u/TheWebbster

I am trying to run some upscales with Gigapixel, and for reasons, I can't be connected to the internet as it is NDA work and that's just the situation. No internet connections.

I have tried a few models and I can't tell if they're suuuuuper slow or if they're just not doing anything because there is no connection.

EG a simple standard max 2x took about 5mins on the Mac. Thats... crazy.

A redefine realistic, the progress bar doesn't seem to move. I can't tell if it's not processing because that model is a cloud model or if it's just so stupidly slow.

Is there a document or page that lists a) what models are cloud only, if any, and
b) any kind of guide as to what kind of times I should expect for each model, given a rough input of say 1k and a 2x or 4x, or 2k and 2x or 4x.

Thanks

Hi all
As the title says. I thought 64gb would be HEAPS but apparently it is low. Literally all I have running is MacOS Sequioa, and Adobe After Effects. I don't know why that all takes up 64gb but here we are.

In UTM I resized to 96gb. Now, search tells me
For MacOS, Boot the macOS virtual machine.Open Disk Utility.Select the container/volume and use the partition/resize controls or run diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk1 (or your specific disk identifier) from the internal terminal.

But
There is no option to resize the main OS disk that I can find in disk util.

Any help appreciated.

What's the current meta for posing in Krea2?

So we have
- not-very-good-i2i capabilities
- a depth Lora but which doesn't allow a lot of flexibility, eg you get depth from a photo, it's not good to transforming into poses with cartoon characters because, proportions
- and no dw-pose or bones

Seems we are limited to trying to describe things, and this is sloooow and not very precsise at all.

What do we do about posing things in Krea2?
Did they just not think about that at all when training?

Is there anything / new stuff I am not aware of to help in this area?

Thanks

Hi

As the title says I am stuck on "Booting Storage, Please Wait"

AS6806T 4drives in Raid5
NAS + drives were all brand new this year

Searched and last time this topic came up in this sub was 2 yrs ago then 4 yrs ago.
That's it, only two instances.

Hoping something is new / actionable in that time and I can get a solution.

Drive 1 of 4 in the AS6806T had some SMART errors a month or so ago. Seems this has happened again.

Am I stuck on boot lock because the drive won't read? Is there anything I can do?

I thought the OS was supposed to be across all drives? So if drive 1 had a read error the NAS should still boot?

Thanks

Every man and his dog has their own version of a node. Many don't explain how to use, beyond including a json or png that works for one model but then you discover it won't for others.

Eg, tinyTerry XY plot. No where to put in the text encoder for Krea2. So... how to make an XY grid when the custom nodes attempt to do everything all in one, instead of being able to insert additional nodes into any workflow?
Do I HAVE to use the pipeKSampler? If I don't use the PipeLoader, so I can use the correct text encoder for Krea2, do I plug those into the OPTIONAL connectors on the pipeKSampler? No instructions...

ComfyUI Easy Use -
A buuuunch of XY nodes with... no workflow demo to show you how they are supposed to connect or be used.

ComfuyUI Efficiency Nodes -
Didn't even try because reports on this sub say they are broken for XY plots

ComfyRoll custom nodes -
You have to go through a FreeU node? Why? How to change that? Who knows?
AFAIK you don't use FreeU with Krea2?
Also it's doing something like just iterating/incrementing values, rendering out individual images, then at the end reading in all the images from a folder and re-assembling them into a grid. How does this work if I want to do 10 xy grids in a row? Do I have to set a new folder name for each? Can't seem to set name. Clear folder each time? What? Huh? Ugh?

What else? Probably all kinds of others.
Those are the 4 I have installed.

I miss the simplicity of XY in Auto1111. Nodes are fine, but there doesn't seem to be any way of standardizing or simplifying this process.

Help appreciated.
What I want to do:
Just test some lora strengths across X, and down Y load in some different lora versions from my training, to work out which one is best. I will probably run it 5-10 times with different prompts. It sounds so simple... but in nodes seems to be so complex.

I had a fine magnetic dust filter over the 120x120x25 fan on the back of the 6-Bay Gen3 Lockerstor.
Then noticed that the dust was on the inside of it, not the outside.
WHAT?

The fan is pushing air out of the back of the Lockerstor, it's getting brought IN from the 3 sets of dot-holes on top and sides.
AND I presume, through the spaces between drive bays - so, the front of the NAS.

This is WAY harder to stop dust getting in.

If I reverse the fan, and use it to pull air IN then the air goes out through the dot holes and (presumably) the front between bays,
Will that have a drastic negative effect?

