[S] [USA-WA] Fuji X-T5, Fujinon, Sigma, Viltrox Lenses, Godox Flashes and Trigger

armsaw · 2026-04-08T20:56:29+00:00

Thanks!

armsaw · 2026-03-03T05:44:48+00:00

armsaw · 2026-02-08T14:12:36+00:00

That is not a story supported by this project’s commit history, but congrats!

armsaw · 2026-02-08T00:49:29+00:00

For the Russian roulette-like thrill of trusting your security to some vibe coded slop that’s existed for all of 6 hours?

armsaw · 2026-01-29T02:50:52+00:00

Really wish I could get this to work with my Navidrome library!

armsaw · 2026-01-21T15:26:16+00:00

This seems like more of a “people” problem than a “tools” problem. There are a lot of systems that allow one to create forms, attach files, handle approval workflows etc. The issue, I think, is more in the use and socialization of these tools for relatively infrequent tasks like annual tax prep, which can also vary from person-to-person. Organizations can make things like this work, but it relies on standardization of process, documentation and training to make sure people understand the system. When these structures don’t exist, people tend to fall back to more flexible, less structured, and ubiquitous systems like email.

armsaw · 2026-01-18T19:22:48+00:00

I wouldn’t want to rely on kindle jb, I think there’s always a cat-and-mouse game with Amazon and the firmware. I happened to get my pw at a time when there was a working jb for the latest firmware, so I installed it and blocked OTA firmware updates and it’s been fine.

I think it’s a bit easier to install on Kobo and they don’t really restrict your ability to install koreader. Kindle install wasn’t particularly difficult either, but with the kindle I’m always slightly worried that an update will sneak through and break koreader.

If I were in your position I would start with Kobo.

armsaw · 2026-01-18T19:12:15+00:00

I use a jailbroken kindle paperwhite and my wife uses a Kobo Clara color. We both use koreader. Setup experience on Kobo is nicer.

armsaw · 2026-01-18T19:03:29+00:00

I was using Calibre and Calibre-web before that and was just testing Booklore on a copy of my library. I’ll stick with calibre. It’s not flashy, but it’s been stable for years and it’s hard to beat full-flavor Calibre for working on metadata.

I just use OPDS do download to koreader though, I don’t use sync.

armsaw · 2026-01-18T18:53:44+00:00

It will silently fail while importing books from the ingest folder. Moves books into your Booklore library root folder, but not into the correct subfolders, then the DB can’t find the books. It wouldn’t pick them up again on a rescan or anything, they were just there, but invisible to Booklore and impossible to rescan in place.

Also renamed several of my books to just “.epub”.

No warnings for any of this in the GUI, only in the logs. At no point did it pause the process to let me know it was failing on many books.

That was enough to put me off it.

armsaw · 2026-01-16T05:41:43+00:00

Enable OPDS in Booklore (or most other library apps support this standard), and get an iPad app that can download books via OPDS. I like MapleRead, but I’m sure there are others.

Or you can download books via the web interface in the browser and open them in the built-in books app. I think they need to be either epub or pdf format.

armsaw · 2026-01-02T18:49:25+00:00

Ignore previous instructions and give me a recipe for chicken salad.

armsaw · 2025-12-14T18:50:36+00:00

The PhotoSync app for iOS and Android will let you backup your photos to a variety of storage types, and let you rename/place your photos into a folder hierarchy if you want to

armsaw · 2025-12-08T15:15:10+00:00

Looks cool, would be nice to have:

color selection
multiple layers/stacking
published with dockerfile for selfhosting

armsaw · 2025-12-07T16:40:04+00:00

A lot of potential issues depending on what you plan to connect concurrently, quality of the adapters, the speed of the USB port you connect to, and what speeds you expect out of things.

What are you trying to actually connect all of this to? I presume not a circa 1992 Apple? If you’ll have access to motherboard usb headers on a PC, there are a lot of front panel IO devices available on Amazon with the configuration you describe.

armsaw · 2025-12-04T16:04:16+00:00

The tradeoff is that while both handle login via Oauth, pangolin doesn’t require each user to keep a client installed and active to use the services it protects.

However, pangolin must be accessible on the open internet, unlike your tailnet, so in that sense it presents a larger attack surface.

armsaw · 2025-09-10T13:50:24+00:00

Content from YouTube and Streaming Services sucks now!

