. Out of curiosity I looked up the artist and song name, but absolutely nothing came up. I don't have Apple Music so I can't look there, but there's no reason an artist would restrict their music to one platform. Just strange, it could just be a fake mockup rather than generated AI, but Apple typically lists real music in promo shots like this for their products, and I've actually found good music that way before.

Could be. It has bizarre shading like AI pictures.

It's little confusing because it looks like they tried to make some lines gold and failed. Gold is nearly impossible to make unless your art program specifically has a plugin for it, and neither Photoshop nor Corel have that natively, which is odd because all you need to be able to do is add reflection. I'm not great with Photoshop, so it's possible that it can do it, and I just never figured it out.

AI also sometimes fails to make gold, especially if you've listed multiple colors that you want. If I had my old laptop out, I could show you an example of where Flux was supposed to make gold and it ended up looking almost exactly like the color in the picture.

Of course, that may not have been intended to be gold. It just reminds me of all my failed attempts through the years

 

[Zed Clampet]

Why did Windows stop automatically putting your downloads into the Download folder?

 

[BeardyHat]

Why did Windows stop automatically putting your downloads into the Download folder?

None of my installs do that? Wonder if it's related to OneDrive; Microsoft likes to try and force you to use it, so it enables it by default and you need to go turn it off.

They'll automatically save all your Documents, Pictures, etc to the OneDrive variants of local folders, so they can "encourage" you to buy more space...

 

[Zed Clampet]

None of my installs do that? Wonder if it's related to OneDrive; Microsoft likes to try and force you to use it, so it enables it by default and you need to go turn it off.

They'll automatically save all your Documents, Pictures, etc to the OneDrive variants of local folders, so they can "encourage" you to buy more space...

It's actually using whatever folder was used last. Not the last folder for downloads. Literally whatever folder was used by anything last.

 

[Zloth]

It's actually using whatever folder was used last. Not the last folder for downloads. Literally whatever folder was used by anything last.

The program gets to decide. The Downloads folder is just one of the OS-defined folders it can pick from. Though I don't know how different programs would know what the last directory was in another program. I don't think anyone bothers to change the "current directory" anymore.

 

[Zed Clampet]

The program gets to decide. The Downloads folder is just one of the OS-defined folders it can pick from. Though I don't know how different programs would know what the last directory was in another program. I don't think anyone bothers to change the "current directory" anymore.

The odd thing is that I'm using Chrome and it is set to use the 'downloads' folder.

 

[BeardyHat]

The odd thing is that I'm using Chrome and it is set to use the 'downloads' folder.

"Chrome "Downloads" are now stored in the Cloud for your convenience! Please enjoy this 30-second ad before accessing stored files."

 

[Zed Clampet]

"Chrome "Downloads" are now stored in the Cloud for your convenience! Please enjoy this 30-second ad before accessing stored files."

That would be weird.

 

[Zed Clampet]

May have to go to the hospital. I think my cold has turned into pneumonia, and I'm having trouble breathing. I'm going to try desperately to avoid that.

 

[BeardyHat]

May have to go to the hospital. I think my cold has turned into pneumonia, and I'm having trouble breathing. I'm going to try desperately to avoid that.

Good luck, Zed. Hoping everything goes well for you, send us an update!

 

[Frindis]

Hope it goes over soon @Zed Clampet!

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

I heard pneumonia isnt good for you, try and avoid it if possible.

 

[Colif]

That album cover, that has to be AI. Out of curiosity I looked up the artist and song name, but absolutely nothing came up

given only results for the names are from that ad, I would have to think its just a mock up.

It's actually using whatever folder was used last. Not the last folder for downloads. Literally whatever folder was used by anything last.

that sounds like a bug.

is this 10 or 11?

