@Dever Just took a closer look at the comparisons. I gotta say, besides the heart, the others are mostly subjective. but there is a clear difference, so there's that. I was gonna try flux but then it wants me to go to some site and download some key, and probably let the corporation passively harvest my data. Like, no thx..

@vangche609 I'm not a nutter.. I'm just reasonably cautious, and not blind to what corporations actually do/getaway with. It's stuff that's actively in the news, not made up theories held together by yarn on a bulletin board. Like the crap that Facebook got in shit for. Corporations harvest our data all the time in order to sell it for a buck. Banks also actively use our money to make investments and such (please don't come back with a moron response to that, look it up). I still use banks, and I still use this site, but I do like to maintain SOME level of privacy. So, I don't just do things blindly.

But yea, of course I don't read terms, ever, cuz if I read terms for everything I clicked on, then reading terms would become my whole life, my full-time job. Cuz those damn legal documents are each like a small novel long. They're like that by design I'm sure. Easier to get people to sign their lives away if you make it unreasonable for them to read the terms of every contract they sign.

Corporate lawyers use similar strategy when the company they're defending is asked to hand over sensitive documents that could incriminate them. They send ALL the documents, so that the lawyers on the other side (more often than not, lawyers with fewer resources and a lower budget) will never make it through all the paperwork to find what they need, or will fail to find the incriminating parts within the mass dataset.

Most of what corporations do is relatively harmless, but nevertheless, just because most people don't break into houses, doesn't mean you leave your doors unlocked at night.

@Lazman not sure what key you are referring to, you can just download comfy, download the model right here on civitai and run it locally. You can even run without internet if you are paranoid or just block it on firewall, more practical

@realisticapple The official flux model is downloaded from hugface, and requires some form of key to use it. I ended up getting it some time ago. Got all that stuff figured out. I even got the flux models on here and shnell working. I just use a separate, fully updated comfy instlal with the manager for accessing that stuff, and use my main comfy install for everything else.