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which VPS do you recommend? by nicgentile in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[-] nicgentile@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

One of the best decisions I made, two years later. 💪

Do you selfhost your own blog/website? by nicgentile in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[-] nicgentile@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

I self host a Grav site among other things on a 15 Euro VPS.

Also, I started with Ghost but the fact that they locked up the newsletter side of business to a single provider and were unwilling to rework things at the time made me walk away. Yes, I know you could go code side, and add others, but that was a complicated setup in itself. Grav works perfectly for me.

linux or windows? by nicgentile in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] nicgentile@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

Permanently Linux since 2001. Debian is life.

What was the first song you played after you got the car you always wanted or your first car? by nicgentile in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] nicgentile@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I played Royal by Deon Custom and KRNE

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What was the first song you played after you got the car you always wanted or your first car? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by nicgentile@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Current best lemmy clients by nicgentile in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[-] nicgentile@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Boost

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Looking for a tool/website recommendation (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by nicgentile@lemmy.world to c/artificial_intel@lemmy.ml

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For a long time, I've wanted to explore the possibility of creating a graphic novel. I am an author, have a small website that people subscribe to, and pay, and when I was discussing this with my people, they were extremely interested in a graphic novel based on my stuff. I can't draw, and I can't afford an illustrator, so this solves the problem.

I sprung $22 for OpenAI Dalle 3. Started off great, was struggling with consistency, but it was decent. Then the quality of images just tumbled.

I tried Bing Image Creator/Designer. The quality is the best. Again Dalle 3, but Microsoft don't have tools like inpainting, and consistency is a pain in the ass.

Brings me to this. Is there a service, which pushes Dalle 3 or something of equal measure, that does not use Discord (I prefer a web interface), does not force a specific art style on you, and has tools like inpainting, and goes someway to help with consistency? I am willing to pay.

Tools I have tried and will not use.

Nightcafe - Really good platform. Quality is meh for my type of stuff. Wombo - Started here, very basic and needs you to use one of their art styles. Go without and you get Picasso on acid sort of images. StarryAI - Also good, but can't seem to get the right quality.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Sell us on your favorite exotic/niche distro by nicgentile in c/linux@programming.dev

[-] nicgentile@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Not exactly Linux, but Haiku. Been rooting for them for years. Because I used BeOS and I must admit, it was light years ahead of the rest. Haiku though does not seem to be doing too well.

Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims by nicgentile in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] nicgentile@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Been using Boost since it was a Reddit client. By default, it is my go to.

Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims by nicgentile in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] nicgentile@lemmy.world 49 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The irony

I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake by nicgentile in c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

[-] nicgentile@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

Got locked out of my PayPal account but I apparently can't close it.

A couple of years ago I was running a growing loans business on r/loans and the other one. One day, I got scammed. Loaned someone money and when it came to pay day, they reported me to welch out of the deal.

It took 180 days to get the money I had on my account. I tried closing the account and PayPal would not let me. It's been years and all I get are notices of terms and marketing stuff. I try to unsubscribe and it keeps coming so I mark it as spam but Gmail does not care.

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How to reset a locked iPad? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by nicgentile@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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At my work, they recently cleared out the lost and found and were going to trash stuff. I ended up with a clean practically new iPad. The previous owner was not contactable for over a year. He left his Apple details on and his passcode was 12345 (I kid you not). I want to unlock it from his Apple account so that I can hard reset it. What can I do here?

*Edit: So, after exploring it a bit more, I found a password list in the Passwords. Literally, the first password I put in was the correct one. Lol. It has been freed.

Sen. John Fetterman and wife Giselle taken to hospital after car crash in Maryland by nicgentile in c/politics@lemmy.world

[-] nicgentile@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This. For the past 3 months I've been driving down the 95 at dawn. Around 5.30 AM it's every person for themselves. Around this time, people casually cruise at 80mph. The person forcing you to move from the overtaking lane while your car is breaking a sweat at 85mph is an unmarked cop car trying to get to wherever faster than you are. Cops drive far worse here. It's the one place PG cops just let shit slide. You don't bring your nonsense to the 95 at dawn.

Writers of Lemmy, what good character qualities/virtues do your main characters have that you don't? by nicgentile in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] nicgentile@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I write about bad guys. All my characters are bad guys. One is greedy and manipulative, whereas the other one is a violent sociopath, while the other is a womaniser and finally a thrill junkie who loves to watch people get beat up. I'm working on the aspect that the sociopath and thrill junkie are also serial arsonists.

I don't agree with what my characters do, but they represent an untold story. I have little interest in making my characters likeable and instead more like the person they are supposed to be. Bad guys.

Self-hosted website for posting web novel/fiction by nicgentile in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[-] nicgentile@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I'm sorry. I thought I had replied to this. Yes. That Grav.