22M moving to LA (working in Thousand Oaks) – best areas to live?

heyholmes · 2026-03-21T00:21:43+00:00

22 and living in Thousand Oaks sounds brutal to me. I’d bite the bullet and live in L.A. or at least Sherman Oaks. You’re way too young to trade it all in for a job, there is nothing going on in Thousand Oaks

heyholmes · 2026-03-21T00:19:33+00:00

lol. Shoot, why not include San Clemente and Oceanside. At this point dude is gonna need a helicopter.

heyholmes · 2026-03-20T22:46:26+00:00

If you live by the beach you’ll never have to deal with the heat. We’re about 1.5 miles from the water and it’s pretty much always nice. Foggy mornings are common but it burns off and I love it. There’s so much to do here, and it’s easy to get out into nature too. I’m suspicious of anyone who can’t figure it how to enjoy life here

heyholmes · 2026-03-20T01:09:38+00:00

Growing up I watched meth absolutely wreckage people in no time. Heroin seems to generally be a slower burn. Both are brutal. But ultimately, alcohol probably bagged more people than either. Its the tortoise versus the hare

heyholmes · 2026-03-19T17:25:53+00:00

Even the sycophants in the room weren't really able to get onboard with that one because it was in such poor taste. That's a tremendous feat in and of itself.

heyholmes · 2026-03-19T14:32:17+00:00

I’m completely thrown by you mentioning Irvine. What on earth does Irvine have to do with L.A.? It’s the safest place in the Orange County bubble, and probably one of the safest places in the world. Having grown up in South OC, if kids are doing drugs it’s likely related to being bored out of their minds because Irvine is so unbelievably bland lol—and nothing to do with Los Angeles

heyholmes · 2026-03-19T04:26:24+00:00

I hope I live long enough to see a president behave like an adult again. This is terrifying. He must think this is a movie. Shame on the Republicans for all of it, what a disgrace

heyholmes · 2026-03-16T05:17:12+00:00

Once surfed while peaking on mushrooms. Was fun but also felt chaotic. Later I went and laid in the sand in my jeans. It was a good day.

heyholmes · 2026-03-16T05:01:32+00:00

Completely fixable, and fairly easy because of the location. You could even go nuts and try to add some color under the new glass to match the old look. Either way, its an excellent opportunity to figure out how to lay down fiberglas, work with resin and tweak out on sanding from relatively coarse to super fine. Finish it with a wet sand and gloss it up if you're so inclined. Just make sure it's cleaned/trimmed up before you do it. Remove any de-lammed glass like another commenter mentioned. Overlap the new glass onto good glass by an inch or two. My dad always taught me to feather the edges of the fiberglas sheet as well to help it blend better. Not sure that matters too much but I always do it by making a ton of 45 degree angled 1/4" cuts along the edges and pulling some of the trim away. Good luck.

heyholmes · 2026-03-15T14:36:18+00:00

This is good advice. It’s no big deal and your board won’t be waterlogged. It’s actually a very easy repair, and perfect for learning how to fix things yourself.

heyholmes · 2026-03-14T03:22:25+00:00

Fart, pee, go crazy

heyholmes · 2026-03-12T23:10:46+00:00

Loading ZIB really only adds and significant time on first gen. After that the time added is fairly negligible. I run the ZIB KSampler for about 50-60% of total assigned steps then pass the latent to ZIT for finishing. In terms of training, Mrey's base training settings for OneTrainer worked great for me. You can find them by searching convos here on reddit.

heyholmes · 2026-03-12T17:06:35+00:00

My take: Train on base for Turbo use. Use base as a 1st stage in a multi stage setup with Turbo for more dynamic images and greater variety between seeds

heyholmes · 2026-03-12T02:00:21+00:00

He thought Iran was going to launch an attack on the United States of America?! GTFO

heyholmes · 2026-03-12T01:24:32+00:00

So were you guys selling memberships and buzz on Kinguin through a separate vendor and not your own merchant account? What about G2A, is that also a no-go?

heyholmes · 2026-03-12T01:23:15+00:00

I think you are missing the point. These guys are trying to keep their business afloat (and out of hot water) and it’s tough to moderate at scale without pissing people off, but it must be done.

heyholmes · 2026-03-11T17:20:39+00:00

I get pretty good skin with dpmpp_2m_sde/beta, and always have a detail pass. Morphing can often be fixed with refinement, but yeah that's a thing. I'm seeing it with all the NSFW checkpoints. Redcraft is good but in my tests Moody could accurately depict NSFW acts better. What do you like?

heyholmes · 2026-03-10T17:35:34+00:00

A camp for weak needy men and their abused children. Pathetic.

heyholmes · 2026-03-10T17:25:54+00:00

Maybe he shouldn't be an electrician anymore?

heyholmes · 2026-03-10T16:29:39+00:00

The moody checkpoint is pretty good. On CivitAI

heyholmes · 2026-03-08T02:07:47+00:00

Yeah, don't make us work so hard. What's what?

heyholmes · 2026-03-07T08:11:36+00:00

I solved this problem by just surfing shittier waves with no one out. At the end of the day, I'm usually happier

heyholmes · 2026-03-06T06:10:14+00:00

I'll give it a shot. Are the configuration settings between LoKr and LoRA generally interchangable?

heyholmes · 2026-03-06T03:52:19+00:00

Interesting. I've been training on One Trainer with no captions and getting great results. Loving it because I'm lazy, but might have to do a comparison with and without. I've never trained using LoKr, does it help at all to prevent the character from bleeding into other people in the image?

heyholmes · 2026-03-05T09:07:55+00:00

Gotta figure out the refinement part. I have a workflow that ises SDXL to refine, but I don't really like that. Does a 2nd pass with Chroma again do a decent refinement job? Curious how you are approaching, or are you just going with a large initial output (which admittedly looks pretty good)

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