MacOS
How to Run Stable Diffusion on macOS Without a GPU
· β˜• 2 min read
1. Recommended Configuration for Running Stable Diffusion Memory: at least 16 GB DDR4 or DDR5 Storage: at least 10 GB of free space GPU: an NVIDIA card with at least 6 GB of VRAM If your hardware falls short, you can also use one of the various optimized forks that support lower-spec hardware, but generation time will increase.

Reading Btrfs Partition Files on MacOS
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1. Background and Prerequisites Compared with Ext4, Btrfs is a younger file system with more features to play with β€” snapshots, subvolumes, checksum self-verification, software RAID, and even transparent compression. That said, if you do not have the operations capability behind you, it is best not to use Btrfs. This article records the process of pulling a Btrfs disk out of a Synology DSM system and reading its data.

Installing macOS on a Dell OptiPlex 7080MT
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About ten years ago, I installed macOS on a laptop. The biggest headache back then was that only specific hardware could succeed, and drivers for all sorts of things were missing. Later I bought my own Mac laptop and stopped paying attention to how to install macOS on generic machines for a long time.

How to Connect a Remote macOS Physical Machine for Jenkins Pipeline Builds
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This article also applies to connecting physical machines with ARM or MIPS architectures and FreeBSD or Windows systems. If Jenkins can reach the build machine, you can skip the Frp part. 1. The Problem In scenarios where Kubernetes is the infrastructure, when Jenkins runs a build pipeline it creates a separate Pod for each pipeline for building.

Using Homebrew
· β˜• 2 min read
Homebrew is the package manager for OS X, similar to yum on CentOS or apt-get on Ubuntu. From the OS X command line you can install applications with the brew and brew cask commands. 1. Install brew cask 1 brew install brew-cask-completion 2. The Difference Between brew and brew cask The difference between brew and brew cask lies in the type of application they favor.