It’s the minimum effort that translates to minimum time that translates to minimum cost for the business. Why hire another developer for a mobile app (or another platform) when you could just have the same web dev write it. Or without hiring another dev, why have the same dev need to build up tooling in another language when you can just reuse from the existing platform

Mr Robot’s soundtrack is awesome, I remember the agonizing years waiting for the final volume to come out through all the red tape

Absolutely worth it

Aurora on my work machine, Bazzite on my home machine haha

There is this: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

Beets is one solution, and I also recommend taking a look at Musicbrainz Picard. It’s a more graphical and user friendly way (though more manual) to identify, organize, tag, and sort music into a preferred format. It’s what I use on all my Bandcamp purchases to clean up metadata and add things like lyrics before it automatically throws it into the right folder

In addition to autorenaming Picard can also auto organize into folders. So any time I buy new music, I run it through Picard to ensure metadata is correct, grab lyrics, and put it in the right folder that is then picked up by my self hosted navidrome

That’s fair. And in the case of Immich, the photos are automatically backed up to my computer so if I lose my phone I don’t lose the images, but I totally understand wanting something exclusively on the phone (Immich can let you browse photos local on your phone, but I don’t think it indexes them for searching by person/object). Unfortunately I’m not sure something like that exists, especially since the machine learning for identifying people/objects in pictures is pretty computationally intensive.

I wish you luck in your search! I agree that would be a great app to have

I’m sorry, I’m not entirely sure what you mean. All my photos are on my local hard drive on my computer at home, and I just point immich at that folder.

Once it boots up, immich doesn’t need internet to function, except for the first time you use image processing (the machine learning to search for things inside of images) and geocoding (putting the images on a map). Once it downloads those for the first time immich can run completely offline on your local computer. If you wish, you can open immich so you can connect to it from another device, such as a phone, but your images/data never leaves your device

That is completely fair, and part of that is on me since I spend so much time in self hosting communities where such a recommendation isn’t too out of the ordinary, while it’s way out of scope for what most people are looking for

Having a more user friendly and approachable way to do stuff like this would be very helpful

Immich lets you do this

https://immich.app/docs/features/searching/

For example here’s me searching for “forest”. But it also supports looking for people (even multiple people in the same image), places, dates, or combinations of all of them. It’ll also look for text in images. The link has more examples

All hosted and processed on my local computer, and connected to the mobile app

Thank you for the suggestion! I’ve been trying it out for a few days now and it is my new favorite app in terms of design. I’m having a strange problem where it keeps logging me out every couple days, but other than that I love it

I use Tiny Tiny RSS (https://tt-rss.org/) on desktop, and while they have an official mobile app, I’ve been enjoying Read You on Android

I also recently asked this question to a programming community and a self-hosting community, so if either of those interest you (or any related computing topics):

Programming: https://programming.dev/post/26356680

Self-hosting: https://programming.dev/post/26356684

That last part is a huge reason why I’m taking RSS more seriously. I don’t want my information to be limited to what happens to get picked up by the news cycle or worse chosen by the algorithm. I’d much rather get the information from the source. So that definitely meets the criteria :D

Uh oh I might be subscribing to all of these! Thank you very much!

And wow that low tech magazine site is beautiful

Heyy I’ve been looking around at different android apps and I think I’ve also settled on “Read You.” Thank you for the list, I haven’t heard of lots of them like MariusHosting and they look interesting

Which feeds do you watch for automation? I also like automating what I can lol

I use Duplicati for my backups, and have backup retention set up like this:

Save one backup each day for the past week, then save one each week for the past month, then save one each month for the past year.

That way I have granual backups for anything recent, and the further back in the past you go the less frequent the backups are to save space

I also really appreciate these, a bunch of cool projects I haven’t heard of before this week

https://www.newsweek.com/googles-ai-chatbot-tells-student-seeking-help-homework-please-die-1986471

Make sure to read the actual message, it’s a lot worse than the headline makes it sound lol (It’s also nice that you can look at the link of the full conversation to see how normal it was until the last message)

Recently I had two major problems with Windows updates that needed manual intervention in a very user unfriendly way.

Earlier this year one of the security updates for 22H2 broke my computer’s recovery partition and prevented the update to install and constantly fail. It took like a week for Microsoft to acknowledge the issue, at which point they said they would post a fix shortly. Then a whole month later they said they wouldn’t/couldn’t fix it automatically and anyone affected would have to manually delete the partition, shrink your main disk partition, and recreate the recovery partition. On top of that, there was no notification of the issue or how to fix it, one would have to notice the update keeps failing, look up the error, and dig up the instructions from their blog. And then go through the ugly process of editing partitions which I can’t imagine most users doing.

Either that or just live with no recovery until the next time you reinstall the os.

https://superuser.com/questions/1837245/kb5034441-and-changing-the-recovery-partition-starting-offset-in-order-to-be-abl

The second issue this year was halfway through a windows update (when it just reboots a couple times) my computer just simply stopped booting. I could power cycle and everything and after the bios it would just black screen forever. The only way I got around it was to hop into the bios and change the boot order. Another thing I wouldn’t expect normal users should have to do to just boot the computer

And I personally have seen all the ads in Windows explorer, the start menu, the lock screen, etc. and the massive pushing of Copilot being added to the toolbar even after removing it manually. And readding OneDrive. I’m in the US though so that’s probably why (it’s nice to know the only reason Microsoft does all this because they’re not legally pressured not to. Gives me so much trust in them to do the right thing with my computer and data)

I’ve since moved to Linux (which I’ve used on my work machine for many years) and have had near zero issues. It’s very nice not worrying how my computer is going to make itself worse without my consent next

edit: I definitely wouldn’t consider myself a fanatic that tries to convert everyone to Linux. For a lot of people Windows is the best choice, but in my case in particular it really has made things easier