Kasey On Tech

 My Win11 Pro machine somehow cannot install Affinity by Canvas. This is straight install from the website, as I picked Windows Personal, and it downloaded a MSIX file. The install went to 100%, after downloading 681MB, then errored out with this installer error: App installation failed with error message: AppxManifest.xml(52,6): error 0x80070005: Cannot register the Canva.Affinity_3.2.3.4646_x64__8a0j1tnjnt4a4 package because the following error was encountered while registering the windows.fileTypeAssociation extension: Access is denied. Try again and contact the package publisher if the problem persists. (0x80070005) I am the administrator but I was unable to assign "run as administrator" because this MSIX installer does NOT use permissions. I've retried multiple times, and I've even tried installing the Microsoft Store version. Neither worked.  Turns out the solution is extremely UN-obvious... Download the X86 Enterprise version, NOT the personal version.  This on...

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...