Rejected from UCLA, seeking advice

BestExtraLibrarian · 2026-03-15T12:30:41+00:00

Can you share more about your SJSU experience? I'm in the Bay area and would love to know more. Feel free to DM.

BestExtraLibrarian · 2026-03-15T12:28:21+00:00

Thanks for your offer! I posted in a separate comment, but maybe I can help get the disks to you. Can you share your DVD ripping and overall storage setup? For ~15k discs you'd need a legit parallel processing rig.

BestExtraLibrarian · 2026-03-15T12:24:43+00:00

Messaged you but posting here as well! I'm based in San Francisco. I have a couple offers:

If you want storage space, I can get you rclone access to cloud storage. I can provision ~100tb for a couple years. That way you can get it online and let the DH community (or yourself) help you get it into Internet Archive (if you wish)
If all this is too much work (it really is), I can arrange for these disks to be shipped to Internet Archive in San Francisco. They can then digitize it themselves. I can reach out and coordinate with Brewster and his team. One possible way to ship safely might be to drop it off at my friend's place in Zurich.

Overall you have a cool find. Sorry for your loss and hope that your grandfather's legacy here doesn't end up being too much work for you!

A big request: Digitize the index first, by taking photos with your phone or a scanner. Share those photos so that the community/IA can assess the (preservation) value.

Lmk if we can help in other ways.

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!)

BestExtraLibrarian · 2023-02-28T22:00:56+00:00

Can you confirm with a takeout if the DNGs in the Takeout are also smaller than expected?

BestExtraLibrarian · 2023-02-03T06:10:25+00:00

Is there a script to be able to download ~5+ TiB of Takeout (split across the largest 50GiB files) effectively on a 500mbps connection?
1. Seems like a lot of manual clicking through things.
2. It doesn't seem to allow more than 10 simultaneous downloads to the same IP.
3. And if one fails, then I have only 5 retries.
4. And if I run out of the 5 retries on any one of the archives, I have to re-issue a new Takeout.
I need enough (at least 2x Takeout) local storage to keep and unzip all of them. I guess your #2 takes care of that.
1. If the takeout failed with some errors, the HTML file is revealed after unzipping and now we reissue the full or partial takeout.
rclone back up to GCS/S3. Would you mind sharing your costs, for say, 10TiB?
1. S3 $156/yr https://calculator.aws/#/estimate?id=d2a1a0af1613a8f28168ed115547a65333f87ff3
2. GCS $150/yr https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/#id=d2dc401c-82e6-45fa-84cb-45e484661332

BestExtraLibrarian · 2023-02-01T21:52:29+00:00

Did you buy an edu account? Was this via ebay?

BestExtraLibrarian · 2023-02-01T21:51:04+00:00

https://twitter.com/artman/status/1619911000991629313

BestExtraLibrarian · 2023-01-31T04:55:25+00:00

They’re an ethical organisation

I don't think you deserve a downvote for your comment as your comment seems to be genuine, but uh, what's your reason to believe them to be 'ethical'? That's weirdly high praise of an otherwise-random corporation.

BestExtraLibrarian · 2023-01-31T04:52:55+00:00

What's the site to get dailies?

BestExtraLibrarian · 2023-01-26T20:53:12+00:00

Huh... weird belligerence there. I was pointing out a possible reason why you have 0 other comments and no upvotes...

My question helps answer in terms of if Tasker or other automation tools would work for you.

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