Most programs are downloaded to that location as its controlled by windows, its only at the install stage they can choose/make other folders.

right click start button
choose powershell (admin)
copy/paste this command into window:
Repair-WindowsImage -Online -RestoreHealth

and press enter

Then type SFC /scannow

and press enter

Restart PC if SFC fixes any files as some fixes require a restart to be implemented
First command repairs the files SFC uses to clean files, and SFC fixes system files
SFC = System File Checker. First command runs DISM - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/what-is-dism?view=windows-11

If windows 11, same thing works, just different steps getting to Powershell
right click start
choose Terminal (admin)
If it opens as Command Prompt, click the drop down arrow in the title row and pick Powershell from it

I don't know what else would cause windows to let you save wherever... the default folder is set in registry. Its location is locked as a lot of drivers use it for install and if they go wrong places things hit the fan.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Soon after I posted about possibly going to the hospital, my asthma medicine kicked in a bit, and I was breathing a little easier, so I decided not to go. With most of the hospitals in town, the emergency rooms are usually awful, but on Friday nights they are like a MASH unit, and so I would have gone to another hospital my insurance doesn't pay for, and that would have been annoying to deal with later.

I called my primary care physician and asked for him to send in a prescription for a nebulizer and some liquid albuterol. Hopefully he'll do that. Other than that, I'm going to continue to OD on my asthma meds, and go see my doctor on Monday (I have to agree to do that as a bargaining chip for him sending in prescriptions on the weekend )

 

[Pifanjr]

Soon after I posted about possibly going to the hospital, my asthma medicine kicked in a bit, and I was breathing a little easier, so I decided not to go. With most of the hospitals in town, the emergency rooms are usually awful, but on Friday nights they are like a MASH unit, and so I would have gone to another hospital my insurance doesn't pay for, and that would have been annoying to deal with later.

I called my primary care physician and asked for him to send in a prescription for a nebulizer and some liquid albuterol. Hopefully he'll do that. Other than that, I'm going to continue to OD on my asthma meds, and go see my doctor on Monday (I have to agree to do that as a bargaining chip for him sending in prescriptions on the weekend )

I hope you get well soon. Pneumonia can be pretty nasty.

 

[Zed Clampet]

This is so ridiculous and unhelpful for people who don't know better. The Internet hive mind is amazing. So I asked some people on Discord, just because I had an idea of what they were going to say, how to caption a picture of a superhero I made for Flux training. To paraphrase, this was their collective answer, which I then used out of curiosity on a 10 epoch training:

"A shadow in the neon haze, moving between worlds—silent, swift, unstoppable. The city whispers their name, but no one truly knows who they are. When danger rises, so does he—swift as the wind, silent as the storm, a guardian unseen but always watching. He fights not for glory, not for recognition—but for the ones who never had a voice. The city's last hope, masked in shadow."

wtf. Seriously? That's twice as bad as I was expecting. What is this even supposed to accomplish? Here's my caption:

"Bob the superhero"

...which I then used on a 10 epoch training. It wasn't even close. "Bob the superhero" won in a landslide. The pictures were much more consistently identifiable of the superhero I made (using Flux).

 

[Zed Clampet]

This is so ridiculous and unhelpful for people who don't know better. The Internet hive mind is amazing. So I asked some people on Discord, just because I had an idea of what they were going to say, how to caption a picture of a superhero I made for Flux training. To paraphrase, this was their collective answer, which I then used out of curiosity on a 10 epoch training:

"A shadow in the neon haze, moving between worlds—silent, swift, unstoppable. The city whispers their name, but no one truly knows who they are. When danger rises, so does he—swift as the wind, silent as the storm, a guardian unseen but always watching. He fights not for glory, not for recognition—but for the ones who never had a voice. The city's last hope, masked in shadow."

wtf. Seriously? That's twice as bad as I was expecting. What is this even supposed to accomplish? Here's my caption:

"Bob the superhero"

...which I then used on a 10 epoch training. It wasn't even close. "Bob the superhero" won in a landslide. The pictures were much more consistently identifiable of the superhero I made (using Flux).

