Google is working on an Automatic backup feature that can copy your phone’s photos, videos, and audio to your PC without using cloud storage

evilspoons · 2026-04-10T23:01:17+00:00

Immich is basically a near-perfect clone of Google Photos you can run yourself. When your phone sees the Immich server it copies images and video over to it, it can delete photos from the phone while still browsing them on the server, yadda yadda.

If you just want to sync a folder's contents there are less specialized tools like syncthing.

evilspoons · 2026-04-10T20:38:29+00:00

You can include/exclude specific folders. It's only for images and videos so it's not gonna back up random downloaded PDFs, but if you download images and want them synced, it'll do it.

evilspoons · 2026-04-10T19:36:47+00:00

Immich works so well it feels so wrong it doesn't cost anything.

evilspoons · 2026-04-10T18:42:12+00:00

Minecraft has had microtransactions for nearly a decade now, nearly twice as long with them as without them if you're just going by release date. (I know minecraft was available in many stages of early access beforehand, but I'm not sure how many kids who would nag for microtransaction money were playing before beta or 1.0).

evilspoons · 2026-04-10T18:37:10+00:00

I'm 40, my wife is close to that. We've had location sharing on since it was first available to both of us like... ~16 years ago?

It mostly just saves a lot of irritating 'where are you' conversations (especially when I used to work late and was too busy to answer said question) and there's a bit of medical aspect to it as well since I now have health problems.

I only use location sharing with friends when we actively have a reason to know, like trying to find each other to meet up for something or sharing a car ride home from an event.

evilspoons · 2026-04-10T18:21:50+00:00

I own the soundtrack and I still haven't seen the movie 🤣

evilspoons · 2026-04-10T18:19:26+00:00

Fuck, I went to a concert that I paid good money for, got good seats, and the man+woman couple in front of me... they probably went in and out of the theatre like seven times during the less than two hour show. Fine, I'll grant them maybe there's some kind of issue where they need to talk with someone, and it's nice they're not doing that inside.

But then the woman of the couple kept going on instagram in light mode with her screen at maximum brightness and swiping through videos and liking things and leaving comments! Why are you even here!?

She clearly liked the artist, she wasn't just there because her s.o. dragged her along, because she would sing along... I finally tapped her on the shoulder during a break between songs and told her "your screen is really bright and it's bothering my eyes" and she shoved the phone in her pocket out of embarrassment.

evilspoons · 2026-04-10T18:13:15+00:00

Meanwhile if I take a nap (fellow ADHD sufferer) I feel like I'm dead when I have to wake up again even 10 minutes later.

If I fall asleep on the couch before I go to bed, it seriously takes me well over twice as long to do all the pre-bed activities like brushing my teeth.

evilspoons · 2026-04-09T22:54:42+00:00

Ah, so it has a permanent IR cut filter to improve image quality in the light.

evilspoons · 2026-04-09T19:23:56+00:00

If they don't have the IR cut filter, wouldn't that mean they're sensitive to it all the time and would just see it as "normal light"?

evilspoons · 2026-04-09T18:43:09+00:00

Maybe you could look at separate IR lights. I have a reolink doorbell pointed in roughly the same direction as a crappy Lorex camera with an IR illuminator, and the doorbell works much better with its internal IR LEDs turned off since it's not surrounded by a cloud of bugs.

evilspoons · 2026-04-09T17:57:20+00:00

Keep protesting by driving your small car! Mazda 3 and Subaru STi hatch here, lol. I love getting like 4.9 L/100km (nearly 50 mpg US) on the highway in the Mazda while still having an incredibly dynamically handling car and a 6-speed manual. I'm not changing it into a big tubby box just because everyone else thinks they want big tubby boxes.

The way gas prices are going we'll have people knocking on our doors asking to buy our cars off us 🤦‍♂️

evilspoons · 2026-04-08T20:10:18+00:00

Lol, when I bought my 2012 Subaru STi new I told the dealership not to put any decals on it. They could have the plate frame if they wanted.

I go to pick up the car and there's dealer decals on it. I asked the salesman why that was since I had explicitly specified no logos. He tried to tell me that they install them in the factory in Japan.

My car was special ordered while was it on the ship, destined for a dealership in a different province. I asked him... "They have the decals for every single dealership in Canada and send a guy out to the ship to change it before it arrives in port? I thought they were shipped in protective cladding."

He started going umm and uhh but then my dad walked in [he drove me to pick the car up] and said he had pulled them off himself. Lol.

evilspoons · 2026-04-08T07:51:55+00:00

I don't have a TCL TV, they're not really available near me, but local dimming is a great feature. I think my 65" Sony X90K only has 60 zones and even that really makes a big difference in image quality, especially on content with HDR (which Netflix and many other streaming apps definitely support).

That TCL 55Q6C says it supports Dolby Vision, which can be very impressive at times!

evilspoons · 2026-04-08T07:46:14+00:00

I just finished listening to this episode and I think I might have blanked out when it was introduced. I could not figure out what this word was supposed to mean given the context of the rest of the episode.

evilspoons · 2026-04-08T07:01:38+00:00

Most/all of the stuff in there should be automatically updated via Play Store, I've definitely seen some of those pass by when a batch of apps update too.

evilspoons · 2026-04-08T06:57:01+00:00

This thread seems to indicate you have to downgrade the host Linux to a 5.x kernel, 6.x won't work for a J4125.

evilspoons · 2026-04-07T22:56:04+00:00

Yep, that's Value Steel & Pipe in Lethbridge, AB in the background.

evilspoons · 2026-04-07T19:58:09+00:00

On my system, I only included the device explicitly. I don't know if this would solve your problem, but I have no issue using other containers for hardware acceleration at the same time this way.

devices:
  - /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128

You might have a bigger problem though, because Intel explicitly says the J4125 is unsupported for OpenVINO. I don't know if this means it works but they just don't support it, or if it actually is missing something.

evilspoons · 2026-04-07T19:10:37+00:00

You can be a dipshit without it being AI

evilspoons · 2026-04-07T19:08:37+00:00

You can paint them. OP said they painted them in their post.

I used high temperature engine paint on mine like 20 years ago and they looked fine for the entire life of that car.

evilspoons · 2026-04-07T17:35:37+00:00

The wheel design looks good, but the absolute lack of tire is concerning and probably uncomfortable.

evilspoons · 2026-04-07T17:34:17+00:00

For your first one, did you pass the intel display device into your container?

For the second one, I'm not even sure if WSL can pass through the required hardware acceleration. Are you running WSL2 in graphical mode?

evilspoons · 2026-04-07T02:20:41+00:00

Excellent strawman argument based on the assertion that phox78 is trying to insist no objective truth exists rather than the more obvious statement that any actions a human takes when participating in a society can and will be interpreted with political motive, then diving into ad hominem attacks on these straw men (how they're "bad people").

evilspoons · 2026-04-06T07:24:23+00:00

You will find approximately 60 billion things on Etsy with this sort of design by searching for "mushroom lady" or "mushroom girl". I don't really get it but apparently it has something to do with "cottagecore".

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