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Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by drnick1 »

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

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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?

Google not having access to your email is a huge privacy benefit. Even with email becoming less important, most online services still rely on email for sign up and things such as password recovery. You probably also still receive email receipts for flights and online purchases. These are all data points that I would rather Google/Apple/Microsoft not have.

Besides privacy, running your own server means you can create as many mailboxes/aliases as you like. I give each website/company a distinct alias; this allows me to revoke an alias that becomes problematic, e.g. due to spam. There are no storage limits other than those dictated by your hardware, no maximum attachment size, etc. I am immune to "terms and conditions" changing overnight that suddenly shrink my storage or put features such as IMAP access behind a paywall.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by vitaflo »

doodaddy wrote: post #84

As an Olympus shooter this is good to know. But good gravy that troubleshooting path got expensive real fast. Replacing the laptop and the camera? Why not start by trying something other than Photos? It doesn’t even need to be a paid product; the Olympus software is free not to mention a good baseline since it - of all the applications - should be able to import photos without corrupting them. Edit to add: delete on…

Or stop using the camera to connect to the Mac and just take out the SD card and use a reader like most other photographers do.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by drnick1 »

Atreiden wrote: post #390
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

I use T-Mobile and phone calls, messages (SMS) and 5G data just work. Without Play Services, you will lose RCS probably. I haven't tested as I don't care about vendor-locked protocols. My suggestion would be to use Signal instead.

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Post by inopinatus »

deviation wrote: post #59
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #46

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I have had extremely bad luck, reporting bugs to Apple. They constantly ask for an example project, even if it's something that is easily demonstrated, simply by running existing Apple software, and creating a project, would be a huge pain. They also ignore reports. Very rarely, I may get a ping on one of my reports, asking me to verify that it was fixed in some release. Otherwise, there's no sign that they ever even…

Not to hand wave-- but this feels industry standard IMO. I have a dozen PRs sitting unacknowledged and stale across a handful of FAANG (and other) repos, including Apple's. I start my first day @ Apple in a few weeks, so I ACK that my opinion might be a little biased here.

Industry baseline is slightly worse again e.g. attempt to report a bug in a Microsoft product that a major government customer is experiencing when they use it with our stuff, but Microsoft won't accept the bug report because we don't ourselves have an enterprise support contract with them, and the customer's own relationship with MS is nigh-impossible to navigate because of public sector nonsense.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by KingLancelot »

dmd wrote: post #74
deviation wrote: post #59

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Not to hand wave-- but this feels industry standard IMO. I have a dozen PRs sitting unacknowledged and stale across a handful of FAANG (and other) repos, including Apple's. I start my first day @ Apple in a few weeks, so I ACK that my opinion might be a little biased here.

Maybe you can help bump FB13400242, a bug that is _literally_ going to kill people. (The bug is that to make an emergency call, even from lock screen, you're supposed to be able to squeeze buttons on either side of the phone. But it only works with the volume buttons on the left - the Action button didn't get supported, when that button was added. So now the rule for teaching a small child isn't just "squeeze both si…

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Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by watersb »

iTunes plays audio files. It also has metadata for the audio: Artist, Title, album art, how many times a song has played...

It writes the metadata into the audio file. Badly.

In particular, it's that "Play Count": iTunes rewrites the audio file every time you play the song.

Usually it just corrupts the metadata enough to forget the album art. But it's perfectly willing to destroy the audio data.

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Post by rubatuga »

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

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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…

For those needing a clean IPv4 for mail servers with reverse DNS support, check out https://hoppy.network - I haven't had any deliverability issues, but my domain has been running for over 5 years now. Here's my self hosting blog series - https://www.naut.ca/blog/2020/05/05/self-hosting-series-part...

- Cofounder of Hoppy

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Post by simonh »

PaulHoule wrote: post #332
KerrAvon wrote: post #282

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Maybe you want to rethink that? You're literally responding to a testimonial that it likely saved someone's life. Seconds do matter in some medical emergencies. Also, you may not be aware of Car Crash Detection https://support.apple.com/en-us/104959

To be fair this kind of thing is emotionally manipulative. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has done a lot as a private organization to raise standards for automotive safety but the statistics they publish that show that larger vehicles are safer than larger vehicles are frequently wrongly interpreted -- in many of the cases where the large vehicle does better it's not that you die in the smaller vehicle bu…

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