#Stable Diffusion

Running ComfyUI + WAI-Illustrious on an RTX 4060 Laptop (8GB VRAM)

ComfyUI + WAI-Illustrious v16.0 on an RTX 4060 Laptop (8GB VRAM). Generates 1024x1024 in 15 seconds without lowvram, even with LoRA.

13 Failed LoRA Training Runs on Mac M1 Max, Then Success on RunPod

Went 0-for-13 trying to train an Illustrious-XL LoRA on a Mac Studio M1 Max 64GB. With help from multiple AI agents, pinpointed the root causes and finally succeeded on a RunPod RTX 4090. The full record: three fatal parameters and the sd-scripts trap.

Z-Image — Alibaba’s image generator that reportedly surpasses FLUX

Overview of Alibaba’s Z-Image and how it compares to FLUX and Stable Diffusion. A 6B-parameter model that runs on low VRAM and ranks first among open-source models.

LoRA: Setting Up a Training Environment on an RTX 3060 Laptop (6 GB VRAM)

Step-by-step guide to building a LoRA training environment on Windows 11 with an RTX 3060 Laptop (6 GB VRAM) using kohya_ss — from caption writing to VRAM-saving settings.

Setting Up LLM/RAG for Work, So I Tried LoRA Training on the Side (Part 1)

Introducing a Mac mini M4 Pro to build an in-house RAG system. A plan for setting up a LoRA training environment during downtime while waiting for specs to be finalized.