Or

How else can I manage dust intake? Especially preventing dust coming in between bays and caking up the bays and drives themselves.
Not to mention dust on SSDs and the boards.

Thanks all

The closest I can find to true WYSIWYG, word processor, is, stupidly, a plugin for VSCode.
But at least in that (Markdown for Humans, name is spot on), I never see a single piece of markdown syntax code. Never.

All I wanted was a small, standalone app without the baggage of VSCode. VScode is not an app for quickly editing Mardown files in small windows from various locations on disk. It's full environment. It's unwieldy.

AFAICT, nothing exists, I have spent days searching.

All apps that claim to be WYSIWYG are either
- not true file editors, they want to store notes in their own internal database. I want files on a dirve
- split pane. I just want to see word processor window, not two windows
- They LOOK like WYSIWYG but as soon as you start moving around a document a HEADING suddenly becomes a ###HEADING and it slides to the right under your eyeballs, putting you off your flow.

DAYS. Days looking for a true WYSIWYG Markdown app, and... nothing.

Someone PLEASE prove me wrong. Where is this unicorn app??

EDIT
Some genuinely helpful people in the comments - and a LOT of trolls.
ItS a SkIlL iSsUe
tHaT's NoT wHaT mArKdOwN iS fOr
Neither of which address the question. Rather an attempt to berate me for even asking the question, how dare I not want to the see the code, how dare I simply want to edit text with logical formatting but not give myself a headache and squints from all the shifting text and appearing/disappearing syntax markers.

If you don't have a constructive answer, why comment?
Oh right... it's REDDIT

Tried out some image-to-3D-model about 6 months ago.

Since then I see online tools like Meshy have gotten way better...

But what about local?
What's the current best I can do at home on a 4090 or better

Thanks all

Hi all

As the title says

I am working with markdowm more these days.
But one thing really bugs me about the editors.
You click on a line, like a heading. It looks just like a heading...
But as soon as your cursor is on it.

THIS HEADING
becomes
### THIS HEADING ### and when you move the cursor down it jumps back to
THIS HEADING again.

I don't want to see that. I don't ever want to see any markdown code, at all. I don't want to see little asterisks appearing and disappearing as I move through bold text. I don't want hashes sliding the headline to the right when my cursor touches them.

It's giving me a headache.

Are there any good Markdown editors that will behave just like Textedit or another docs editor? Where I literally never have to see or care about markup code at all?

Please god I am begging you all
Thanks

Hi

We need to replace some rugs. Sisal, hardwearing. Most of these seem to be samey samey - it's sisal you can't really go wrong... right? Or can you??
Current rugs are 10y/o, and after some messes and spills, have discoloured patches. So: new ones, says the missus.

We are looking at a current sale from rug.com.au
Are these people legit, and trustworthy?

I hate not seeing things in person before buying, but like I said... it's a sisal rug. It's not like I'm buying a silk rug and getting something some other fabric.

Reason for this site is matching rugs in various sizes. Bunnings are others either don't have the size variety in a match, or are more expensive.
eg

Other recommendations welcome.

Thanks!

Edit: Sydney based, can't get to a factory in Melbourne or other, interstate shipping not so great.

Box is driving me insane
I am forced to use this to collaborate on an existing project. Not my choice.
I use a Mac. Macs often have small internal drives.
I do not encrypt my drives. Why would I? I don't need to. I would argue most people, would not need to.
Install Box, THEN discover you can't move it off the system drive, to a non-encrypted external drive.
Don't HAVE any more drives
Not going to change my existing drives, they are all in use in the middle of other projects. I am NOT going to add encryption to my main Dropbox external drive, for example, and risk locking myself out of my Dropbox. Or worse, doing something wrong.

Chat tells me I could mount a sparse disk image and link Box to that.
Doesn't seem to work, it seems Box is coded to not show mounted disk images, and only physical drives.

How DARE Box presume to tell me how and where I can have my files. This is a HORRIBLE app and I recommend NO ONE USE IT.

Looking for a workaround to get Box off the system drive please.
I work in media and have hundreds of GB I need to sync over the next week on this project. Buying a new drive is not a solution. Reformatting an existing drive is not a solution. I need a way to FORCE Box to use whatever location I want.
Please DM me if needed.

Thanks

Hi all
I am once again getting issue with these two apps. I was forced to uninstall/reinstall Proton for reasons, and now I can't get a setup working again where all sites on the web work.

I have followed the recommendations in the wiki
- Access Devices by Name is on
- DNS for Proton is 127.0.0.1
- Protocol... I have tried lots of combinations. None of them really work. Some things work with Wireguard UDP and other work with Wireguard TCP, but neither of those works with all web destinations.
- Win 11
- Proton 4.4.1

I've gone here https://github.com/safing/portmaster/issues/2024#issuecomment-3343283127
Only to see this is marked "unplanned"
What do you mean unplanned??

