Preliminary
In the past, I have tried a few things to get local video and image generation to work to my satisfaction. I was irritated for a while that my older macbook didn’t have an M chip because I know you can do some cool stuff with Ollama. But I am not buying a computer every year. That’s unrealistic and wasteful. One of my recent stunts involved trying to get fable to setup a workflow on comfyUI. While that’s novel and impressive-looking, the output was poor at best and I was not amused. Node confusion, half of them in languages I cannot read. I already have too many projects, I’m not about to decipher foreign languages on the fly or watch 30 node handling videos on Youtube over the course of 3 months. Time is a real factor here.
With the 3rd extension of free fable use I’m squeezing every last drop out of it. I’m not wasting it either - I’ve got it dropping all kinds of notes to my vault so I can reproduce things on my own later. And honestly, that’s serious real world value for my workflow.
Before I ramble, I must give credit to Youtuber Richard Aragon for sharing his magnificent google colab notebook. I stumbled into this whole process on accident looking for videos about quantization in an effort to know more about what the eff is quantization really. Little did I know this attempted deep dive would lead me down a path to resolve a personal problem of local generation. By the way, he mentions being able to do this on a 4060, so guys, all is not lost if you have a little bit of patience and good timing. I have come to find out that as developers we have unparalleled patience. So then, this post is for you. If I can save a single person from massive frustration, then I have done my job. It is better to share than to hoard. Because, like Richard Aragon, I would much prefer to share and help. <3
