Category: Technology
Artifacts
As I play around with Easy Diffusion, I’ve been reminded of something that happened fairly often when I was working with Blender on a regular basis: rendering artifacts. Artifacts happen when there is a problem between what the user thinks they told the software to create and what it actually does. In the case of…
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The Girl from Ipanema
It’s sort of crazy how quickly I’ve become addicted to using Easy Diffusion. Just a few days ago I found out about it and less than a week later I’m able to turn out images like this one. Reading about the passing of Astrud Gilberto a few days ago, I used the first verse of…
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Create images with Easy Diffusion AI
As a member of Generation X, it’s not often I find out something new, but over the past 24 hours I’ve learned more about AI than I have in the past…well, since ever. More specifically, I’ve learned how to create images using Easy Diffusion. Easy Diffusion is the same thing as Stable Diffusion, but it’s…
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Calibrate Huion Kamvas Pro 24 4K on Linux
About a year and a half ago I bought a Huion Kamvas Pro 24 4K as a replacement for an old Wacom Cintiq 21UX that died after being used over 10 years. Wacom no longer makes that model of display and their direct replacements cost over $2000, so I was hesitant to buy another. At…
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Like a kid in a candy store
Now that I have more free time, I’ve been getting back into Second Life again. I also want to get back into Open Simulator, but it’s sort of hard to know where to start. A few years ago I tried a few different Hypergrid instances, and they were okay, but not mind blowing, so I’m…
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Hacking AI News
Having recently graduated, it seemed like a good time to try new things. Among the new things I’ve recently tried out is a WordPress theme called AI News. It’s an open source theme intended for sites that want to incorporate a ChatGPT plugin to write blog posts. I have no intention of using that plugin…
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Taking notes with Obsidian
For a few years now, I’ve been using Obsidian to keep a daily journal, and it’s been great. It has a lot of options that I’ve never explored or needed but something came up recently and I wanted to find out how to connect Obsidian to Zotero. An online search using DuckDuckGo returned an unexpected…
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Business continuity planning
For the past 20+ years I’ve worked at a large public university in the American Midwest, and over the years I’ve picked up “other duties as assigned.” These are duties that don’t take up all of my time, but are good to work on when things are slow. One of these duties is business continuity…
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Long Live the Classic Editor
When logging into a WordPress blog, the user is first shown the Dashboard, which usually includes links to posts about WordPress. This morning, most of those posts had to do with the announcement that support for the Classic Editor plugin has been extended to 2022, and possibly beyond. In 2018, when WordPress came out with…
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Revisiting the Dell Inspiron 13 7375 2-in-1
It’s been almost two years since I wrote about installing Linux Mint on a Dell Inspiron 13 7375 2-in-1, and in that time I’ve used it pretty regularly. After two years of using the laptop on a nearly daily basis, it seemed like a good idea to write about my experiences with it. I’m not…
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Vlogging
A few months ago as I was doing updates for the fundraising platforms, I decided to try something new in the future. Since I’m a big fan of YouTube, I thought I might start doing videos. Except of course, that it isn’t as easy as just filming and uploading. I started paying attention to the…
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Installing Linux Mint 19.2 on a Dell Inspiron 13 7375 2-in-1
Over the past few years I’ve noticed that my personal laptop has been showing its age. It is a Dell XPS 13 L321X, one of the original Project Sputnik laptops from Dell. It came with pre-loaded Ubuntu 12.4 and has a Core i7 CPU, 8 GB of RAM and a 256 GB SSD. One of…
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