The Sod House

I recently came to learn of the Fire Chicken Webring, a local link in the the modern webring.

The year is 1996.

1996? I actually had a website in this era, The Sod House. No webring, but very much an attempt at a helpful collection of links.

The. Sod. House?

sodhouse

futuristic drawing, icelandic turf house, modest, dilapidated, weathered, old, damaged, lonely traveler looking at house
  • prompt: futuristic drawing, icelandic turf house, modest, dilapidated, weathered, old, damaged, lonely traveler looking at house
  • neg: stone house, wood house
  • model: sd_xl_base_1.0_0.9vae.safetensors [e6bb9ea85]
  • seed: 520837284
  • widthxheight: 1024x512
  • sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras
  • cfgs: 7
  • steps: 30

I created that. Although, it would seem that doesn’t mean what it used to. That’s probably a topic for another day.

In the spirit of the webring, let me share some links from my journey into running models locally:

  • stable-diffusion-webui-docker
    • clean docker compose setup, uses my GPU, easy support for experimenting with differnet models, embeddings, LORAs
  • civitai
    • endless source of new models, embeddings, LORAs, images, techiniques, ideas
  • ollama
    • provides a docker-like experience for playing around with LLMs
  • ollama-webui
    • webui on top of LLMs providing a more user-friendly interface to interact with them
  • wizard-vicuna-uncensored
    • one of my favorite models recently, I can run the 30B model on my 3090 at an acceptable speed, and I’m impressed
    • I also have had success with the 7b model on older hardware, but you have to adjust your expectations

Where am I headed next?

Take control, run local.