I was working on cal.com two days ago. I saw this.

PHP forever.

If they lied, they will get what’s coming to them ;)

From Google

A punishment or fate that someone deserves.

Who is more chill between the both of you?

Linux forever!!!

Well, if you ever fancy another go, there is a Discord community that helps with such situations. That is how I am planning on de-Googling, once I stop being lazy.

There is a solid Lineage (build) that is floating around that is regularly updated. Been too lazy to do up my phone but now I have incentive.

Adding to this again.

Ericsson T28/T39.

Yeah. I saw. It’s a potential hopeful that a Slim 2 is on the way. This would make my year. Given the success of this lineup, I feel positive about them following through. But it also means a Pocket 2 before a Slim 2 so we are going to wait for awhile.

I had this. It was super cool.

BlackBerry. Dang I miss them. They were business cool. Now I make due with a Unihertz Titan Slim. And hopefully they upgrade to a second one cause age is showing on mine.

Her logic is, “I was a bad neglectful parent so now you must pay.” Nonsense.

Oh hell yeah.

I just get the ick is all.

I’ve been planning for two years now on how to successfully put this together.

First thing I realised I would have to learn is tools like Blender, Gimp (which I will likely replace with Krita), etc. cause regardless of how well AI produces, you need to tidy things up.

Then there is story boarding. No amount of AI can replace professionalism. So this is an important skill to have.

Then there are the layouts. All that. I learnt how to use Scribus for layouts and Inkscape is always handy.

My main struggle will be maintaining consistency which has improved consistently over the last two years, and I’ve been reading a ton of comics to learn the sort of views and angles they use.

I can’t allow AI to generate text for me, cause that loses the plot. I might as well just prompt a story up and put it on Amazon and move on. I don’t want to do that. Instead I let it suggest better phrasing, words, basically a better editor.

I also created my own theme and it, very nicely, points out when I lose the plot. I then ask it to point out where my story sucks and it will also point that out. If I run my text through an AI text detector, I get like 1-2% written by AI which I believe any AI language tool would do. It points out where it detects the AI written text and I work on it and remove the text. GPT has a habit of adding its own text and does not stick to the boundaries set.

So that eventually they create a new terrorist group that flips the script back on them. Sure. I mean, it’s never happened before.

Well, if I am going to push this into the project I envision, privacy is going to be key, so everything will be done locally. I have privacy concerns about running on someone else’s hardware regardless of the provided guardrails and layers of protection I can provide for myself.

I used to use Languagetool and Scribens but found my current working model as the best for me at the moment. I will definitely look at options as I move to the next chapter so Languagetool is still an option. Also, I believe they went AI too? At least online?

I’m an author working on an online story series. Just finished S04. My editing was shit and I could not afford to pay someone to do it for me.

So I write the story, rewrite the story, put it through GPT to point out irregularities, grammatical errors, inconsistencies etc, then run it through Zoho’s Zia for more checks and finally polish it off with a final edit of my own. This whole process takes around a year.

Overall, quality improved, I was able to turn around stuff quicker and it made me a lot more confident about the stuff I am putting out there.

I also use Bing image creator for the artwork and have seen my artwork improve dramatically from what Dream (Wombo) used to generate.

Now I am trying to save up to get a good GPU so that I can run Stable Diffusion so that I can turn it into a graphic novel.

Naturally I would like to work with an artist cause I can’t draw but everyone I meet asks for 20 - 30k dollars deposit to do the thing. Collaborations have been discussed and what I’ve learnt is that as times get tough, people are requesting for greater shares in the project than I, the originator, have. At some point when I was discussing with an artist, he was side lining me and becoming the main character. I’m not saying that all artists are like this, but dang, people can be tough to deal with.

I respect that people have to eat, but I can’t afford that and I have had this dream for years so finally I get a chance to pull it off. My dream can’t die without me giving it my best so this is where I am with AI.

Nice one.