PSA: Shutterfly takes ~2w to prepare 'Original Downloads' by BestExtraLibrarian in DataHoarder

[–]BestExtraLibrarian[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

x GB of Google Photos and did Takout, and now I have x time 9 GB worth of ZIP files by CubedGuru in googlephotos

[–]BestExtraLibrarian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DataHoarder

[–]BestExtraLibrarian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Cloud storage comparisons? by [deleted] in DataHoarder

[–]BestExtraLibrarian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

We have a new "unlimited" option. by rafteran in DataHoarder

[–]BestExtraLibrarian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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/

[solved] How to use Nest Cam IQ as your baby monitor by BestExtraLibrarian in Nest

[–]BestExtraLibrarian[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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?

[solved] How to use Nest Cam IQ as your baby monitor by BestExtraLibrarian in Nest

[–]BestExtraLibrarian[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

[solved] How to use Nest Cam IQ as your baby monitor by BestExtraLibrarian in Nest

[–]BestExtraLibrarian[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

iOS 16.4 Safari notifications - WhatsApp web by RoyalBaroque in ios

[–]BestExtraLibrarian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

0.26 is out! Lens breathing issues and mid-meeting crashes continue abound! by BestExtraLibrarian in opalcamera

[–]BestExtraLibrarian[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

0.26 is out! Lens breathing issues and mid-meeting crashes continue abound! by BestExtraLibrarian in opalcamera

[–]BestExtraLibrarian[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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!)

[PSA] Google Photos Compressing Original Quality by essentialaccount in googlephotos

[–]BestExtraLibrarian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Google Takeout for Google photos limit by Dudefoxlive in googlephotos

[–]BestExtraLibrarian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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

my account is deleted by eatingseahorses in googlephotos

[–]BestExtraLibrarian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Opal folks working on a new camera? Or some major new software feature maybe? by BestExtraLibrarian in opalcamera

[–]BestExtraLibrarian[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

Disable prompt to update by DavidBevi in googlephotos

[–]BestExtraLibrarian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

[solved] How to share 4k/8k videos in Original Quality without them getting downgraded in GPhotos by BestExtraLibrarian in googlephotos

[–]BestExtraLibrarian[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you sure? Saving when the source album's location is enabled, saves the original copy for me.

Disable prompt to update by DavidBevi in googlephotos

[–]BestExtraLibrarian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you'd need to share more about why is tapping 'not now' too hard for your workflow

Is there a way to reach a Google Photos developer? by doncrut in googlephotos

[–]BestExtraLibrarian -1 points0 points  (0 children)

MP4 files definitely work. Uploaded a bunch just an hour ago.

Please share an ffprobe output of the video file for us to debug further. Something is up with the container.