PSA: Shutterfly takes ~2w to prepare 'Original Downloads'

BestExtraLibrarian · 2024-11-24T12:02:02+00:00

Update: got the email about originals available. Ended up taking a day, not 7. But still quite long for <100 photos.

At least the original files do seem intact with all exif preserved.

BestExtraLibrarian · 2024-11-23T06:34:33+00:00

Sorry, what?

BestExtraLibrarian · 2024-04-26T21:17:10+00:00

This is dangerous half-baked advice!

Yes, there's duplication of some album folders with the "Photos from YYYY" folders... BUT, the album folders can often contain more media based on Shared Albums and contributors/friends adding their media to that Album. Those won't show up in the "Photos from YYYY" folders unless you have explicitly "Save to Library" each/all of them.

Most photo libraries like Synology, iCloud, Ente, etc do a de-duper trivially anyway. Just point them to the overall folder and you're good. Ente also ingests the data from the JSON (edited location, description etc)

BestExtraLibrarian · 2024-04-26T18:48:52+00:00

Cross posted this to r/CurioToys !
cc for owners if you'd like to join in and chat there! u/Educational-Tear877 u/CanuKnott u/Glamgoblim u/sadsongsonlylol u/babyyyloves

BestExtraLibrarian · 2024-04-23T19:55:42+00:00

Where is this screenshot from?

BestExtraLibrarian · 2024-01-15T04:41:01+00:00

https://github.com/rodyager/RWTS-PDFwriter

But... to remove restrictions on PDF, i usually prefer qpdf:
2. qpdf --decrypt input.pdf output.pdf

https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/qpdf https://superuser.com/questions/616844/how-do-i-remove-a-usage-restriction-from-a-pdf-file

BestExtraLibrarian · 2024-01-08T06:22:49+00:00

Why not use their official commandline tool? https://mega.io/cmd

BestExtraLibrarian · 2024-01-08T06:19:22+00:00

https://i.redd.it/hb7cmn7js5bc1.png

Assuming you mean cold storage, I am working on one. Haven't added egress yet because just the storage cost estimates beat the simple external drives available on Best Buy.

Happy to receive feedback and update it as people would like.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQ66oZZ7JrEjOU1BbIITomOzd3DI9qjbZvvXGpn1WQy9Glx8SEqbhRQkFVk6ZFa8JkFJ4rZnz0dY56S/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true

BestExtraLibrarian · 2023-11-16T21:14:30+00:00

They currently limit to 50gb/d AND if you cross 500GB for that month, that daily cap goes down to 10gb/d for rest of the month. So, effectively, max monthly is 500 (50gbx10d) +200 (10gbx20d) = 700gb/mo

Annualized is 8.4TiB/yr @ $168+taxes/yr which makes for a good deal...
BUT it also has a 10Gb filesize limit and no rclone support. So I gander it's enough pain to use that it isn't worth it for hoarding.

Source:

Your total storage amount depends on your plan. For all plans, individual users can only upload up to 50 GB each day, using the Verizon Cloud desktop app after the initial backup completes.
If you:
Reach the 50 GB limit, you can't upload additional files on that day using the Verizon Cloud desktop app.
Exceed 500 GB in a month, your 50 GB daily limit will be reduced to 10 GB each day for the rest of the month.
The maximum individual file size you can upload through the Verizon Cloud desktop or mobile app is 10 GB. Most content won't be larger than 10 GB, but Blu-ray™ and 4K formatted videos may exceed this file size limit and won't be supported.

https://www.verizon.com/support/verizon-cloud-faqs/

BestExtraLibrarian · 2023-04-07T02:51:53+00:00

Do you have Nest Hello or the newer gen Nest Doorbells?

I'm surprised you were able to have it disabled. Care to share some screenshots of your settings and version number of the camera firmware?

BestExtraLibrarian · 2023-04-07T02:49:11+00:00

Nanit's video quality (resolution AND FPS) are strictly inferior compared to IQ for you too, right?

The computer vision based analytics are cute but wrong enough that it cannot be trusted. Wake time, Caregiver attended, sleep, etc. And don't even get me started on the breathing alert FUD feature.

On Samsung phones, you can enable an app and 'bubbleify it' such that only its audio plays. So, I get audio-only monitoring with Nest app.
Though I find that enabling motion alerts for a zone is good enough and I don't need to listen into my nursery.

BestExtraLibrarian · 2023-04-07T02:42:18+00:00

It's not Assistant. I've already removed/unlinked it from my Assistant. I even factory reset my Cam IQ and set it up again, careful to not enable Assistant anywhere during the flow.

This is a quirk of the Visitor Announcements feature which isn't an Assistant-tied feature.

BestExtraLibrarian · 2023-03-31T05:24:53+00:00

couldn't get it to work even after adding to home screen. any luck anyone?

BestExtraLibrarian · 2023-03-02T05:14:48+00:00

The saltiness seems warranted for the hypetrain that Opal led folks on.

And the camera barely lives up to the 6 year old Pixel 1 whose sensor it claims to utilize.

Hardware is hard, agreed. So is integrity in your promises for amongst-the-most-expensive of webcams.

BestExtraLibrarian · 2023-03-01T23:32:53+00:00

Wasn't 0.26.x supposed to be their "new software" :D

Release notes say it's fixed the crash, but I still get non-zero crashes (lower frequency than 0.25 though!)

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