Google takeout (or maybe Photos itself) actually trashes your metadata. BUT you can restore it (for money)!

https://metadatafixer.com/

When you get your Takeout zip files, you just drop them in here, don’t even unpack them.

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It’s actually safer if everyone knows. Spreading the knowledge of Roko’s basilisk to everyone means that everyone is incentivized to contribute to the basilisk’s advancement. Therefore just talking about it is also contributing.

I’d really love it if people stop saying “it’s by design” when they can’t point to any motivation for that design. When the quoted admin says “thinking this is by design” this is equivalent to saying “Lemmy developers prefer that there be no image moderation tools.”

Like, what. Why would they want that. They clearly don’t want that. They’re working on changing that.

Yeah the scenario we’re being asked to consider is what if someone else gets control of the company, so whatever power employees nominally have now, they won’t if he dies without deeding the company to a collective.

Fit billionaires do. What happens to gaben’s heart and arteries are anyone’s guess. He is getting healthier but you can’t undo damage completely.

Fair enough. I guess I’m not saying “there’s no point in --” because I know people do these things. (Man, I wish I had the attention span to read as much as you.) I’m just saying I’m not going to host something just to keep track with no recommendations or interaction because that doesn’t click for me personally.

Same. I don’t really see the point of tracking what you read if you’re not interested in connecting it to other peoples’ readings. Storygraph has been great.

TBH I’m curious what the difference between this and “hallucinating” would be.

Lemmy is starting to have a huge problem with people creating multiple sockpuppets–probably programmatically generating them, in fact–just to win internet arguments. If this goes on too long you’re going to see a really surprising number of sudden downvotes on everything you’ve said in this conversation, and anyone who agreed with you.

Mine was inherited from the previous owners. At my insistence they factory reset any devices they left around the house. When I moved in, I turned on the nest and discovered that it worked fine with no configuration whatsoever. It’s just controlling the current on two wires, with a fancy display. I’ve never had a reason to change it from that.

A Nest doesn’t have to be connected to a network, at all. They’re wired to your climate system the same way as a dumb thermostat. If you don’t need remote control of your temperature–and I’m gonna be real here, does anyone need remote control of the climate system?–disconnect it from the network.

It’s a dial that turns your temperature up and down. I haven’t adjusted mine since, like, August.

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Terraform and OpenTofu are great tools for building virtual infrastructure, e.g. using AWS API calls to spin up AWS virtual machines and provision them with networks and security relationships and stuff like that–in an automated, repeatable way. They are generalized tools for deploying and modifying infrastructure, even if it’s not in the cloud (there are many tools in these frameworks that apply to self-hosted setups).

The rest of the words after “Terraform fork” are just the names of companies that decided to help OpenTofu, and are not especially helpful in understanding what it is or what it’s used for.

In almost 30 years I’ve never seen anyone actually switch databases underneath an existing product. I have worked at one place where generic database APIs were required because it was a product that supportedf multiple databases, but no individual customer was really expected to switch from one database to another, that’s just how the product was written.

I have heard of this happening, but it’s the kind of thing that happens in one of two scenarios:

1. Very early in a product’s lifetime the developer (probably a startup) realizes the database they chose was a poor choice. Since the product doesn’t even exist yet, the switching cost is low, and generic database use wouldn’t have helped.

2. A management shakeup in a very mature product causes the team to switch databases. This is, as you observed, usually part of a major rewrite of some kind, so lots of things are going to change at once. Also–critically–this only happens with companies that have more money than sense. Management doesn’t mind if it takes a long time to switch.

   It won’t go smoothly, at all, but nobody actually cares, so generic database use wouldn’t have helped.

Wild, so it would suggest that the actor wasn’t Chinese at all. An authentic Chinese person probably wouldn’t choose a name that sounded like that, any more than I would name myself Sean MacBerkowitz, it would just sound wrong.

A random name generator might produce something like this, of course, if it wasn’t programmed to be too picky.

I suspect it comes from Trump “winning” at his own golf course, and Biden mocking him for it, leading to fake outrage that the noble institution of golf is being disparaged. Conservatives are fucking stupid, just move on.

I just hide everything I don’t want to play again. “Favorites” means “games I am playing right now”. I have one real category of my own, which is “Finished”, and actually means “maybe I beat this, or maybe I just got close enough and watched the ending on Youtube.” Very few games are actually visible in “Finished” because mostly I don’t replay games, so if I beat something, it goes into “Finished” and then gets hidden.

Doesn’t this number mostly just go up? I understand there will be waves as new games become popular and then wane, but surely they’re just going to keep breaking this “record” forever until the market for video games is fully saturated.

So in the, let’s say, top one-third tier of the options, something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Beelink-SER5-Mini-PC-Desktop-Computer/dp/B0C286SR8V/ref=pd_ci_mcx_pspc_dp_d_2_i_1?pd_rd_i=B0C286SR8V

Or, similarly, this, which is my current mediaserver: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C1X191NR/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1

I went with the second one–more ram. Anecdotally, some people think beelink is more reliable but this is not a universal opinion, and my experience has been that the minisforum is extremely reliable.

If you search similar you can find options both up and down depending on your actual budget. You probably don’t want to do components on these things, apart from maybe putting in a bigger m.2 nvme.