Never mind. I'm both dumb and pretentious, which is a hilarious combination.

There are millions of people who use Flux to make pictures. There are probably less than 500 of us who actually train it. These people were probably trying to give me a prompt (to make a picture) instead of a caption (to train a picture). Why would they know the difference?

In that case they did an excellent job.

 

[Zloth]

He fights not for glory, not for recognition—but for the ones who never had a voice.

A hero that fights for the mute?? Well, it's original...

 

[Zed Clampet]

The two major problems with trying to train Flux to create Americana folk art are:

1) It doesn't understand poorly drawn animals; therefore, it just creates abominations.

2) It doesn't understand poorly drawn water, so it just puts it anywhere

Overall, the pictures are just so busy with things that Flux doesn't understand that it's hard to ever get it to draw a picture that is exactly right.

 

[Colif]

A hero that fights for the mute?? Well, it's original...

they must have written it down for him, as how does he know what they want to say? Fighting for those who can't talk is a great way to basically do whatever you want

 

[Zed Clampet]

Occasionally we've mentioned the odd thing that cheese in the US is yellow. Turns out, it started in England in the 13th century. Cheese and butter made from milk that was taken during the summer when the cattle got all its food from grass was a golden yellow in color, but in winter it was white because they weren't getting the beta carotene from grass. People started to associate the yellow color with higher quality, so farmers started dying all their butter yellow, and later cheese was added to that. This practice was brought to the US and Kraft and a few others continue the practice, although much of the cheese in the store I go to is just white. Butter, on the other hand, is always yellow.

 

[neogunhero]

Occasionally we've mentioned the odd thing that cheese in the US is yellow. Turns out, it started in England in the 13th century. Cheese and butter made from milk that was taken during the summer when the cattle got all its food from grass was a golden yellow in color, but in winter it was white because they weren't getting the beta carotene from grass. People started to associate the yellow color with higher quality, so farmers started dying all their butter yellow, and later cheese was added to that. This practice was brought to the US and Kraft and a few others continue the practice, although much of the cheese in the store I go to is just white. Butter, on the other hand, is always yellow.

That's funny how the yellow color started, because these days I think most people think of yellow cheese as being lower quality, apart from cheddar, which of course it typically is. What other kind of cheese can you buy ten slices of for only $1?

 

[Frindis]

Maybe farmers could just use genetic modification enhancing beta-carotene levels in cows’ milk. That or just get yellow cows?

 

[BeardyHat]

Occasionally we've mentioned the odd thing that cheese in the US is yellow. Turns out, it started in England in the 13th century. Cheese and butter made from milk that was taken during the summer when the cattle got all its food from grass was a golden yellow in color, but in winter it was white because they weren't getting the beta carotene from grass. People started to associate the yellow color with higher quality, so farmers started dying all their butter yellow, and later cheese was added to that. This practice was brought to the US and Kraft and a few others continue the practice, although much of the cheese in the store I go to is just white. Butter, on the other hand, is always yellow.

This is interesting, thanks. Also funny, as @neogunhero pointed out the irony of the situation; much like how lobster used to be perceived as peasant food.

No one wants to buy my old laptop for some reason and I'm not sure why. I even threw the 512Gb drive back in and dropped the price, since the 2Tb disk just wasn't the draw I thought it was. And yeah, I am asking a higher price, but it has the specs to back it up, based on the other sold listings I see on eBay, I'm actually one of the lower priced units, given I'm also offering free shipping.

But no one wants my eGPU enclosure either, at a pretty solidly discounted price also with free shipping.

I still owe $380 on my new computer via PayPal Credit and I shouldn't have any issues paying that off by October, even if neither of these things sell. So I'm kind of wondering if I might as well just keep the computer and use it as my portable option, even though I rarely travel. I've been enjoying using my Surface Go around the house the past few weeks, but it would be nice if it had a better keyboard and slightly more power, like that other computer I'm trying to sell...

But what the hell am I going to do with 3 laptops now?