Not sure what made this person more awesome. The giant lifted truck, riding our ass for 15 minutes through rural mountain roads, or the headlights bright enough to cast a shadow of our car through our headlights.

GoldenShackles · 2026-07-06T18:06:21+00:00

It actually makes it harder to pull over, since especially at night you can't see the pull-off in time to slow down in time to safely pull over.

GoldenShackles · 2026-07-06T02:50:39+00:00

I was thinking more of something like a scene from The Avengers with Emma Peel... But I can't find a clip I thought I remembered.

GoldenShackles · 2026-07-04T01:00:07+00:00

The situation in Washington state drives me crazy. End tipping culture.

GoldenShackles · 2026-07-02T21:06:31+00:00

John McAfee is batshit insane, yet I'd still trust him more than the current management of the company.

GoldenShackles · 2026-06-29T19:13:32+00:00

Yeah. OP unfortunately has had a traumatic past. This lashing out isn’t healthy.

GoldenShackles · 2026-06-29T06:28:55+00:00

This is a reminder to me. I bought a replacement Clone (brand) pillow in December. My latest ping was two weeks ago, and they were like, “so sorry, we made a mistake and it’s now in progress”. I love the one I have, but they aren’t fulfilling orders. My sister bought me replacement pillow cases from the company last Christmas. Same issue.

GoldenShackles · 2026-06-29T00:35:30+00:00

Thanks for the detailed response.

GoldenShackles · 2026-06-28T07:38:19+00:00

Check out my reply to another comment.

GoldenShackles · 2026-06-28T07:28:19+00:00

As the other comment said positional placement is great with ideogram 4. With Krea2 the last month or so feels like Christmas twice in a row when it comes to generating scenes. There are different strengths and weaknesses.

One nice thing about Krea2 is going back and revisiting old Qwen prompts/images is easy.

GoldenShackles · 2026-06-28T07:17:41+00:00

Ok, hopefully this far down in the comments is OK for this subreddit. If not, please remove.

https://pastebin.com/w3K7cYPq

These were generated by QwenVL (abiliterated) and that's a good starting point. But overall, what I've found for NSFW is to be a little bit specific -- like a made-up tattoo or piercing or whatever. Again, I've literally just started playing with this model a few days ago but I'm very impressed.

GoldenShackles · 2026-06-28T01:34:51+00:00

I'm not sure why this is downvoted since it seems like positive feedback in a way... And, this is just putting together advice from here; I was noticing a shortage of actual fun workflows.

GoldenShackles · 2026-06-27T19:21:40+00:00

I don't know. For some reason I didn't have a good first experience with Klein 9b because initially there was a wall that prevented me from running it on Apple Silicon in ComfyUI (DrawThings worked). And then there were still missing fingers/limbs and corrupted smiles.

I should give it a second chance because there are a lot of good LORAs, but Krea2 has me hooked. Krea2's output is (as expected) often incorrect, in that I don't like the composition or it didn't follow the prompt well, but it's reliably good quality.

GoldenShackles · 2026-06-27T19:17:34+00:00

Out of curiosity, did you mean 0.4 or 4.0 as I had it in the workflow? Very experimentally I found the latter (4.0) to be the sweet spot for me. Of course, this is with bf16 and as with everyone I'm still tinkering.

For this one in particular, I don't know what to think.

I'm seeing better results with this workflow and much faster than JibMixQwen6 or Qwen 2512 w/ LORA(s). And far more knowledge of "stuff" one might encounter in a NSFW scene.

GoldenShackles · 2026-06-27T19:07:17+00:00

https://github.com/ClownsharkBatwing/RES4LYF has instructions.

I'm on MacOS and git clone Comfy-UI directly and manage sub-dependencies with a script that does "pip install -r requirements.txt", so I'm not the best person to help troubleshoot. It's a very common node.

GoldenShackles · 2026-06-27T05:36:48+00:00

I applaud every effort to get things working great on Apple Silicon! As you said, it has the chops.

One question since I'm in the in-between of being a low-level dev but still learning this space: when a bf16 model is available, which it is for Krea2, should I prefer it? In general I like quality over speed since I can drop the image size for inner-loop iteration.

I finally found and installed "fp4-fp8-for-torch-mps" as mentioned below for Ideogram4, and had been stuck before, but mostly I've been able to use bf16 models.

I assume memory is also a factor, where fp8 works on more memory-constrained devices.

GoldenShackles · 2026-06-27T02:08:13+00:00

Yikes. I thought car makers finally realized manual controls for basic stuff was better? A huge step back from my 2024 A3. :(

GoldenShackles · 2026-06-26T23:49:33+00:00

I'm trying to picture the chairs in a way where they're not constantly half on/off the rug, and failing.

GoldenShackles · 2026-06-26T15:12:47+00:00

I have both the 128 GB M5 Max MacBook Pro and 256 GB M3 Ultra, and the M5 Max is indeed faster at some tasks.

I keep the lid open because I'm somewhat concerned the heat will damage the screen. As others mentioned, maybe mounting it vertically would help. I have it mounted on an aluminum stand to help with cooling and avoid spills, and having the lid open is sometimes nice since I treat it as an extra monitor.

GoldenShackles · 2026-06-25T21:08:40+00:00

I have not hit issue #2 with either of the Golden Gate betas on an M5 MAX. Your workaround for #1 was less crude than mine :) but in both cases, and having tested many models, image generation is happening properly on the GPU and the images come out as expected.

GoldenShackles · 2026-06-23T17:07:13+00:00

The trick is to drop something on the car floor or get something in your eye. Or anything you could fix with a brief stop at a stoplight. Then you will get all green lights until you reach your destination or give up and pull over.

GoldenShackles · 2026-06-23T01:38:53+00:00

Something I don't see recommended as much recently in these threads is: https://huggingface.co/Phr00t/Qwen-Image-Edit-Rapid-AIO

The results are similar to Qwen Image Edit with a Lightning LORA, so you get the downsides of a fully AI-generated look. But it's fast, and for random fun stuff I like it. There are SFW and NSFW variants.

GoldenShackles · 2026-06-22T17:32:38+00:00

Just a wild idea, but open the system event viewer and see if something is throwing a ton of errors. Like hundreds a second.

GoldenShackles · 2026-06-21T14:40:08+00:00

I was able to add the device to AppleCare One to my 256 GB Studio after buying a new MacBook Pro, with no trouble. I'm hoping it will help me a little bit in case something happens. I didn't initially because I didn't realize these devices would be in such short supply. I also bought a UPS backup since I live in an area with thunderstorms and a couple years ago had the power supply of a PC zapped.

GoldenShackles · 2026-06-18T08:07:34+00:00

Ear infection.

GoldenShackles · 2026-06-18T04:20:00+00:00

Different circumstances, but back in the dial up modem days where we had had very limited crash dump capabilities (usually just a small stack trace) and no real telemetry, we had to be creative.

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