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Easy Stable Diffusion XL in your device, offline

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Re: Easy Stable Diffusion XL in your device, offline

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Post by cellularmitosis »

liuliu wrote: post #39
miles wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you the developer by any chance? If so, it would be helpful to state it.

I am. I thought this is obvious. My statement is objective. I would go as far as: it is the only app works at 8GiB macOS devices with SDXL-family models.

"You should check out this thing" has a very different implied context than "You should check out this thing I made". The first sounds like a recommendation from an enthusiastic user, not from the the author. Because of this, discovering that you are the author makes your recommendation feel deceptive.

Re: Easy Stable Diffusion XL in your device, offline

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Post by brucethemoose2 »

Filligree wrote: post #58
Liquix wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

installation/setup is dead simple. up and running in under 3 minutes: git clone https://github.com/lllyasviel/Fooocus.git cd Fooocus pip3 install -r requirements_versions.txt python3 entry_with_update.py

Let's see... > pip3: command not found Okay. I'll need to install it? What package might that be in, hmm. Moving on, I already know it's python. > /usr not writeable Guess I'll use sudo... = = = Obviously I know better than to do this, but very few people would . This is not 'dead simple'! It's only simple for Python programmers who are already familiar with the ecosystem. Now, fortunately the actual documentation do…

There are projects that set up "fat" Python executables or portable installs, but the problem in PyTorch ML projects is that the download would be many gigabytes.

Additionally, some package choices depend on hardware.

In the end, a lot of the more popular projects have "one click" scripts for auto installs, and there are some for Fooocus specifically, but the issue there is its not as visible as the main repo, and not necessarily something the dev wants to endorse.

Re: Easy Stable Diffusion XL in your device, offline

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Post by jessepasley »

pmarreck wrote: post #31
brucethemoose2 wrote: post #23

I would highly recommend Fooocus to anyone who hasn't tried: https://github.com/lllyasviel/Fooocus There are a bajillion local SD pipelines, but this one is, by far , the one with the highest quality output out-of-the-box, with short prompts. Its remarkable. And thats because it integrates a bajillion SDXL augmentations that other UIs do not implement or enable by default. I've been using stable diffusion since 1.5 c…

Have to build it yourself on Mac, and we all know how "fun" building Python projects is

Just spent about 10 minutes building it on MacBook Pro M1. I come with significant bias against Python projects, but getting Fooocus to run was very, very easy.

Re: Easy Stable Diffusion XL in your device, offline

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Post by Vicinity9635 »

philote wrote: post #29
rgbrgb wrote: post #14

Just installed, this is very cool. Local AI is the future I want (and what I'm working on too). A few notes using it... Pros: - seems pretty self contained - built in model installer works really well and helps you download anything from CivitAI (I installed https://civitai.com/models/183354/sdxl-ms-paint-portraits ) - image generation is high quality and stable - shows intermediate steps during generation Cons: - do…

Another con is it only works on Silicon Macs.

Apple Silicon* I presume?

This could honestly be the excuse I need (want) to order an absolute beast of a macbook pro to replace my 2013 model.

Re: Easy Stable Diffusion XL in your device, offline

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Post by rsynnott »

ttul wrote: post #49
wsgeorge wrote: post #7

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Currently using SDXL (through Huggingface Diffusers) on an M1 16GB Mac. Takes on average 4-5mins to generate an image. It's usable.

Good lord. I can get a 2048x2048 upscaled output from a very complex ComfyUI workflow on a 4090 in 15 seconds. This includes three IPAdapter nodes, a sampling stage, a three-stage iterative latent upscaler, and multiple ControlNets. Macs are not close to competitive for inference yet.

I mean, a 4090 would appear to cost $2000, and came out a year ago; it has about 70bn transistors. The M1 could be had for $700 for a desktop, $1000 as part of a laptop, came out three years ago, and has 16bn transistors, some of which are CPU.

An M3 Ultra might be a more reasonable comparison for the 4090.

Re: Easy Stable Diffusion XL in your device, offline

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Post by calamari4065 »

brucethemoose2 wrote: post #23

I would highly recommend Fooocus to anyone who hasn't tried: https://github.com/lllyasviel/Fooocus There are a bajillion local SD pipelines, but this one is, by far , the one with the highest quality output out-of-the-box, with short prompts. Its remarkable. And thats because it integrates a bajillion SDXL augmentations that other UIs do not implement or enable by default. I've been using stable diffusion since 1.5 c…

Is this at all usable on a CPU-only system with a ton of RAM?

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Post by [deleted] »

brucethemoose2 wrote: post #23

I would highly recommend Fooocus to anyone who hasn't tried: https://github.com/lllyasviel/Fooocus There are a bajillion local SD pipelines, but this one is, by far , the one with the highest quality output out-of-the-box, with short prompts. Its remarkable. And thats because it integrates a bajillion SDXL augmentations that other UIs do not implement or enable by default. I've been using stable diffusion since 1.5 c…

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Re: Easy Stable Diffusion XL in your device, offline

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Post by mikae1 »

rgbrgb wrote: post #14

Just installed, this is very cool. Local AI is the future I want (and what I'm working on too). A few notes using it... Pros: - seems pretty self contained - built in model installer works really well and helps you download anything from CivitAI (I installed https://civitai.com/models/183354/sdxl-ms-paint-portraits ) - image generation is high quality and stable - shows intermediate steps during generation Cons: - do…

> not open source like competitors

Who are the competitors?

Re: Easy Stable Diffusion XL in your device, offline

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Post by zirgs »

Liquix wrote: post #42
rvz wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looks like a complete contraption to setup and looks very unpleasant to use at first glance when compared against Noiselith. The hundreds of python scripts and having the user to touch the terminal shows why something like Noiselith should exist for normal users rather than developers or programmers. I would rather take a packaged solution that just works over a bunch of scripts requiring a terminal.

installation/setup is dead simple. up and running in under 3 minutes: git clone https://github.com/lllyasviel/Fooocus.git cd Fooocus pip3 install -r requirements_versions.txt python3 entry_with_update.py

Or you can use Stability Matrix package manager.
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