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Uhm... I'm probably "consevative" but if I take a photo I want to have a photo of the moment and not "a variation of the moment"... o_O
Have you never taken a time-sensitive photo that was otherwise perfect but has an annoying visual obstruction (e.g. traffic sign poles, a reflection on a windshield for photos taken out of a moving car etc.)?
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 hav…
I upgraded to 2TB of storage since 15GB just wasn’t cutting it. Two years later, I’m already at a whopping 200GB!
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I’m personally wary of uploading too much private data to any host. I am also a customer of Hetzner, and rent a couple of bare metal servers. But I mostly use it to store data that it wouldn’t be that big of a deal if it was stolen by someone. I’ve previously experimented a bit with encrypted volumes that I manually decrypt over ssh, and even full disk encryption that I manually decrypt over ssh. My experience with H…
> I have experienced critical, unrecoverable hardware failure on Hetzner servers a couple of times over the years How do they handle such situations?
I think there was a form asking for reason for cancelling the server and I ticked something like “other” and left a note for them saying that there was hardware problems. So I would assume they have a look at it, replace the bad components and then rent it out to someone else.
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…
Not affiliated, but Immich ( https://immich.app/ ) is a great self-hosted alternative to Google Photos.
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Oh no. What did they remove?
The biggest function I'm missing is the keystone transformation, but magic eraser is now a cloud-only function that is much worse, they have rearranged the controls so in a way that separated some of the color corrections, and the resize edit handles for the functions that are still available are now rounded in a way that makes it much less clear what you are doing.
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I really tried my best with Immich, but because I didn't want to open a port on my home firewall it made syncing kind of a pain. I ended up going with Ente and have been pretty happy with it.
Tailscale is what I use to solve such issues.
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> I have experienced critical, unrecoverable hardware failure on Hetzner servers a couple of times over the years How do they handle such situations?
I took care of it myself by cancelling my rental of the server and renting a different one. And then setting up that one the way I wanted it and restoring data from my offsite backup. I think there was a form asking for reason for cancelling the server and I ticked something like “other” and left a note for them saying that there was hardware problems. So I would assume they have a look at it, replace the bad compone…
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The biggest function I'm missing is the keystone transformation, but magic eraser is now a cloud-only function that is much worse, they have rearranged the controls so in a way that separated some of the color corrections, and the resize edit handles for the functions that are still available are now rounded in a way that makes it much less clear what you are doing.
The crop interface got way worse in the latest update (the "comic sans" update) as well.
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…
> 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. I feel that everywhere, not just Google. Windows is probably one of the most egregious with copilot being jammed into every app. None of this "AI" stuff feels integrated or even thought out at all. The whole thing is just bolted on and it feels like the only reason…
Seeing copilot shoved into Notepad of all things was probably the worst