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Amen. I'm still using Picasa: periodically I go prowling for an equivalent app but there's still nothing to touch it. Fuck their photo cloud: I have ADSL so upl
by thombat 3y ago
Amen. I'm still using Picasa: periodically I go prowling for an equivalent app but there's still nothing to touch it. Fuck their photo cloud: I have ADSL so uploads are sluggards. I need local storage, fast searching, good facial recognition, a lightweight UI, and that's Picasa.
Of course the web-connected parts like positioning on a map or sharing online broke long ago, but they appear to have neglected to build in a kill switch so mere user me can keep on getting shit done, invulnerable to their idiocy-of-the-day
- sanitycheck 3y agoMy dad used to be a very heavy Picasa user, I eventually transitioned him to "DigiKam" which seems to be working out - so maybe worth checking that if you haven't. (If it's simple enough for a man who's steadfastly refused to learn anything new for 40 years it might be easy to switch.) I've got a precious Lightroom 6 license so I've been sticking with that.
- thombat 3y agoThanks - it's probably time to try DigiKam again since I can see quite recent discussions of improved face recognition (and I like that it's open source; pity Google didn't open Picasa but that's quite in keeping with the overall topic here of them stumblebumming user care)