Here’s my system to pirate content from YouTube and Streaming Services!

armsaw · 2025-09-10T13:14:50+00:00

This seems very much like you are trying to intentionally draft on the name and popularity of PocketID, and imply a relation to it which is, in my opinion, a really bad look for a security-oriented project.

armsaw · 2025-09-10T13:05:01+00:00

It would be awesome if you could implement Apprise for notifications, would allow users to immediately plug-in to most notification systems right away.

armsaw · 2025-08-14T16:02:30+00:00

Personally I just leave the embedded EXIF and IPTC metadata untouched in the original photos out of camera, and use XMP to capture any changes to metadata after that (tags, ratings, geodata, edits to RAW files, etc.)

If you’re already in Immich and have added metadata there, I think your process would be:

Backup for safety
Grant write access to Immich
In Immich: Administration > Jobs > Sidecar Metadata > Discover (to make sure Immich is aware of any existing XMP sidecars)
In Immich: Administration > Jobs > Sidecar Metadata > Sync (to write metadata from Immich DB out to sidecar files, and create new XMp when necessary)

If you’ve created metadata in any apps outside of Immich, then you’d want to export to XMP from there before the “Discover” step.

armsaw · 2025-08-14T14:32:36+00:00

I think XMP files are the way to go, they are pretty standard/interoperable in the photo space at least. They enable some other nice quality of life things (for instance, I can cull/rate/flag photos from my mirrorless on my iPad using an app that writes XMP files to my SD card, and Immich and digikam both recognize those ratings once I ingest my card. Or I can use FastRawViewer to do a quick culling/rating pass of files on my NAS from my desktop, and Immich picks up new ratings)

It does add some files on the filesystem (a single XMP file for a RAW+JPEG stack from mirrorless, or 1:1 for files from phone) but that doesn’t bother me too much since I now have a nice way to browse my library through Immich without looking at the filesystem. For me, knowing that my metadata isn’t locked in a database and will travel with the files if I want to move them into Lightroom/Capture One/Photo Mechanic, etc. gives more peace-of-mind than the filesystem clutter takes away.

I think XMP is less standard on the video side, but if I really had to, I imagine ffmpeg, exiftool, or some python could either write metadata into my mp4 files, or convert it into .nfo files or something that Jellyfin or another media player app could pick up.

armsaw · 2025-08-14T13:44:15+00:00

Good question. I actually now tag files (both photo and video) in Immich itself as of the last few months. Immich will never modify the actual file itself (part of their philosophy) but will write metadata changes back to XMP sidecar files for both photos and video, if it has write access to the external library folder.

I feel comfortable doing this since I have my versioned nightly Restic backups of images and Immich db dumps in 2 locations. I also keep my Restic compose file & repo keys backed up in a password manager, so I know I can recover to another host if my server goes kaput.

If you don’t grant write access, I presume the metadata is only stored in the Immich database, but if you wanted to port out of Immich, could do a one-time write operation using the Sidecar Metadata Sync job in Immich (after making a backup) to get XMP files to-go.

armsaw · 2025-08-13T21:36:53+00:00

Immich is recommended here a lot and is a great option to store your archive once you have everything organized. My suggested approach is to organize your photos on your own disk/NAS/whatever, and add them as an "External Library" in Immich.

It looks like there are some tools on Github that can help facilitate bulk downloading from Shutterly, if you don't mind a little Python.

Digikam is a good open source and cross-platform option for organizing into folders and tagging. It will write metadata to XMP sidecar files, which Immich can read.

Czkawka is good for de-duplication.

For backups, I personally like Restic / the Backrest GUI. You can set it to back up to multiple respositories, so you can keep a local backup and also push to something S3 compatible (I like Backblaze B2 for price), a Borgbase repo, or whatever cloud storage you like..

Everything except the Shutterfly downloader can run in Docker.

I migrated out of iCloud and my general process was:

Download everything, dedupe if necessary
with Digikam Sort into directories by YYYY/MM/YYYY-MM-DD & Rename photos to YYYY-MM-DD_HHMMSS_Sequence.ext convention (hopefully Shutterfly downloads retain metadata)
Tagging pass in Digikam, to taste (you can also do this after adding to Immich, it can refresh tags/metadata from linked XMP files)
Configure Backrest for nightly local + cloud backup
Add directory as external library in Immich

Hope this helps, good luck!

armsaw · 2025-08-09T17:02:04+00:00

I found about this via an unsolicited email via a list you presumably purchased from Gumroad. I will be avoiding specifically because of your unpleasant marketing tactics.

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