After the sale is before the sale: Black Friday edition

Everything is already from China, but here we discuss the cheap chink shit you see on various sites.
1st rule of /csg/: If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.

Useful links
>TWS IEM reviews: www.scarbir.com/
>Guide: csg-guide.neocities.org/
>Wiki: https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Chink_Shit_General

>What headphones/earbuds should I buy?
>>>/g/iemg
>I want a cheap smartphone what should I buy?
>>>/g/spg/
>I want to buy some sort of emulation device
>>>/vr/hhg/

>News
>>107241614 - Eternal projector discussion
>>107241987 - Anon gets a bunch of USB-C and coax ports and soldering stuff
>>107246283 - Vader 4 review
>>107250408 - 11.11 orders arriving in full force
>>107253662 - This posts starts a discussion about chinese safety gear for motorcyclists, anon who asked does not care >>107262740
>>107254666 - Scooter anon is back with a detailed range test, very nice. Other anons remain doubtful of the safety of scooters >>107261996
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Previous thread:
>>107240729

Thread before previous:
>>107216925

I just can't figure it out. Why not 1TB or 2TB?
Price can't be that different and the SSD isn't soldered.

I can only think it's because they had a bunch of 512GB leftover in inventory from steam decks. Otherwise nothing else makes sense. Nobody builds or sells 500GB gaming PCs.

/lmg/ - a general dedicated to the discussion and development of local language models.

Previous threads: >>107255984 & >>107245928

►News
>(11/19) Meta releases Segment Anything Model 3: https://ai.meta.com/sam3
>(11/11) ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking released: https://ernie.baidu.com/blog/posts/ernie-4.5-vl-28b-a3b-thinking
>(11/07) Step-Audio-EditX, LLM-based TTS and audio editing model released: https://hf.co/stepfun-ai/Step-Audio-EditX
>(11/06) Kimi K2 Thinking released with INT4 quantization and 256k context: https://moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-K2/thinking.html
>(11/05) MegaDLMs framework for training diffusion language models released: https://github.com/JinjieNi/MegaDLMs

►News Archive: https://rentry.org/lmg-news-archive
►Glossary: https://rentry.org/lmg-glossary
►Links: https://rentry.org/LocalModelsLinks
►Official /lmg/ card: https://files.catbox.moe/cbclyf.png

►Getting Started
https://rentry.org/lmg-lazy-getting-started-guide
https://rentry.org/lmg-build-guides
https://rentry.org/IsolatedLinuxWebService
https://rentry.org/recommended-models
https://rentry.org/samplers
https://rentry.org/MikupadIntroGuide

►Further Learning
https://rentry.org/machine-learning-roadmap
https://rentry.org/llm-training
https://rentry.org/LocalModelsPapers

►Benchmarks
LiveBench: https://livebench.ai
Programming: https://livecodebench.github.io/gso.html
Context Length: https://github.com/adobe-research/NoLiMa
GPUs: https://github.com/XiongjieDai/GPU-Benchmarks-on-LLM-Inference

►Tools
Alpha Calculator: https://desmos.com/calculator/ffngla98yc
GGUF VRAM Calculator: https://hf.co/spaces/NyxKrage/LLM-Model-VRAM-Calculator
Sampler Visualizer: https://artefact2.github.io/llm-sampling

►Text Gen. UI, Inference Engines
https://github.com/lmg-anon/mikupad
https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp
https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp
https://github.com/theroyallab/tabbyAPI
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm

Out of Bait Edition

Discussion of Free and Open Source Text-to-Image/Video Models

Prev: >>107260982

https://rentry.org/ldg-lazy-getting-started-guide

>UI
ComfyUI: https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI
SwarmUI: https://github.com/mcmonkeyprojects/SwarmUI
re/Forge/Classic/Neo: https://rentry.org/ldg-lazy-getting-started-guide#reforgeclassicneo
SD.Next: https://github.com/vladmandic/sdnext
Wan2GP: https://github.com/deepbeepmeep/Wan2GP

>Checkpoints, LoRAs, Upscalers, & Workflows
https://civitai.com
https://civitaiarchive.com/
https://openmodeldb.info
https://openart.ai/workflows

