Pinokio is Reinventing the Wheel... and/or Crap

[sriks6711]

Pinokio reminds me so much about an XKCD comic about 'standards'. Installing AI, especially from academia, is a pain and Docker has it mostly solved if people cared to release images/containers of working environments. Rather, there is now a Pinokio 'standard' and every application on Pinokio tries to download half of the internet with many, if not all applications just throw up the blue-screen-of-death. For example, EchoMimic and Hallo. Some applications do not even work with 1-click but one has to copy the URL.

The frustration is mostly to do with how a neat idea (of AI-Browser) has been chosen to be implemented. Conda/Virtual-Environments are once again, a good idea in theory but the irony is they keep failing in Pinokio and elsewhere. I keep seeing 'activating' and 'deactivating' of environments, library incompatibilities, changes to requirements.txt not being picked up and the list goes on and easily, 100s of bugs of me trying Pinokio things out on a lazy weekend during the holidays.

Is Pinokio even relevant when there are HuggingFace-Spaces and Replicate and other lesser known AI-Aggregators?

@cocktailpeanut - If you want to solve the problem of a user-friendly AI-Browser in the smartest way possible by learning from best-practices and experts in the domain, we are willing to sponsor - in money and machines. If you intend to keep pursuing this repetitive clueless brute-force approach (and just to be clear, not that there is nothing wrong with that) you have lost a fan and a patron. Looking at how many bugs and issues and tickets there are, clearly, many people are having troubles when they do not have to.

Either way, good luck...

[edit] - changed 'crap' is title to 'disappointing' as I might gave been too harsh