Some time ago I configured Photostructure on my Synology (with the amazing help of the author, @mceachen) and the most paindful part was rescuing my 1.5TB of photos from Google Photos.
Takeout was very cumbersome to use and download 100+ files of 4gb, so ultimately resorted to paying a higher tier at Google Drive, using takeout Google Drive option and the sync to the NAS.
I still don’t have a good method to keep everything in sync as Google Photos does not offer a viable option for a cloud-to-premises sync.
FWIW all of these projects rely on ExifTool (which people should donate to!) and my open-source node.js wrapper (that adds concurrency, does a ton of extra parsing work, and makes things a bit more ergonomic to live with): https://github.com/photostructure/exiftool-vendored.js
For what is worth, google takeout can export in 50GB tgz.
Downloading the takeout files is miserable through, the download link is only valid when being downloaded via human interaction in a web browser.
There is a silly trick. Start the download, pause it. Get the cookies from the page (only need to do that once for the session). Then copy the download link. Now you can curl on your server. When the file is downloaded, you can then cancel the download in your web browser. And do the same for the next file. One at a time.
Warning: google will cancel downloads if you run more than one or two at a time. After 3 download (failed or not) of a file google will delete the whole takeout.
The amount of engineering they must have deployed to purposefully crimple takeout with plausible deniability must be significant.
This makes more sense. I hate when people talk about taxing the “net worth” of some rich guy when a good part of that net worth is locked into invested companies who are (hopefully) being taxed already.
The borrow scheme should be the thing being taxed really, because is a shadow realization of profit (they are borrowing against the current value of their assets)
This won't be a problem when Apple migrate all macs to OLED as blacks will be true black (no light).
I have a Samsung SD95 that has a glare free chemical coating and it is amazing on rooms with too much light with no greyish black on low light conditions (at least from my personal experience).
Not necessarily as gemini might take other variables in consideration.
But it certainly will make a lot of intermediaries (between brands and consumers) suffer. This is a huge threat for Amazon.
Well onedrive is nothing more than sharepoint disguised as a cloud drive. So they adapted a legacy pre-cloud era code to create a competitor to dropbox and google drive. Imagibe how well that code works…
Yeah this has nothing to do with playing RPG, just a generation of screens.
But it reminded one of the firsts prompts I tried with ChatGPT back in 2022. I asked him to simulate a text-based adventure (based on the discworld universe) and every command I gave it would behave as an open world text RPG. It was pretty mindblowing
Hans Zimmer is my soundtrack of choice for focus (Dune 2 is specially good). Found out that a colleague also had the same taste which was surprising for me, now I imagine it is a common use case for his music.
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