Ate a slice of pizza and it completely destroyed my throat. In hindsight it makes complete sense because Domino's isn't known for their smooth, eloquent crusts, that thing is jagged, harsh and knows only destruction and death. I'm gonna finish nursing this popsicle to get some icy relief and then I'll continue posting a few more sets.
Taking a quick break to eat some food, be back soon!
nostr:npub1jneahpf6hkrh0c0lumlnk7ndswfqwp5ccr8x4crtknqql2j9nweq9yxprf Thanks! Today's one of the consistently best days I've had since this started, so I figured I should share these good tidings with everyone here by posting some more stuff... until I inevitably get tired and fall asleep in my office chair mid-post.
Well that's all I really had planned to post today but... COVID isn't kicking my butt quite so hard as it has been for nearly an entire week, and I kinda want to keep posting. Let me look up some other sets to post for y'all.
One moment please!
Fixed.
For reference:
Photo 1 - Original
Photo 2 - AI / Topaz pass
Oof, this set needs an AI pass too. One moment.
Oh yeah, forgot to do this. For reference:
Photo 1 - Original
Photo 2 - AI / Topaz pass
There, fixed images 3 and 4. User error! Clicked through a few options too quickly, missed important stuff.
AI pass failed in that third image. One moment, will reupload.
Okay, I almost feel human today (at best I feel like a very tired human), so let's give this a shot.
Let's get posting!
nostr:npub1va9hxrlwsdaa6w663fhk2untwmhcwlqpqfr9hfxfc89y4na9caxsfylk0t I don't wanna outright say that Indian food cures all ailments, but after that crash I woke up two hours later feeling completely insane, fell back asleep, then two hours after that I woke up and noticed my fever finally broke. All I really got left bothering me is an extremely sore throat, mucus buildup, general aches and pains everywhere and I still can't taste anything, other than the sensation that something is sweet, acidic, etc. But yeah, definitely feeling better already!
nostr:npub1va9hxrlwsdaa6w663fhk2untwmhcwlqpqfr9hfxfc89y4na9caxsfylk0t Currently what I have is causing me just to have a lot of congestion and inflammation all throughout my head, but that inflammation is triggering some ear issues that I've had since I was a kid, and those ear issues cause me to suffer from quite intense vertigo. It kinda goes in cycles from stuffy nose, to a dull pain up to a temple, I then get a headache, then my ears start to hurt, then the world spins. Inflammation goes away, back to stuffy nose, rinse and repeat.
This the first time I've boosted other content in weeks. I really suck at social media. I spend my time posting naked ladies with tattoos, but outside of the time I do that I have minimal interest in looking at any other posts here. I got a decent platform here, I gotta be better at boosting up the visibility of others. Especially content creators!
If anyone has any recommendations for content creators that post here, especially ones that fit the alt theme, let me know!
nostr:npub1drgjhqha2jtmvg0jkslu2ehyaxkew2rrskkgdeujjhktsak4cn7qna2atu I suppose so, but if I'm being a rational adult about it then I think I go just one step too far. Telling users in my instance via DMs that an anonymous report was filed against them from a user at another instance is, in my mind, good practice. Telling everyone in my federated range that a user from an instance anonymously reported me, I know the identity of this user, and that said user should "get fucked" is rather petty. At least I didn't @ the person, I got that going for me.
This is the first set I ever posted, back when I was on mstdn.jp. I wanted to see how well the AI pass helps the set and it's... fine?
Photo 1 - Original
Photo 2 - AI / Topaz pass
Have a bit of a delay still, I posted too fast for my instance and now I gotta wait a while to post again. It's really frustrating that I can't fix that since I don't technically host my own instance (I use masto.host.) I really need to put in the effort to see what I can do to host things myself so that I can change things like upload limits, character limits per post, etc. If anyone has any experience with fully self-hosting, I wouldn't mind hearing from you.
Some of the AI passes are more effective than others. That Sunshine set was very challenging for the AI to handle, and there are some upcoming sets that gave me issues, but for the most part Topaz has had no problems "modernizing" some of these sets (everything I'm posting is from 2006, maybe some from 2005). I'm just glad that it's not making all of the models look totally fake or rubbery like what I was doing before when using Upscayl (although Topaz definitely can do that if I'm not careful.)
... but I don't think I'm objective in this situation since I paid for Topaz, so I have a vested interest in it working well for me.
- I might shut down my nostr:npub10srmmf4g0fdnux7w3jne6fw3zwp3c6kdyu9wfzc2pnx5c9hcp5js83f9qm account. Despite it being more in line with the SG content I prefer, handling that extra account while struggling to keep things status quo here doesn't bode well for the future.
- I'm trying to brainstorm ways for me to keep posting content without it basically taking all my free time each evening. It's been tough to keep pace!
Just some notes from this evening:
- I deleted my poll concerning posting full sets vs what I normally post. While full sets was winning by an overwhelming amount, it was brought to my attention that doing that is ethically dubious, which, after thinking about that for one whole second, makes complete sense to me. Status quo it is, apologies for the tease.
- Let me know if the Topaz AI passes have been alright. It feels so much better than Upscayl or the manual photo edits I was doing before...
And that's all for me for now. Have a good one!