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Stable Diffusion for broke people? (lemmyonline.com)
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Since the shutdown of SD on Colab, is there any option for running SD without disposable income?

I know about StableHorde, but it doesn't seem to really... Well, work. Not for people without GPUs to gain Kudos on at least. It always gives a 5+ minute long queue and then ends up erroring out before that time runs out.

EDIT: It took me a while to set up. but as it turns out, my best option is in fact my 10-year-old computer with a 2GB AMD card. Using the DirectML fork of the WebUI with --lowvram runs pretty damn well for me. It's not as fast as Colab was, but it's not slow by any means. I guess the best advice in the end is, even if you're on a shitbox, try it, your shitbox might surprise you. So take note, though, that running on 2GB Vram doesn't work for everyone, only the luckiest of broke mfs can do that it seems.

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[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Have you tried running it on yoru PC? Comfy UI seems to run it on a potato

[–] whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I think Automatic1111 runs on most CPUs, but you need a lot of ram.

[–] Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 1 points 1 year ago

I didn't have any hope for being able to run it locally, but regardless, I've been getting it set up on and off all day. Well, as it turns out, I'm lucky enough to be able to generate with DirectML and 2GB VRAM in a not-terrible amount of time.

To test, I generated a couple of simple prompts. This one is from 'a poster for Sex the movie'. It's not NSFW, but I'd say it's suggestive... in a weird, warped way. I didn't use any negatives to test.