#what is GPU

[ms-dos5]

guys check out my new gaming rig

[cybrpnkd]

Vincent || male V › 3/???

[ghostdnfie]

because i was an IT student there are two demons inside me: ones going holy fuck 3 geforce rtx 4090 suprims that must be rlly expensive and powerful. and the other ones going haha geforce looks like george haha dnf

[kaiserouo]

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redid the shadow again because i kinda didn't know what i was doing...? it's a little bit better i guess

[manghoe-art]

its funny using a brush incorrectly destroys my art block, anyways my hc for early s1 pearl

[sycamorre]

Random Hogwarts Legacy Scenery — Around the castle, Forbidden Forest, and Hogsmeade

[magnetictapedatastorage]

kind of want to customize my pc but idk if i have the skills. i don't have any particular benchmarks in mind but i'd like the case to be very bright red, orange, and yellow :)

I wonder if I could just... hand paint a case? and not have all the paint chip off and cause problems

idk, just a rough idea

[parasitoidism]

had to download a bunch of microsoft junk for work and suddenly my computer is running slower coincidence I think not

[dezimaton]

My trust in social media/art sites has been dwindling for a while now

Witnessing dA steal a whole site's worth of art to train it's image generator, informing everyone in post- Knowing that twitter and instagram are likewise training their own generators- and now seeing tumblr implement an opt-out for training data

It's very disheartening to watch the internet communities I've found home bend and twist under the force of scraping for "AI" training

There is just so much bad, but making and sharing art is still one of my favorite things to do. I will still be drawing my freaks, but I'll need time to think about what to do with my personal work...

This blog will change to be fanart only & I'll put more time into finding a comfortable workflow for glaze/nightshade

[virmire]

thinking about it, I do find it a bit weird that the recommended gpu for the veilguard is only an rtx 2070. like great if they’ve optimised it properly, only a plus if it doesn’t require much to run, but compared to the pc specs of something like god of war ragnarok.. a little strange

[impistry]

So I was curious regarding the desktop version of GLAZE after sharing this post, which I did some science and tested it on my PC. Turns out my GPU does NOT really have the power to run this program for each individual image (it took almost 30 min to render a 521kb file at almost the lowest settings, my GPU can not handle a preview, & it gave me an error message in the end because the settings were apparently too low), and I do not have the funds for a new graphics card to run this program. I also do not I think my GPU could handle Nightshade (it's far more GPU usage heavy than GLAZE). Before someone suggests using the web version of GLAZE, I signed up originally when it was first rolled out, and found that a lack of a preview does not allow for you to dial in settings before running it, and it can take a while to email the image to yourself, so it would be a LOT of back and forth with testing settings to find something that works for each individual image.

Below is the comparison of the Glazed vs Unglazed Art that the Desktop version spat out (even with an error):

End result is I do not think this works for comics (at least not monochrome) because the GLAZED version looks rather dirty in comparison. This might be due to the low settings, or it just might get worse the higher you set them (i.e. more noise added to the image), but my GPU really struggled with just the bare bones settings and going higher only increases the time it needs to run.

[onestepbackwards]

My new monitor broke :')

[ilikedetectives]

Me after Black Friday shopping: My wallet!!! *clench chest*

[gender-trash]

every single ubuntu laptop i have ever used, and i have used many, has been 99% totally functional and normal except for one bizarre and usually intermittent problem (different one every time), which i halfheartedly attempt to fix with no success every so often but mostly just resign myself to experiencing. my current work laptop occasionally freezes (display won't update, but if i ssh in everything seems normal; so far i haven't discovered anything that fixes it, including attempting to restart the display manager over ssh, short of a hard reboot) when connected to a particular breed of usb-c hub my work buys for everyone. at one internship, my work laptop would shut down instead of waking from sleep about one time in 20. with the laptop i had at my google internship occasionally the login lock screen would just fucking not let me log in and i'd have to ssh in from another computer and restart nautilus, which was annoying bc they were quite strict abt locking the screen if you stepped away for 0.5 seconds and i was spending a lot of time hiding in the bathroom that summer for unrelated reasons. the laptop i had at one of my random undergrad research jobs was some stupid gamer bullshit with a beefy gpu (for ML stuff) and a tiny-ass display resolution that i had to manually change every time i rebooted it so text would be readable, because the settings for some reason didn't persist. meanwhile every ubuntu DESKTOP i've ever used has been normal and fine

(dns is broken on my current personal laptop if i'm not connected to protonvpn unless i additionally use nmcli to disconnect a particular network interface every time it wakes from sleep, but this is 1. probably something i did by accident while iterating through every wrong way to set up the vpn and 2. technically it's pop!os so it shouldn't count towards Wack Ubuntu Problems.)

[weirderscience]

apparently i have been running my graphics card without a fan control override for over a year and thats why its been acting up so bad

[underscoreleah]

making what is quite possibly the game of all time