Can anyone tell me what else I need to do, to make this work?
It's a well known and reliable VPN recommended on many privacy sites. It shouldn't be a major conflict that results in a fix being "unplanned"?

Can anyone shed light on Seatools SMART status messages. "Reported Uncorrectable" is 55, says "counter is maxed out". Does this mean it only counts that high but could be having more errors? Confused.

I need to RMA a drive as it's used in a NAS. Ironwolf 28tb. I can't be having errors of any kind when the drive is a) in a NAS and b) INTENDED and sold for use in a NAS. General knowledge of Reddit, Google, and AI summaries citing sources such as Backblaze posts, state that "Reported Uncorrectable" is reason to RMA a drive as failing or failed for all intents and purposes.

I just want to understand more about the reporting. Need information in case the vendor tries to say the drive is fine because you can still write to it.
For a NAS? Yeah, no.

DriveDX on Mac and Seatools on PC both report the same: Reported Uncorrectable stat. DriveDX instructs this drive is going to imminently fail. And many other sources say the same.

But... "counter is maxed out". Is that just... not a very robust counter? Or "maxed out" is like "danger, warning, fail, fail"?

Thanks all

Oh turns out I can't post an image.
Anyway, I installed Seatools to analyse a SMART error on a spinning Seagate disk.

Opened it up and it's also got my Samsung 980 1TB main drive (OS) on the menu too.
Says "Life" is 94%. What does that mean? It's gonna die in 6%??

Also says TBW is 45tb. Which is... not a lot, as I understand it, for SSDs and life?
I think it's rated to 600TBW. So why would it say "Life" is 94%?

Just looking for input on how likely it is that I need to back a backup of the OS drive and get a new drive. Which is... not cool, given today's prices.

Thanks all

Hi

Is it possible to "repair" a high capacity (24-30TB) Ironwolf when SMART errors occur?

I am getting some runaround from customer service about assessing the drive to see if it is repairable.

I understand they need to verify for themselves the condition of the drive.

But... repair? I was under the impression these things are filled with helium and so dense they are not repairable in any way, shape or form.

Looking for any input on this kind of runaround.

Hi all

I have a failed Seagate Ironwolf drive. Retail shop will take care of warranty but I have to ship international, then wait 7-10 days for them to assess, them wait for shipping back.

Will going direct to Seagate from Australia be faster? This is crazy slow times from the retail shop.

Edit:
Hmm, seagate website lists Australia service centres as "UPS Supply Chain Solutions"
ie
A shipping co
Which is NOT
A service centre for Seagate???? FFS.

Thanks

Hi all

Can anyone help me with getting proper full SMART reporting out of the Studio Stack.
I have smartmontools installed but it's not going anywhere.

Is there another way, or
What arguments for smartmontools do I need to pass to get past the Studiostack's USB bridge?

Thanks

Hi all

Asking the NAS/backup experts. I have always found this sub to be much more helpful than anything else to do with drives and huge numbers of GB. 😄

First: Yes, NAS is not a backup. If some of this vanishes, not a HUGE deal. But I would prefer it not to.
Majority I have already backed up from months ago, like 90%.
Some stuff I only have the 1 copy on the NAS though...

NAS is an Asustor Locketstor Gen3 6-bay.
Drives are 4 x 28tb Ironwolfs.
Disk 1 has a SMART failure, red LED on the unit.

I need to pull maybe a 1tb of it. Can I do that?

Annoyingly, I did extended smart and sector tests when I first set up the unit in Feb. Said everything was OK. And now, this.

Should I just shut it down, wait for the replacement drive, then swap and power back on?
Doesn't disk1 hold the OS? How does that work?

Or should I try to recover some now, then shut down and wait for replacement drive (drive is only 4 months old).

Thanks for the guidance.

Got a new AS6806T and 4x28TB drives (also new) maybe 3-4 months ago.
Tested all drives with deep Ironwolf scan in ADM. Health all good like 2 days ago.

Backing up some stuff today to the NAS
And suddenly it starts beeping at me. Red light (solid) on disk 1.

Go to website, go to Downloads > Documents > User Guide...
It's all about how to use ADM software. Not how to solve this problem??

1st, how to stop the beep. I can't think with this thing honking at me.
2nd, what is the issue and what do I do?? WHERE IN THE DOCUMENTATION, ASUSTOR, IS THIS?

Thanks all