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by mceachen 6y ago
The next release (alpha build will drop in a week or two) will include keyword, album, and person tag imports from Google Takeouts, Lightroom, Picasa, and digiKam. See: https://photostructure.com/about/2020-release-note
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FWIW I've found WASM to be 2-4x slower than native-compiled binaries (especially with large memory copy ops, like with image codecs). (don't get me wrong: this is a wonderful technical feat, but it still is a substantial tradeoff
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PhotoStructure will run comfortably with 1gb RAM, and scales to very large (>1mm file) libraries. The ML models I'm loading for the next version may take a bit more RAM than that, but (as most features with PhotoStructure), you&#x27
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Please don't trust memory cards for long term storage: just like SSD drives, if they sit on a shelf and aren't energized, they can lose data in as little as a year.
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Several of my beta users have recommended PhotoSync. I've used Resilio Sync on my iOS test device successfully as well. Most NAS providers (like Synology and QNAP) also have native sync apps. It's good to have options so if one g
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> Is it possible to lose all my photos stored in the cloud? Yes. Cloud services have lost customer data before, but it's more likely that you'll lose access to your account with the cloud service. Many people have lost access t
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Unfortunately, node modules with native components must be compiled to a specific version of Electron. This non-portability throws a monkey wrench into any "single runtime" approach (you'd need an electron runtime installed f
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There's a discussion about these apps on my forum that might be helpful: https://forum.photostructure.com/t/automatic-phone-uploads/2... I've been using Resilio Sync on my Android device and my NAS. I bo
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That article addresses how to do a "scrubbable" infinite scroll for their timeline view. Rendering correctly-scaled images is a different issue: Google Photos renders the image to the precise viewport dimensions (which is why it t
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s/20 years ago/36 years ago/ s/Windows 2000/the first Macintoshes/ ftfy
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> should instead just ship a local HTTP server and a Node.JS runtime, and native libraries to support menubars, system trays, dialogs that support folder selections, native drag and drop for all file types, ... I agree, though: if the el
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Interesting project! The fact that I have to fetch the stork.js from your CDN, and a random wasm blob gets pulled in as well, is unfortunately a deal killer for adoption, at least for me. A pointer to how to self-host might help address thi
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There are a ton of open source: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#pho... If you're ok with non-free: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted/blo.
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I had to stop playing Dirt because I kept unconsciously reaching for the e-brake on tight turns to set up a nice Scandinavian flick. When I was driving IRL.
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I discovered ratarmount the other day (pip3 install ratarmount), which fuse-mounts tgz. Fancier, you can glob all your Takeouts into a single merged directory (ratarmount *.tgz ~/takeout). Even fancier, PhotoStructure will then read an
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by mceachen 6y ago
Don't use snap.
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https://PhotoStructure.com is just me, and I'm delighted daily by great user feedback. > Defining successful as a profitable business Ooooh. _That_ kind of successful. Nope, not profitable yet.
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> There is also photostructure.com, but they don't seem to be planning to make mobile clients any time soon :| Sorry about that. I certainly get the appeal of "one app to rule then all," but as an indy solo dev, I have to
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by mceachen 6y ago
HDR needs a bunch of things to work correctly: 1) the software needs to render with the correct gamut profile (typically "P3.display") 2) the OS needs to have a reasonable color profile for the display that knows about the higher
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Neat! If you have any questions or you find anything odd, confusing, or buggy, please let me know. Email is in the website footer.
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Photographers will talk about their "workflow," where they spend time after a shoot to flag and cull. That's fine for professionals, but for you and me, it's a chore I'd rather skip. Most photo managers use timeline
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First get a Google Takeout of everything as a backup. You can transfer your email to a standard Gmail account via imap (I used to use maildirsync but https://imapsync.lamiral.info/ seems like it may work). For Drive, just s
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by mceachen 6y ago
It's a young product, and still in beta (free during the betas in exchange for your feedback): https://photostructure.com/faq/why-photostructure/ (I'm the author)
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Odroid has a 4gb with sata ports: https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc4/ The new pi compute module has an 8gb model with a pci-express slot that can take nvme: https://www.raspberrypi.org/prod
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FWIW, no login with Firefox, ublock origin, and a pihole.
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If your photos are scattered over several drives and you need something to sweep then into one neat pile, try PhotoStructure (I'm the author). The current beta release is available for free in exchange for your feedback. It's got
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And, if possible, record his answers, either just audio, or also video, whatever is easier/more comfortable. I have tons of photos that include my late parents, but videos and audio recordings of them are precious.
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> Should I just rsync/Syncthing my photos off my phone to NAS Yes. If SyncThing gives you attitude, try PhotoSync and Resilio Sync. But whatever you do, keep your originals. Know that GitHub is littered with abandoned gallery projec
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I originally started down this path, trying to automate "culling," but found that (at least with the transfer models that I played with) ML-based "quality" scores weren't that great. I read a paper about stochastic
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Although there is an official API, your photos and videos pulled via the API will have most of their metadata stripped, including GPS location tags. The best way is via Google Takeout. If you have a large library, your archive may fail to b

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