441–450 of 471 posts
I’ve been seeing this happen on older photos that had imported properly, and I just use my iPhone and view photos on my Mac and iPhone. Looking back, I’ve lost whole chunks of my photo library. It’s a bigger problem than I realized. I don’t have these backed up elsewhere.
You work in IT right? always backup
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Consider hitting up some Apple "watcher" people (e.g. 9to5mac) to see if they can give you a boost on their social media. It's pretty obnoxious that it's come to needing to make a stink like that to get eyeballs on something, but here we are.
This definitely works. When I was at Apple I remember a number of issues in their weekly “bug review board” were classified as being high priority because they were going viral on Twitter.
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.
You may want to take a look at Ente for photos, too :) https://ente.io/ I am a happy self-hosting user.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This definitely works. When I was at Apple I remember a number of issues in their weekly “bug review board” were classified as being high priority because they were going viral on Twitter.
now this is agile QA
There were certain photographers and publications, that, if they got upset, all hands were on deck, for even the most innocuous bugs.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nobody ever changes anything and new hires should have no aspirations or goals but to be code monkeys. Your outlook on career growth is nihilistic, not realistic.
Your outlook is not realistic.
I have made no claim or assertion other than that. If that's not realistic to you, then I sincerely and genuinely would advise you to seek therapy, because that sounds like depression.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had this with some old photos but you can quickly rsync preserving metadata and then use exiftool to fill in the time and the whole thing will always work. After that I pasted it in Google Photos and it’s correctly in the timeline. Remarkable how easy this stuff is these days with LLM.
> I had this with some old photos but you can quickly rsync preserving metadata and then use exiftool to fill in the time and the whole thing will always work. Sorry, I'm not sure if I'm missing something, but what's rsync's role in this?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
A five year old is going to find "just squeeze" easier than doing that.
five year olds shouldn't have a phone, and should be supervised. even if they have a phone, they are unlikely to handle it with the care it requires.
I've not experienced corruption like the author, since my workflow involves copying the raw files from sdcard to harddrive, and then importing into Photos. After processing the raws in Photos, I export a .jpg back out to the filesystem. That's because my worry is corruption of the entire Library, which Photos stores as one gigantic opaque file/directory abomination. My .photoslibrary file is currently 70gb in size, a…
> That's because my worry is corruption of the entire Library, which Photos stores as one gigantic opaque file/directory abomination. My .photoslibrary file is currently 70gb in size, and I'm terrified of what would happen if it becomes corrupted. It's a folder that acts like a file. Right click > Show Package Contents works, and there's an "originals" folder that should have all your photos in normal everyday files.
The point is that - from a data safety standpoint - it would be better if all of the internal metadata were persisted per album, if not per photo. That way one corrupted file would only affect a small subset, rather than causing me to lose the whole library.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I may be out of the loop, but can't google just kill GrapheneOS anytime it wants? I never tried it out because I assumed that in the near future it won't be compatible with banking and messaging apps. Do they have a long term plan to exist in 5-10 years?
My banking app didn't work for a while on Graphene OS, but now it does again. In the interim I was able to use the bank's mobile website in a pinch. Password manager apps (I've tried Bitwarden and KeePassDX) integrate with the hardened Vanadium browser and made signing in a breeze. I lost immediate transaction notifications, but it was at least tolerable. I suspect banks won't ever be able to take their web portals d…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dumb frat-boy innuendos count as personality now, huh? Let's just leave aside the fact that the name genuinely made many people uncomfortable and unwelcome there (it did), it was also just teenage and immature. There's ways to inject personality and fun into a social experience without giggling about sex. Talk about lowest common denominator...
> Dumb frat-boy innuendos count as personality now, huh? There are many personalities. Not everything has to be mature
Is a "mature personality" mature ? How do you test for it ? /s