But just telling it "remove the shadow from this image" would be great.
Honestly surprised to see such a quick turn around on what was a Pixel 10 exclusive feature. I guess they did that for Circle to Search too.
https://github.com/simulot/immich-go is what I used to import ~300gb of photos from Google Photos to Immich. Not sure how well it works for iCloud.
There is also https://ente.io/ which is a private & secure photo backup app that you don't need to self-host.
iCloud Photos stores originals (assuming you're using "Download Originals to this Mac") in the "originals" folder of your .photoslibrary package.
If you don't sync your originals, use iCloud Photos Downloader (https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...) to get them.
I ended up going with Ente and have been pretty happy with it.
I might also just switch over to Ente so I don't have to deal with the self-hosting. Price for Ente is about equivalent for what I'm paying Hetzner right now.
I also use Immich, but on a local server (using tailscale to reach it from outside)
I’ve previously experimented a bit with encrypted volumes that I manually decrypt over ssh, and even full disk encryption that I manually decrypt over ssh.
My experience with Hetzner has been good. It is really rare that the servers go down on their own. Reboots are usually my own doing, so I am already “around” to decrypt encrypted volumes.
I have experienced critical, unrecoverable hardware failure on Hetzner servers a couple of times over the years. But I’ve had offsite backups in place since day one, so I never ultimately lost any important data. Had to deprovision the broken server, reprovision a new one and restore from my offsite backup. Which is a bit of a hassle, but no biggie because the only one that relies on my servers is mostly myself. A few days of downtime because I am too busy to set up a new server right away is therefore also ok for me, with how infrequently it has happened.
A single Hetzner server should never be the only place hosting a copy of all your photos or other data you cannot afford to lose. But that applies to any host really. Not unique to Hetzner.
I don't use arch but this looks cleaner than whatever Debian or fedora (both of which I use) have going on
Google Photos used to be one of my most favorite apps. Now it's some testing playground. I'm sure some new startup is approaching this area so the cycle can repeat.
"They" could be just about any major software vendor as of late, it's hardly specific to Google.
I feel that everywhere, not just Google. Windows is probably one of the most egregious with copilot being jammed into every app.
None of this "AI" stuff feels integrated or even thought out at all. The whole thing is just bolted on and it feels like the only reason is so they can say "see, we have AI too! Now give us money" to investors.
Turn left, no other left, no the left after that left. No, damn it stop the car.
/s
Part of the reason I switched to an iPhone was for all the on device stuff that Google insists you use the cloud for.
What I did find was many, many different buttons and icons that start some kind of AI magic enhancement crap.
It is interesting, though, that Google's products have suffered so much regression as AI has advanced. In the past I could search my images with "Subaru" and reliably get photos. Now it's clearly a subset.
Same with Google's voice assistant which was actually more capable 5 or 6 years ago.
I get it. It's probably easier to maintain with a general purpose LLM or diffusion model behind the scenes or whatever. It's just a pity that the PMs and engineers who made the good stuff have either lost their positions or have changed their minds.
I uploaded a selfie with a kinda-sorta '80s haircut and it completely changed my gender.
netsharc•2h ago
- Pan right and pull back. Stop.
- Enhance 34 to 46.
- Pull back. Wait a minute. Go right. Stop.
- Enhance 57-19.
- Track 45 left. Stop.
- Enhance 15 to 23.
- Give me a hard copy right there.
svachalek•1h ago
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