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Perfectly sensible is the only thing I can say about it :)

Depending on your hardware you might be able to generate images without using any service! For all its quirks, downsides and moral stuff, it can be a lot of fun to play with. If you’re on Apple hardware, try my favorite tool, Draw Things https://apps.apple.com/it/app/draw-things-ai-generation/id6444050820?l=en-GB that is free, without ads and worst case scenario it runs like crap on your device if it’s not very modern. If you’re not using Apple gear, Enfugue (that still supports Macs) https://github.com/painebenjamin/app.enfugue.ai is quite simple and easy to install.

And obviously what’s probably the most popular option, the behemoth that is known as automatic1111 stable diffusion webui https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui that’s not the most user friendly solution but…

That’s actually a good example, “any of them”. Unless the model is trained by someone with specific interest in Star Trek, the Enterprise has… what, 60 years of different reinterpretations? I enjoy generative AI, and made let’s call it an extension to be able to make the old Fiat Panda. Without it, you’d get either the new one, or randomness. And with my efforts now it’s possible to get-ish it. My dataset wasn’t the greatest quality or variety, plus I didn’t put a ton of effort into tagging the single pictures so it’s not very flexible or particularly good. It works sufficiently well and I’m happy with it, but I’m very aware of its shortcomings… namely that I didn’t tag any picture with the orientation of the car. It is however a car so it has a basic framework to show it, while the Enterprise? Not the most simple subject to reproduce. Anyway you don’t really care, sorry for that minor wall of text :D

Holy shit, no kidding. Some actors it likes, others… I once tried to make a group photo with all the captains, I tried many different models, lots of tricks (plenty of advancements since then, I could probably pull it off nowadays) and it was a disaster. I’ll post one or two of those if I can find them again, absolute waste of an afternoon.

Cool, looks simple enough. Can’t test it on my phone, but for things with the A12 and up (although ram can and will be a problem if less than 6gb) there’s https://apps.apple.com/it/app/draw-things-ai-generation/id6444050820?l=en-GB

Depends. Lately I’ve been playing things that are not… ideal on the Deck. For example American Truck Simulator runs very well, BUT! I kinda doze off if it’s night, so my way around that is a big screen, less comfortable position (plain old sitting at a desk) and a secondary screen with Netflix or something. Snow runner I prefer the Deck. It just feels right. Also my main game got me playing regularly again, and when it’s the PS version… can’t really play it on the Deck.

So yeah, it’s down. Hilariously too, if you consider that for ATS I’m just using my Mac!

Side note: it hurts bad to see Baldur’s Gate running… smoother than on anything else I have, because it’s lightweight enough graphically, but the base M2 whips both the Deck’s cpu (fair enough) and the Ryzen 3600 in my gaming pc that should be better because of the RTX 3060…

Can I offer what I believe is a better option? 1.5 LCM models. 5 steps for a good image, and they’re 5 steps at 1.5 speeds :)

I like this but obviously you can find other LCM models.

How old of a Xeon? Because it won’t be a fast result, but maybe you are fine with it. Back when I tried this, SD 1.5 could do 20 steps at 512x512 on my Ryzen 5 3600 in roughly 7 minutes…

Netflix, in Italy

Took me a while to remember that one weird episode.

I fully expected this to be about Janeway, but alas.