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My Friend Lost His Illustration Job — Three Months Later He Was Making $4K a Month

My Friend Lost His Illustration Job — Three Months Later He Was Making $4K a Month

AI cost an illustrator his job, then turned him into a comic series director. That is when I realized: the biggest opportunity in the AI era is not learning AI — it is forgetting your specialty.

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mysql-exporter

Preface: Building a monitoring system with Prometheus + Grafana. This article covers monitoring MySQL. Steps include modifying the MySQL exporter config file, installing MySQL exporter, granting MySQL permissions, modifying the Prometheus config file, and adding a Grafana dashboard.

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redis-exporter

Setting up Redis monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana using redis-exporter — installation, Prometheus config, and Grafana dashboard setup.

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JumpServer

JumpServer

Preface: JumpServer is a popular open-source bastion host. If you have many servers to manage and need security auditing, JumpServer is a great choice. This article covers installation, configuration, and basic usage.

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prometheus+grafana

prometheus+grafana

Setting up a monitoring system with Prometheus and Grafana — covering Prometheus server, node-exporter, Grafana dashboard configuration, and Docker deployment.

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sdwebui.ai - Ready-to-Use Native sdwebui

sdwebui.ai - Ready-to-Use Native sdwebui

sdwebui.ai sdwebui.ai is a ready-to-use native online sdwebui. URL: https://www.sdwebui.ai/ Authentic Stable Diffusion WebUI V1.10.1 Top-tier 4090 GPU, premium members get exclusive single 4090 for image generation Supports Mac client, Windows client, and Web online usage

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StableDiffusionWebUI: Detail Repair (ADetailer)

StableDiffusionWebUI: Detail Repair (ADetailer)

Using ADetailer to fix facial and hand details in Stable Diffusion — installation, usage, parallel repair, and model comparison.

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SodaArt - Restore Old Photos in Three Steps

SodaArt - Restore Old Photos in Three Steps

Environment Setup Open https://sodaart.ai/, download the Mac or Windows client, install and open it locally, or click Online Generation to open the web version directly. Step 1: Log in to the homepage Use your phone number + verification code to log in, then click Online Generation. Step 2: Upload old photos in the Extras tab Under Online Generation - Extras tab, upload your old photos. Step 3: Configure

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StableDiffusionWebUI: Old Photo Restoration (GFPGAN)

StableDiffusionWebUI: Old Photo Restoration (GFPGAN)

Preface: One of the use cases for sdwebui is old photo restoration. Common old photo restoration tools existed before sdwebui, including GFPGAN and CodeFormer. However, combining them with Hires.fix in sdwebui yields even better results.

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StableDiffusionWebUI: Image Info (PNG Info)

StableDiffusionWebUI: Image Info (PNG Info)

Preface: PNG Info is a built-in feature of sdwebui that is essential in everyday image generation workflows. It allows you to upload an image, read its meta information, parse the generation parameters, and conveniently send them to other features like txt2img, img2img, and inpainting.

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StableDiffusionWebUI: Embeddings

StableDiffusionWebUI: Embeddings

Preface: Embeddings and text inversion both refer to textual embeddings, which can be simply understood as a collection of prompts used in both negative and positive prompts. Using Embeddings: Installation - After downloading embeddings, place them in stablediffusionwebui/embeddings. Usage - Select the desired embeddings under the embeddings tab.

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StableDiffusionWebUI: LoRA

StableDiffusionWebUI: LoRA

Preface: If checkpoint determines the main effect and style of your generated images, and embeddings mainly serve as negative prompts to avoid undesirable effects, then LoRA is for fine-tuning to achieve the specific effect you want.

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