Tag: ai

Gemini First Use – But Not Last

I’ve watched the Gemini button at the end of the Google search box for a few weeks ? Months?, but I’ve never tried it until today. Today I had a problem installing Java on Linux and I let Gemini help.

Background

A while ago I wrote a Java program to display artwork in the form of LibreOffice Impress files. The Showrunner program takes a list of Impress files and displays them one after the other and starts the first one after the last one. It is written in Java so that it’s easy to use on Windows or Linux.

I just got a new Mini system [5″ x 5″ x 3″] system. Basically a folded up laptop with 16GB RAM, 500GB SSD and it came with Windows 11 Pro – Yuck. So my first task was to install Linux Mint 22.3.

Installing Linux Mint 22.3 went without a hitch. But to use ShowRunner I needed to install Java. I tried to just install it. And that looked like it worked, but didn’t when I tried to run the program.

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Run AI Locally

Note: While the Banner for this post, and the images were created by AI, the text was created, for better or worse solely by me.

As you may have, I’ve been watching the progress of AI to generate images and even videos for a couple of years now. I’ve not been interested in “signing up” for one of the services since it is pretty clear that it will run into a lot of money to do anything serious. However, I have a couple of extra computers with GPUs so I thought it would be time to try to run AI image generation locally.

ComfyUI Seems Too Complex

I took a look at ComfyUI. It looks way too complex. While I’m familiar with the concept of connecting the boxes – from texture creation in Blender among other places – I’d rather just check some boxes and paste in a prompt.

After some looking around I found Pinokio.

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