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I've been long considering switching my Google Photos library fully over to ente [0], of course alongside my existing monthly backups to local HDDs and an annua

I've been long considering switching my Google Photos library fully over to ente [0], of course alongside my existing monthly backups to local HDDs and an annual backup to a cloud server via borgbackup. With every passing week, every Google fuck up like this and with ente's great pace of development, I draw myself nearer and nearer to the precipice of full switchover. I will soon be having my last Google Takeout. [0]: https://ente.io/ https://ente.io/

Scene_Cast2 4y ago
I remember trying ente, but the mobile app had a notoriously low amount of features and low FPS (felt like 30fps on my modern, 120Hz phone - stuck out like a sore thumb). Has there been any progress on that front?
- TingPing 4y ago
  I think flutter is pretty bad, some animations feel off, but core functionality like scrolling through hundreds of pictures functions just fine. I switched to the service completely.
  - Apocryphon 4y ago
    Does Google Photos or ente actually use Flutter? edit: RTFA, guess ente does - https://github.com/ente-io https://github.com/ente-io
- vishnumohandas 4y ago
  Hey! One of the founders of ente here. We have shipped a bunch of performance improvements and features[1] over the last few months. But we are far from where we want to be. If you happen to revisit and find something lacking, please write to vishnu[at]ente.io, we'd love to make ente work better for you. [1]: https://roadmap.ente.io/top-released/ https://roadmap.ente.io/top-released/
  - Hendrikto 4y ago
    Unrelated question: Is the name meaning ”duck“ in German intentional? I had a chuckle.
    - vishnumohandas 4y ago
      "duck" means "mine" in Malayalam (my native language), and I have a weird obsession with rubber ducks, so it just fit, and perhaps most importantly, the domain was available :)
DoingIsLearning 4y ago
Could you write a little bit about the workflow you described with borg?
- 12ian34 4y ago
  This great Hetzner page[0] explains it really well - its pretty much exactly what I'm doing. My Google Photos are extracted from the Google takeout.zip and those folders are backed up into a borg archive. [0]: https://community.hetzner.com/tutorials/install-and-configure-borgbackup https://community.hetzner.com/tutorials/install-and-configur...
eliaspro 4y ago
The download button that's front & center on the homepage leads to a Google Play Store 404.
- vishnumohandas 4y ago
  Hey, sorry, please check out our auto-updating APK[1] built straight from source, or our listing on F-Droid[2]. It looks like Google has unpublished our app, will figure out a fix. [1]: https://ente.io/download/apk https://ente.io/download/apk [2]: https://f-droid.org/packages/io.ente.photos.fdroid/ https://f-droid.org/packages/io.ente.photos.fdroid/

Scene_Cast2 4y ago

I remember trying ente, but the mobile app had a notoriously low amount of features and low FPS (felt like 30fps on my modern, 120Hz phone - stuck out like a sore thumb). Has there been any progress on that front?

TingPing 4y ago
I think flutter is pretty bad, some animations feel off, but core functionality like scrolling through hundreds of pictures functions just fine. I switched to the service completely.
- Apocryphon 4y ago
  Does Google Photos or ente actually use Flutter? edit: RTFA, guess ente does - https://github.com/ente-io https://github.com/ente-io
vishnumohandas 4y ago
Hey! One of the founders of ente here. We have shipped a bunch of performance improvements and features[1] over the last few months. But we are far from where we want to be. If you happen to revisit and find something lacking, please write to vishnu[at]ente.io, we'd love to make ente work better for you. [1]: https://roadmap.ente.io/top-released/ https://roadmap.ente.io/top-released/
- Hendrikto 4y ago
  Unrelated question: Is the name meaning ”duck“ in German intentional? I had a chuckle.
  - vishnumohandas 4y ago
    "duck" means "mine" in Malayalam (my native language), and I have a weird obsession with rubber ducks, so it just fit, and perhaps most importantly, the domain was available :)

DoingIsLearning 4y ago

Could you write a little bit about the workflow you described with borg?

12ian34 4y ago
This great Hetzner page[0] explains it really well - its pretty much exactly what I'm doing. My Google Photos are extracted from the Google takeout.zip and those folders are backed up into a borg archive. [0]: https://community.hetzner.com/tutorials/install-and-configure-borgbackup https://community.hetzner.com/tutorials/install-and-configur...

eliaspro 4y ago

The download button that's front & center on the homepage leads to a Google Play Store 404.

vishnumohandas 4y ago
Hey, sorry, please check out our auto-updating APK[1] built straight from source, or our listing on F-Droid[2]. It looks like Google has unpublished our app, will figure out a fix. [1]: https://ente.io/download/apk https://ente.io/download/apk [2]: https://f-droid.org/packages/io.ente.photos.fdroid/ https://f-droid.org/packages/io.ente.photos.fdroid/