Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

[Colif]

we had 28.4mm of rain last night, in 2 hours. Mum could hear it hitting the side of the house, and I could hear it hitting the wall behind me. I jokingly said during the rain that we were floating down the road now

We had a static thunderstorm that sat on us for 2 hours. It just appeared over us as I had been watching the weather. The First lightning strike was in our suburb and caused me to turn PC off fast.

It caused damage throughout the area, washed away a foot bridge over a creek here and tore up concrete on the same creek as the creek is generally controlled. Flash floods have killed people along it before

Flood - Woden Valley, ACT 1971 | Australian Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub

On 26 January 1971, a super cell thunderstorm caused widespread flooding in the Woden Valley in Canberra's south-east. The rainfall started at approximately 7:30pm-7:50pm; up to 100 millimetres was recorded in one hour by private rain gauges in the suburbs of Farrer and Torrens.

knowledge.aidr.org.au

That one caused a complete redesign of all the roads along the creek so that they were all above it at all times. Cars got washed down the creek for a large distance. It was concreted along its entire length until the oval at the end of my street.

The amount of rain flowing from our gutters broke part of the downpipe

Mind you, we have it easy this week compared to others

I am wrong about two taps, we have a cold/hot choice but they all come through the one outlet. So we have to waste cold to get to hot. And be careful if someone just used hot when you expecting cold. And showers can be fun as well.

 

[Zloth]

we had 28.4mm of rain last night, in 2 hours.

Did you lose a factor of 10 there? You can get flooding in a desert canyon with that level of rain, but...

 

[Zed Clampet]

When I say 'Dwarf', I speak of these. When I say, "Don't mess with the Dwarves," I also speak of these."

Spoiler: My idea of a dwarf....

@BeardyHat I taught Flux (via a LoRA) how to make Dwarves (my kind, anyway). I mention this because we were talking about flux making short people children. I'm doing halflings next.

 

[Zloth]

His chin is practically bald! Now this is a dwarf:

 

[Zed Clampet]

His chin is practically bald! Now this is a dwarf:

What's that from, Snow White? I would like for your dwarf to inform my dwarf that his beard is insufficient, and lets see how that turns out.

Dwarves have long beards so they aren't mistaken for children. Mine are a different kind of dwarf. No one mistakes them for children, so they don't need the comic relief of an enormous beard.

 

[BeardyHat]

When I say 'Dwarf', I speak of these. When I say, "Don't mess with the Dwarves," I also speak of these."

Spoiler: My idea of a dwarf....

@BeardyHat I taught Flux (via a LoRA) how to make Dwarves (my kind, anyway). I mention this because we were talking about flux making short people children. I'm doing halflings next.

Someday I'll figure out how to train.

What do you primarily use your image generation for? I would be curious to do more with mine, but the only thing I really ever use image gen for is to make stupid pictures to send to my friends.

I did recently get a new battery backup for my server though, after the last one failed, which prompted me to setup my Qwen instance to serve my entire network. It's cool to be able to talk to my local AI across my network on my phone. Next step is to get my VPN setup so I can get use my PiHole while I'm out and about, as well as talk to Qwen.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Someday I'll figure out how to train.

What do you primarily use your image generation for?

I'm actually more into training so that others can make pictures. There have been an ungodly number of pictures made with my training, which kind of makes me feel useful in retirement.

So I spend most of my time making digital art for training. It doesn't have to be good art. You can take my mediocre art and feed it into Flux (but now especially Flux 2), and if you are patient enough and iterate enough, you can turn your mediocre art into a great picture that can be used for training.

For the art I generate for myself, it's usually for one of my many game projects that I'm not going to finish. I started them before everyone started hating AI. Where we are right now, I don't plan to bother finishing them, even though no one would know the difference. I throw away anything that isn't perfect. I'm still working on them, but I don't plan to do anything with them.