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Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos

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Re: Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos

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Post by scottyah »

jjice wrote: post #27
fulafel wrote: post #22

Does this require associating your phone with a G account?

I believe so. I'd imagine the image has to be uploaded to Google Photos as well, since most of their nice features like personal tagging require that. Part of the reason I switched to an iPhone was for all the on device stuff that Google insists you use the cloud for.

Same, the google phones just absolutely hated that I went into airplane mode frequently but still wanted to do things like listen to music, view and edit notes, etc. God forbid I try to add to my shopping list while camping.

Re: Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos

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Post by tucnak »

fulafel wrote: post #22

Does this require associating your phone with a G account?

One compromise in GrapheneOS is to use Storage Scopes to limit the scope of Google Photos to select folders, or potentially even disable Network permissions for it altogether. I use Google Photos for sharing photos with my partner and family, and I can do this by moving photos around on disk so that they enter the scope. The camera app from Google is great, and so is the keyboard: neither gets Network permission on my phone.

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Post by rurp »

jsheard wrote: post #25
PStamatiou wrote: post #12

What is happening on the Photos team? I know a lot of the core team has left already, but lately it really seems like they are cramming in AI functionality in a way that does not consider the whole experience and it truly feels bolted-on. First they tried to mess with regular search and had to leave in a setting for people to go out of their way to disable it. Google Photos used to be one of my most favorite apps. No…

> lately it really seems like they are cramming in AI functionality in a way that does not consider the whole experience and it truly feels bolted-on. "They" could be just about any major software vendor as of late, it's hardly specific to Google.

For real, even Lowes is doing this crap. I tried looking up a some products on their website with my phone the other day and every product page is now partially obscured by a useless AI widget that can't be removed. They've made their product categorically worse just to check the AI box.

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Post by viraptor »

the_gipsy wrote: post #35

Just yesterday I wanted to simply take the first frame of one of those stupid "motion" photos (that someone else took, but could have happened to me given the weekly UI churn). I tried really hard, but it's just not possible. What I did find was many, many different buttons and icons that start some kind of AI magic enhancement crap.

Pull up, tap on "shots in this photo", scrub to the left, tap on "save copy". It seems fairly straightforward to me.

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Post by jawns »

One of the reasons why I think Google Photos is pushing out this functionality is that these new AI-generated variations count toward your overall storage.

So hey, you take a selfie, 3 MB. And now you want your selfie to show yourself posing in front of the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, the Great Wall of China, and the Grand Canyon. OK, now you've added an additional 12 MB.

Do that often enough, and you'll have to buy another block of Google One storage, which is MRR for Google.

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Post by crtasm »

_aavaa_ wrote: post #69
barbazoo wrote: post #5

Not affiliated, but Immich ( https://immich.app/ ) is a great self-hosted alternative to Google Photos.

With a scary header about not relying on it as your sole photo library.

...because it's still in beta, they're aiming for a first stable release this year.

It's a good idea to have backups/multiple copies regardless of what system you're using.

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