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Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by jonahx »

drnick1 wrote: post #372
jonahx wrote: post #361

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you deal with deliverability issues on the self hosted email server. I've always heard that's a hard or at least finicky problem.

I think the deliverability issues boil down to i) IP, ii) domain age, iii) DKIM setup. The only one that is difficult to get around is i) I suppose; I am fortunate enough to have access to a clean IPv4 in a non-residential block. If you are facing deliverability issues, consider a relay service such as mailgun. That being said, I mostly receive email, and the privacy benefits of running my own server would still be s…

Thanks for that answer.

Re: the privacy benefits, is it just that Google (or whoever) has no access to your mail, or is there another benefit? I'm not doubting, just trying to understand specifically what you protect against? And how much is the benefit diminished, if at all, if most of your correspondents are on a BigMailServer?

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Post by mulmen »

I recently bought a house and the seller included some slides from when he bought the house in 1993. They are still clear and visible, even without a projector. I highly doubt I will be able to share my iCloud photos in 2057.

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Post by gyomu »

CharlesW wrote: post #272

"I don’t know if this is a problem that is specific to OM System cameras, and I’m not particularly interested in investing in a new camera system just to find out." A better way to have further narrowed down the problem down to Actually iPhoto would've been to do the same tests with a USB-C card reader plugged directly into the Mac, which would've eliminated cables, hubs, and camera hardware/software/firmware as poss…

> the camera manual addresses that "USB transfers aren’t guaranteed in some setups"

That is a... pretty damning thing to have in your user manual. I've owned many cameras over the years, and I don't think I've ever seen a manufacturer hedge basic functionality like this.

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Post by Gigachad »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #116
ValentineC wrote: post #104

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What's worse about the Apple ecosystem is that because of how tightly coupled it is, a bug fix for Photos would only come as part of a macOS update. Which means that if that bug has been present since the (now unsupported) Mavericks, tough luck!

MacOS updates are several per year though. If a fixes found (and the bug considered a high enough priority) it could show up before 2025 is up.

It’s more a problem for Macs not supported with OS updates like the 2019 13” models right now.

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Post by Gigachad »

jonahx wrote: post #381
drnick1 wrote: post #372

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the deliverability issues boil down to i) IP, ii) domain age, iii) DKIM setup. The only one that is difficult to get around is i) I suppose; I am fortunate enough to have access to a clean IPv4 in a non-residential block. If you are facing deliverability issues, consider a relay service such as mailgun. That being said, I mostly receive email, and the privacy benefits of running my own server would still be s…

Thanks for that answer. Re: the privacy benefits, is it just that Google (or whoever) has no access to your mail, or is there another benefit? I'm not doubting, just trying to understand specifically what you protect against? And how much is the benefit diminished, if at all, if most of your correspondents are on a BigMailServer?

Tbh no one really corresponds over email anymore. And most email is sent via Amazon and other email services. So I guess Google can’t read your receipts and bills anymore.

But the main benefit of moving your email off Google is they can’t nuke your email account when the AI decides you are a bot or whatever.

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Post by indrora »

formerly_proven wrote: post #165
indrora wrote: post #87

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Speed. It all comes down to speed. Processing RAW can be expensive time wise. If you’re sorting through a session of 10,000 photos, you want the speed that comes with the jpeg variant, which allows you to quickly sort out blurry, smeared, severely mis-exposed, and other various defect photos. The storage cost is negligible (JPEG75@10MP is cheap) and the workflow benefit is immediate. Additionally, cropping and early…

> Speed. It all comes down to speed. GP isn't wrong though. Most cameras embed a medium quality full-resolution JPEG along a couple different thumbnails in raw files, so saving raw+normal JPG is kinda pointless, because the raw already contains that jpeg. Raw+jpg is only easier in the sense that many/most non-vendor tools - even viewers - can't properly handle the embedded jpg so it's easier to just duplicate the sto…

My Olympus camera only embeds 1MP thumbnails in RAWs, but my iPhone embeds full JPEGs.

It varies by vendor and sometimes even firmware revision.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by [deleted] »

inanutshellus wrote: post #71
deviation wrote: post #12

It seems to be an import pipeline bug. Photos does a lot of extra work on import (merging RAW+JPEG pairs, generating previews, database indexing, optional deletion), so my guess is a concurrency bug where a buffer gets reused or a file handle is closed before the copy finishes. Rare, nondeterministic corruption fits the profile.

Interesting that he went from 30% failure to it taking a while to find a single failure after replacing everything. Random is random, and random is clumpy, so maybe swapping parts is irrelevant, but... I wanted more detail how often the corruption happened throughout his replacement journey. edit: also wth i just realized I went to "tenderlovemaking.com" at work. gross. lol.

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Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by Atreiden »

drnick1 wrote: post #342

You couldn't pay me to go back to using anything made by Apple or Google. I use a GrapheneOS Pixel and my self-hosted "cloud" with Nextcloud, HomeAssitant, and my own email server and the control and performance are unrivaled by any of the Big Tech crapware. I could start self-hosting an AI chatbot I suppose, but these do not seem to have reached the point of enshiffication yet as relatively new services.

What do you use for a phone provider? I have a Pixel and want to run GrapheneOS, but I'm on Google Fi and believe I'll lose some functionality if I do so. Wondering what plan you use and how it's working for you
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