Hi guys,
I really have to tell you guys a few things. I have been on a break from making any new models lately but over the past day, I've suspected that my break will need to be for a longer period of time.
Yesterday, I stumbled upon a new base model that I think appears to be really promising and may be an improvement over the Illustrious base model I was using to train my models. It is called Anima. Information about this base model is in this link:
https://civitai.com/articles/26217/anima-what-is-anima
Though, if I want to start training models in Anima, I'd have to train offline. And speaking of training models, I am very unhappy about how now you can only use crypto if you wish to buy any new yellow buzz. I tried using crypto in August, but I shut my Coinbase account down after only like a week or two, because I accidentally 'won' bitcoin which I didn't want. I managed to shut my account down before the bitcoin could ever reach it. Plus, I felt I'd have to wait for a tax form from Coinbase when I did my taxes last month, but I never received a form from them thankfully. It was a PITA.
As a result, I'm not gonna use crypto to buy any new Buzz and I am no longer going to train any new models here. I'll have to learn to start training new models offline. Though I don't think I can get going with this for a while.
And even before all this, I decided to try training a model in Flux.1 here, but while I was at it, I decided to test a Flux.1 base model via Forge UI Neo, but the image turned out not sharp enough, and generation was slow. Next time I tried generating that way, my computer crashed due to a GPU overload. I didn't have enough VRAM to be able to generate any images in Flux.
Sigh, all this is making me feel down.
I'll be out of here for a while. I'm sorry, guys, for this inconvenience. :(