>Tuning
https://github.com/spacepxl/demystifying-sd-finetuning
https://github.com/Nerogar/OneTrainer
https://github.com/kohya-ss/sd-scripts
https://github.com/tdrussell/diffusion-pipe

>WanX
https://rentry.org/wan22ldgguide
https://comfyanonymous.github.io/ComfyUI_examples/wan22/

>NetaYume
https://civitai.com/models/1790792?modelVersionId=2298660
https://nieta-art.feishu.cn/wiki/RY3GwpT59icIQlkWXEfcCqIMnQd
https://gumgum10.github.io/gumgum.github.io/
https://huggingface.co/neta-art/Neta-Lumina

>Chroma
https://huggingface.co/lodestones/Chroma1-Base
Training: https://rentry.org/mvu52t46

>Illustrious
1girl and Beyond: https://rentry.org/comfyui_guide_1girl
Tag Explorer: https://tagexplorer.github.io/

>Misc
Local Model Meta: https://rentry.org/localmodelsmeta
Share Metadata: https://catbox.moe | https://litterbox.catbox.moe/
GPU Benchmarks: https://chimolog.co/bto-gpu-stable-diffusion-specs/
Img2Prompt: https://huggingface.co/spaces/fancyfeast/joy-caption-beta-one
Txt2Img Plugin: https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion
Archive: https://rentry.org/sdg-link
Bakery: https://rentry.org/ldgcollage

>Neighbors
>>>/aco/csdg
>>>/b/degen
>>>/b/realistic+parody
>>>/gif/vdg
>>>/d/ddg
>>>/e/edg
>>>/h/hdg
>>>/trash/slop
>>>/vt/vtai
>>>/u/udg

>Local Text
>>>/g/lmg

>Maintain Thread Quality
https://rentry.org/debo

>upgrade to gimp 3.0
>new image
>try to add text
>font is monospace
>font dropdown doesn't work
>try clicking again
>gimp crashes
>image not saved must recreate
>manually type the name of the font this time
>keep unselecting the input box because double clicking doesn't select a word like every other apps, but instead unfocusses the input box
>font name is entered
>try to move text
>move tool moves the layer behind the text unless you click exactly within the outline of the letters
>try to add outline to text
>Alt+layer to select the text boundary, the grow and feather to add outline (had to look that up first time)
>doesn't work anymore
>feature is removed
>look up how to do it now
>suggest drop shadow
>try drop shadow tool
>it does nothing
>try drop shadow (legacy) tool
>it does nothing (legacy)
>find outline option in text menu
>click it
>UI breaks and scrolls off screen
>can't readjust until i fiddle with the window and scroll bars decide to start working
>click “pattern outline”
>box shows a bunch of LSD patterns and a fucking pepper, no option for gradient
>click solid outline
>outline is broken and goes over the top of the text path
>try to change outline colour
>gimp crashes
>image gone
FUCK THIS PIECE OF SHIT

Discussion of Free and Open Source Text-to-Image/Video Models

Prev: >>107260982 (Cross-thread)

https://rentry.org/ldg-lazy-getting-started-guide

>UI
ComfyUI: https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI
SwarmUI: https://github.com/mcmonkeyprojects/SwarmUI
re/Forge/Classic/Neo: https://rentry.org/ldg-lazy-getting-started-guide#reforgeclassicneo
SD.Next: https://github.com/vladmandic/sdnext
Wan2GP: https://github.com/deepbeepmeep/Wan2GP
AniStudio(WIP):https://github.com/FizzleDorf/AniStudio

>Checkpoints, LoRAs, Upscalers, & Workflows
https://civitai.com
https://civitaiarchive.com/
https://openmodeldb.info
https://openart.ai/workflows

>Tuning
https://github.com/spacepxl/demystifying-sd-finetuning
https://github.com/Nerogar/OneTrainer
https://github.com/kohya-ss/sd-scripts
https://github.com/tdrussell/diffusion-pipe

>WanX
https://rentry.org/wan22ldgguide
https://comfyanonymous.github.io/ComfyUI_examples/wan22/

