(Frieren 2 episode 6 was delayed a week…)

Still not outta snow, eh?

At least I’m not getting what NYC is getting. I’ve had enough of real snow shoveling for the year.

Ei-en Flux

I’m taking a sterile laptop with me to Japan, with all my credentials securely stored in 1Password and just enough of my usual environment that I could do things like, y’know, blog if I wanted to. Or sign up for a free trial of Amazon Prime in order to buy things they won’t ship internationally.

Note: Amazon’s adult-goods hider is really annoying: if at any time in a session your VPN drops, visiting a single Amazon Japan URL will detect this and flag you as outside Japan, so you can no longer see any “sensitive” products, and searches will come up empty without explanation, making it look like actresses, models, and entire categories of products simply do not exist. I had to log out and back in to reset it. The reverse is also apparently true, so that briefly opening a VPN while in Japan will flag you as a dirty foreigner and pretend that K-cups are only for coffee…

Anyway, I decided to make some fresh safe-for-airline-security wallpaper for the travel laptop.

I used an LLM to generate a list of scenic locations in Japan, and added a list of artists and styles that someone else generated with an LLM. I ran the combination through my dynamic-prompts randomizer, then fed just the random scenes through another LLM for enhancement (better results than feeding the style and location through in one pass), then fed the completed prompts through an LLM instructed to just perform cleanup and QA.

Then I ran the batches through Flux.2-Dev and did a quick pass to eliminate the terrible and the goofy. That produced about 550 images that were good enough to look at for 5-10 seconds. For blogging purposes, I deathmatched it down to a more sensible list. Size is a modest 1440x900, since Flux2 is almost too big to run on an RTX 4090.

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