AMD and Nvidia are basically on par for now, especially so for RTX 4090 vs 7900XTX.

These are day-1 results and must be expected to change significantly through the next six months of driver and game updates.

Upscaling was not tested.

I think the load screens is what will kill it for me. I’d like to be immersed in a new universe. Not just select places from a menu and then load that place in.

Is that whole video rant made just in the misinformed belief that version 12 of FSD is released?

I read

Fabian Nelson, a 38-year-old Redditor from Byram

…and got really worried for a second!

I’m sure it’s better now than last I tried it years ago, but I like a solution that works also when I’m away traveling. And I get a lot of power and control over metadata as well.

I don’t do anything on import, I let Apple Photos handle it. I have not actually checked that it gets converted, but I cannot imagine anything else that can explain the reduction on size.

Performance, basically. There are a lot of fancy functionality and image processing, memories, search, content recognition, edits, different timeline views, smart albums, people albums etc… You have to take a lot of care to make all of this work smoothly with 1 million pictures!

Amazingly, so far it seems just about as snappy and smooth as always.

OSXPhotos

You can use it from the command line, but I use the Python interface with a custom script to handle some of my custom stuff like making sure the NAS volume is mounted, tweak some naming, more robust duplication handling etc.

I used to run iCloudPD through docker on my NAS, which works great and can sync down everything directly from iCloud. However, if you turn on Advanced Data Protection like I did, software like icloudpd can no longer access your photos.

I’ve instead added an external SSD to a Mac Mini server and set it to download all originals, then I run the script on a schedule every night to export anything new to my NAS. Then the backup of my NAS to an encrypted cloud location will kick in a few hours later.

To be honest, I can’t remember the last time I used the lightning plug to transfer any data, so it’s not a current feature I will miss. But it’s a huge, missed opportunity for sure.

1. I have backups.
2. I have multiple libraries. This is the main one. I don’t need to split it up as long as it’s already manageable :)

Says the squid! I do not trust your intentions. The location of the penguins will not be revealed.

I’ve never heard of data loss. From the local machine or the cloud, or both?

Nevertheless, I make a nightly export to my own file structure which is stored on a NAS and also backed up to a third party cloud, so I’m not very concerned.

Just be aware that you will still leak IPv6 after setting this up.

Check out The Greg Mandel trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton. A lot of sci-fi, not focused on space travel.

I also love his large Commonwealth universe with several trilogies and novels in it that can be read independently, but these are definitely space based. I would start with the Void Trilogy. It is defined as a space opera. There are just so many cool sci-fi concepts though :)

Well, but I specifically don’t want to quickly resync anything while I’m in the US. I’ll have what I need of documents on a Proton Drive or similar.

I’ll turn back on iCloud sync later.

I literally have nothing to hide, but conveniently have just reset my phone whenever I’m flying into the US.

TIL Indonesia have glaciers (for now…)

Any Lemmy app where I can filter out content on keywords like Trump and Musk will be my new daily.

I don’t think it’s the case here, I think this is just some PWA bug, but you could in theory get paid for showing the ad without the hassle of users complaining about being shown the ad.

Not an answer to OP; I use iCloud, but I still want my own, external backup of that and have found some good solutions.

I previously used icloudpd which I run from docker and that synced all files to a NAS from where I took backups. It works great and I highly recommended.

However, I recently turned on Advanced Data Protection on iCloud, which disables the API icloudpd relied upon, so now I’m using osxphotos instead. It works just as good.

You’ll have to turn on downloading all originals to your Mac for this to work. Personally I had to buy an external disk and move the photo library on my Mac mini server to it to have enough storage.