>NetaYume
https://civitai.com/models/1790792?modelVersionId=2298660
https://nieta-art.feishu.cn/wiki/RY3GwpT59icIQlkWXEfcCqIMnQd
https://gumgum10.github.io/gumgum.github.io/
https://huggingface.co/neta-art/Neta-Lumina

>Chroma
https://huggingface.co/lodestones/Chroma1-Base
Training: https://rentry.org/mvu52t46

>Illustrious
1girl and Beyond: https://rentry.org/comfyui_guide_1girl
Tag Explorer: https://tagexplorer.github.io/

>Misc
Local Model Meta: https://rentry.org/localmodelsmeta
Share Metadata: https://catbox.moe | https://litterbox.catbox.moe/
GPU Benchmarks: https://chimolog.co/bto-gpu-stable-diffusion-specs/
Img2Prompt: https://huggingface.co/spaces/fancyfeast/joy-caption-beta-one
Txt2Img Plugin: https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion
Archive: https://rentry.org/sdg-link
Bakery: https://rentry.org/ldgcollage

>Neighbors
>>>/aco/csdg
>>>/b/degen
>>>/b/realistic+parody
>>>/gif/vdg
>>>/d/ddg
>>>/e/edg
>>>/h/hdg
>>>/trash/slop
>>>/vt/vtai
>>>/u/udg

>Local Text
>>>/g/lmg

>Maintain Thread Quality
https://rentry.org/debo

>UPGRADE & BUILD ADVICE
Post build list or current specs: https://pcpartpicker.com/
Provide specific use cases
State BUDGET and COUNTRY or you will NOT be helped

>CASE
mATX: AP201, Lian Li A3, O11 Air Mini, XT M3, CH260
ATX: XT PRO (ULTRA), AIR 903 Base/MAX, Lancool 207, Flux Pro, Meshify 3, 4000D FRAME, X50
Dual Chamber: Y60/70, O11 Vision, Antec C8

>CPU
Gaming: 14600K, 9/7600X, 7800X3D
-Budget: 12400, 12600K, 7500F
Workstation: 265K, 285K, 9950X3D

*Avoid Asrock motherboards on AM5
*On Raptor Lake microcode updates should be considered mandatory, avoid second-hand

>COOLER
AIO: Thermalright Frozen Edge, Lian Li Galahad II Lite, Corsair Nautilus RS, Cooler Master Atmos, Liquid Freezer 3/Pro (unhandy mounting solution)
ITX/>42mm RAM: Mugen 6 Dual Fan, AXP120-X67

TIM: MX-6, MX-4, Duronaut

>RAM
DDR5: 2x16GB or 2x24GB, 6000CL30 (AM5), 6400CL32 (LGA 1700)
Workstation: 2x 32GB (budget.), 2x48GB or 2x64GB (high-end)

>SSD (Keep firmware updated)
Budget: SN7100, NM790
High-end: SN850X, 990 Pro (Windows)
Premium: SN8100
https://borecraft.com/

>GPU
Budget: Arc B580, 9060xt 8gb (~$270)
-Used: 2080, 2080ti
*8gb has become a major constraint even at 1080p
Midrange: 5060ti 16GB, 5070
-Used: 3080, 3080ti, 4070 (~$380)
4k : 5070ti, 9070xt
-Native: 5090

>PSU
Buying guide:
https://hwbusters.com/best_picks/best-atxv3-pcie5-ready-psus-picks-hardware-busters/

>MONITOR
1080p: 24" 165/180hz, KTC H25X7
1440p: 27" 165/180hz IPS, KTC M27T6 (miniLED), ASUS XG27AQWMG (WOLED)
4K: KTC M27P6 (miniLED)

>OS
Activate Windows @ >>>/g/fwt

>CASE FANS
Meta: Case with good stock PWM fans
Midrange: Arctic P12 Pro, P14 Pro (5-pack, loud @ higher RPM)
High-end: Fractal Momentum, Noctua G2 (140mm or 120mm)

Does anyone ever actually pay attention to any of this crap? The more shit they shove into it the more it just becomes a wall of indecipherable shit I ignore.

what hardware should I use to build a kubernetes cluster? must be under $800 for 6 nodes and have good CPU performance.

Thinking of using Lenovo M920q minipcs with the i5-8500T, 16GB upgrade and 256GB SSD.