Kasey On Tech

One day, I was browsing Temu, when I came across this 6-key macro keyboard with a twist knob, and it's for a ridiculous price of like... $13.93 with free shipping.  So I ordered one.  It's here, and it's exactly as advertised... Except for one thing: there is no manual, and no driver. There is NO paper in the box either. And the listing has no instructions.  However, it is basically this item on Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Keyboard-Mechanical-Photoshop-Software/dp/B0B7B4MP29/ At least the Amazon seller put up a link to their copy of the driver: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MvJGXrs-HVSmthIK4Z8NJZKMB8Ha4ZSr/view Which I have scanned and tested. And it works for the Temu one too. It's the same board.  The program needs to be unzipped and copied to a directory on your HD. It has no "installer".  The EXE is called "MINI Keyboard V02.1.1" The interface is also pretty crap, But basically, it goes like this.  The "keys" are mapp...

Everybody is talking about AI. ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney...  (By the way, if you ran out of credits on Midjourney, Blue Willow will let you generate UNLIMITED amount of art. Maybe there will be more invites... ) And someone made something that can run on your home gaming PC... Provided you have a good (read: gaming) video card... Called Invoke.ai. It's so good, they're going commercial .  So why am I talking about this? Turns out, you *can* still download and install InvokeAI on your own PC . It just requires a little more work.  So I went ahead and downloaded the installer... run it, and promptly hit a bug...  invokeAI configuration error: npyscreen module not found Searching the net shows this problem is fairly well-know, but nobody had tracked down what caused this problem or have a fix for it. Someone claimed manually installing the stuff works, but it did not work for me.  I happen to know a little Python (both the programming and the environme...