Ek-Hou-Van-Braai

joined 8 months ago

They've released 'Platinum Premium' in a few countries now.

If you're a paying Premium user, you now get adds to upgrade to 'Platinum Premium' which is just features you used to have that have moved to a more expensive plan and AI

You don't have unlimited storage though.

Google will patch your exploit eventually and you could lose all your data.

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Cool so you don't have unlimited storage and might lose everything if Google decides to patch the exploit you're using.

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 8 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Google Photos isn't free. You are the product.

Also it's literally not free, it's cheaper to host Immich than it is to pay for storage indefinitely

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I think you can select all folders, I recommend taking the path I did. Run Immich in parallel with Google-Photos for a few months and see if you like it.

I did so an synced my camera roll from my phone (~6000 photos) and it works great. I also added some family members etc. and they also like it.

Now in the process of moving everything over.

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Yes, although I don't know thaaaat much about the details. So my mind can be changed if I'm missing something.

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It would be great if there was kind of cleanup plugin for Immich.

Like Tinder for pics you want to keep or dump. I could spend 10min every day in the train to swipe left or right on pics I want to keep or remove.

 

I've been running Immich for about 6 months now, and it's smooth and stable.

I've synced my camera roll to it and loving it.
Next step is to move the ~150gb of media on Google-Photos over.
How do I best do that?

I also have some other issues I'd like to address before or after the migration:

  1. I have a bunch of crap mixed into my Google photos, old WhatsApp images from meme groups I used to be in etc.
  2. Thousands of photos of Ex girlfriends mixed in (not exactly sure what to do about these)

Is there a way to siff through these efficiently and keep what I want? I have ~20k photos some dating back to 2006 so it feels like a mountain to climb.

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 5 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I'm a fan, people shouldn't vote for a person but for representatives. And those representatives should have power based on how many votes they have and decide on laws.

I like how the EU works, it's flawed in ways but there is no huge concentration of power in one person.

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 27 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Billionaires control both the Democrats and the Republicans.

As long as the two party system exists a candidate that isn't in the pocket of Oligarchs doesn't stand a chance.

Money wins elections in the US

I'm doing my part

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yea it sucks, but quality is important so I get it.

 

A century ago, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania fought to free themselves from Russian rule—only to be conquered again by the Soviet Union during World War II. When the USSR collapsed in 1991, they emerged devastated but determined to rebuild on Western terms. Over the next three decades, they transformed from poor post-Soviet republics into some of Europe’s fastest-growing economies—embracing democracy, digitalization, and NATO protection. But after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the old fear returned. Now, the Baltic State s are pouring billions into defense, fortifying borders, and training citizens to fight. Having risen from oppression to prosperity once before, they know exactly what they stand to lose.

 

The investor who bet against the US housing market in the run-up to the 2007 financial crisis has now placed a significant wager on the collapse of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom.

 
 

Here's a full write-up on the first year of my Home-Lab: https://piefed.social/post/1002037

Since then I've now added networking and a self built 10" rack, I was undecided between MikroTik and UniFi but ended up going UniFI and I'm quite happy.

Building the 2020 Aluminum profile 10" server rack was a lot of fun and I learnt a lot of lessons along the way like:

  • Cutting perfectly straight with a hacksaw is a bitch and nearly impossible (or at least for me) would not recommend.
  • Buy a table saw or have them pre-cut
  • Tapping threads yourself is a lot of fun, and I would recommend doing it yourself, worked perfectly every time.
  • Bolt length and head size matters, even 1mm matters (that's what she said)

It's jankey I know, but I love it and it's a lot less Jankey than when everything was just on my desk

Next step for me would be to buy a 3D Printer (Sovol S6 Plus Ace) and print custom racks for everything

Shout out to https://www.motedis.com/ for the Aluminum parts, they can cut and tap all the parts to your desired length if you don't want to bother with that, but that's half the fun (and frustration)

 

Here's a full write-up on the first year of my Home-Lab: https://piefed.social/post/1002037

Since then I've now added networking and a self built 10" rack, I was undecided between MikroTik and UniFi but ended up going UniFI and I'm quite happy.

Building the 2020 Aluminum profile 10" server rack was a lot of fun and I learnt a lot of lessons along the way like:

  • Cutting perfectly straight with a hacksaw is a bitch and nearly impossible (or at least for me) would not recommend.
  • Buy a table/mitre saw or have them pre-cut
  • Tapping threads yourself is a lot of fun, and I would recommend doing it yourself, worked perfectly every time.
  • Bolt length and head size matters, even 1mm matters (that's what she said)

It's janky I know, but I love it and it's a lot less Janky than when everything was just on my desk

Next step for me would be to buy a 3D Printer (Sovol S6 Plus Ace) and print custom racks for everything

Shout out to https://www.motedis.com/ for the Aluminum parts, they can cut and tap all the parts to your desired length if you don't want to bother with that, but that's half the fun (and frustration)

 

The game is simple:

Two photos side by side
One's made by a human, one's made with AI
Pick the AI one
See if you're right (plus the source/prompt)

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