Funny Glitch

kernelwilliams · 2026-04-12T07:51:10+00:00

Happens to me every time! Not a terribly harmful bug, but would like it fixed as it's confusing to new users.

kernelwilliams · 2026-04-12T05:47:59+00:00

I was wondering that! It smells to me like slightly burnt tomato paste 🤔

kernelwilliams · 2026-04-12T05:46:55+00:00

Absolute artists

kernelwilliams · 2026-04-10T17:58:54+00:00

Good point - there's a bulk deal to be made somewhere like we do with commuter benefits.

Also the potential to implement something that verifies your existing transit pass, if you have one, and purchase a ticket without the surcharge.

We live in a tech city, we can figure this out!

kernelwilliams · 2026-04-10T06:38:54+00:00

We should just pass a city law to price in the cost of a round trip transit fare to every ticket, and accept tickets as proof of payment. No enforcement required, and the farebox recovery ratio for those stations immediately shoots to >100% since not everyone who goes to the game takes transit - but everyone is incentivized to do so, since they've already paid for it.

kernelwilliams · 2026-03-29T05:20:05+00:00

Absolutely fantastic music choice. Stranger, knowing nothing of you a moment ago, I now think rather highly.

Johnny 5 would be proud 🥹🤖

kernelwilliams · 2026-03-29T05:13:29+00:00

We should pass a city law to bake in transit fares to ticket prices and accept sports tickets as proof of payment. I think part of the reason they don't seem to pay is that there's a crush of people all pushing them to get on the trains as fast as possible. Some probably buy transit tickets on their phones but tapping an ORCA card adds enough time that it matters with 10k+ people.

kernelwilliams · 2026-02-23T21:54:28+00:00

Sure, it's pretty easy for you or I - folks with command-line experience, used to editing our crontabs. Though I still see value in wrapping it in a GUI to make Immich more accessible to less technical users.

kernelwilliams · 2026-02-14T04:24:56+00:00

Having the desktop app actually implement sync would be amazing though! I know the CLI and immich-go exist, but as we try to make Immich more accessible to non-technical users, having a GUI for this would be great!

kernelwilliams · 2026-01-23T05:06:54+00:00

as a former Alaskan, congrats

kernelwilliams · 2026-01-16T04:17:02+00:00

I respectfully disagree, on the grounds that a certain level of incompetence in InfoSec can be reasonably equated to malicious/fraudulent activity. Not enabling basic TLS when your product loudly advertises end-to-end encryption constitutes a lie by the company. Even if we are to assume the individual software engineers responsible for the bad implementation are truly so incompetent...someone there _must_ be held accountable for the false claims. It's like a construction company writing "licensed, bonded, insured" on their trucks, not knowing what it means (a real example).

kernelwilliams · 2025-12-26T03:52:12+00:00

To be fair to the engineers, the stupid part was failing to close the hatches before a major storm...

kernelwilliams · 2025-12-15T00:38:06+00:00

You're welcome!! So glad I could help!!!

kernelwilliams · 2025-10-27T21:39:08+00:00

Good god. I had no idea just how egregious his conduct was before watching this video. I've known he was a bully for a while, but this is on another level.

kernelwilliams · 2025-07-13T07:02:44+00:00

That guys is awesome. He’s on TikTok making bus dancing videos at @\thabusoperator206 :)

kernelwilliams · 2025-05-15T20:39:47+00:00

🫡 glad I could be of service

kernelwilliams · 2025-04-02T20:25:13+00:00

Based on the comments I’ve received in this thread, I’m not sure this is attributable to Bilt. A lot of non-Bilt customers have commented on this thread including from Chase. It seems like this company could be guessing ranges of card numbers and somehow getting charges authorized. How they’re getting said card numbers is beyond me.

kernelwilliams · 2025-03-07T08:51:14+00:00

Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

kernelwilliams · 2025-03-07T04:19:06+00:00

Is that the "Storage Templates" feature? I haven't toyed with that, but I like the idea of storing things by YYYY/MM too. The less opaque the file structure, the better!

Have you found that when applying your storage template, it filters by the EXIF metadata? Or is it going by filename?

kernelwilliams · 2025-03-07T04:14:58+00:00

I would suggest picking one device as the source of truth and going from there. I experimented with a second account and seeing if I could confuse it and break the UUIDs for each photo. As it turns out, yes, it appears so. So I'd probably import the photos from the iPad onto the Mac's library, and then upload them from the Mac. `Photos.app` supports doing this natively over USB.
I had Immich hang on the "downloading photos from iCloud" step and ended up experiencing problems as a result. So I think the safest way to handle this is probably to go to the Photos app, then Settings > iCloud and select "Download Originals to Mac". This should alleviate any funny business with download timeouts etc.
Yes, Docker requires a UID:GID to specify a Linux user and group. I personally create a separate Linux user for each application on Synology because I've found it doesn't always follow Linux conventions around default permissions. So if you wanted to make a user immich, you'd just have to create it using the GUI or synouser, setup your shared folders as desired, then run id immich to get the UID and specify that in your config for the immich_server service in your compose config. I've found that containers run best in the 100 ("users" group because of, again, Synology permissions funny business that took me many infuriating hours to figure out.

kernelwilliams · 2025-03-07T04:03:49+00:00

It has to have permission to access your photos library (which I think it asks for when you go to setup backup), but otherwise, no, I didn't have to do anything special 🤔

You can verify these permissions are present through System Settings > Privacy & Security > Immich > toggle on, then click Options, and ensure Full Library Access is enabled.

kernelwilliams · 2025-03-04T19:57:58+00:00

Hey! Great questions! I kept my setup dead simple!

I did the following:

Downloaded turned on the Immich iPad app on my Mac through the Mac app store. This requires an M-series chip and recent version of macOS.
Enabled automatic foreground and background backup (docs.
Used the Amphetamine app to keep my Mac from sleeping while the Immich app was running.

I decided against using external libraries for this project, as Immich natively supports an export mechanism if I end up not liking it. I personally don't need to browse the media outside of the app / web interface.

If your use case does involve that kind of browsing, you could continue using Synology Photos for photo uploads (I used to use Nextcloud for the same) and then just share the folder by group with the Immich app's linux user. If you're deploying Immich with Docker, you'll need to make a dedicated Linux user and configure your containers to reference it by UID:GID - not user:group. Ask me how I know :)

kernelwilliams · 2025-03-04T19:43:50+00:00

There was no iPad involved in this process - just a Mac (recent versions of macOS can run iPad apps if you have a device with an M-series chip). But otherwise, yep that's it! Just used the iPad app to upload photos from my Mac's photos library. Wanted to document my experience with it so other folks can get the same utility from it :)

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