Yes, when you mount the external library (when setting up docker), you can set it as read-only. 👌

My use case:

I use a Synology NAS to backup my photos/videos. On mobile, I use the Synology Photos app for 100% of the backups, because it’s been 100% reliable for me over the years.

I basically run Immich in read-only mode, and specifically for searches. The contextual search is incredible, and after putting it side-by-side with a very expensive Windows software that uses local AI search, it came out on top… no contest.

So in that sense, I’m very happy!

One does not torrent porn by accident, so Meta is doing this on purpose and hoping they don’t get caught.

And if they do, so what? Any legal consequences would have very little impact on the benefits they gained.

META wins again.

Life has been so good with Linux.

5% is too many. 15% is alarming.

We’re talking people who believe in an ideology of hate, violence, racism, and the erosion of rights and freedoms.

Wars were fought to make sure this shit never happened again, and here we are, happening all over the world.

Only a matter of time before megacorps put ads and a subscription service on bird calls, now. 😫

So, Trump’s meeting with Putin went well? Fucking monsters.

Funny, now you’ll have the cops arresting you for prompts like “how to survive being homeless?”, rather than social services when you prompt “how to avoid being homeless?”.

And will authorities be called when someone prompts “how to shoot wild animals?” when asking about wildlife photography? 😆

Read the contracts you sign when you buy your phone

Contracts? Unless I’m buying a subsidized phone where a mobile phone plan is required, I’m not sure what other contract I’d be signing. I never got one from Samsung, OnePlus, Google, any used marketplace, or Amazon.

They get paid, and I get hardware to do what I like with it. If I can’t do what I want with it, then I’m renting, and I should be paying a rental fee, not a “full price”.

Google says it’s no different than checking IDs at the airport.

Fucker, if I own the airport, own the planes in the airport, am the only person using my own planes in my own airport, then nobody is asking for my ID.

Our phone, our software choice.

I seriously only want to have options for sorting when I do a search. That’s the only thing that I need for it to be “perfect”.

This specific brand is Reolink, but I have no doubt that other brands do the same thing.

I have a security camera by a very popular brand, and much to my surprise, I was suddenly unable to use it unless I updated to the latest firmware.

The thing is, the update software said that I was on the latest version.

It took days, physical intervention with a ladder to gain access to the camera, and the company tech support, to force an update to the camera, allowing me to use it once again.

That made me realize that the expensive security cameras I’m using aren’t mine, and might as well be rentals. Because the company could, at any time, render my entire system useless unless I meet their demands, which could be a forced subscription or worse.

The enshittification of paid hardware has no bounds!

Long press, ‘disable’. You’re welcome. 👍

I once asked Gemini for steps to do something pretty basic in Linux (as a novice, I could have figured it out). The steps it gave me were not only nonsensical, but they seemed to be random steps for more than one problem all rolled into one. It was beyond useless and a waste of time.

These standards have also spread to more common fashion, advertising clothes for ordinary people.

No doubt.

If there’s a method for that, that actually works, that would be great.

First, block and avoid ads. They are poison to the mind. Dropping social media is also strongly suggested.

It’s hard to not fall prey to marketing companies if ads surround you on a daily basis, and I can’t honestly imagine how difficult it must be for any teen who uses the internet or apps unfiltered. It’s a losing battle if those influences aren’t dealt with first.

So there is 100% an unhealthy attitude towards weight in the fashion industry, that needs to be regulated.

In fairness, the fashion industry is a circus, almost literally. The stuff you see on the runway is so ridiculous that they might as well simply be costumes and not clothes. And the models, while they do suffer real consequences, are forced to have an unhealthy look to fit the character they play in this circus.

I would much rather see positive education into how to actually be fit and healthy, so that teens have no reason to look at these circus performers as a template.

but there also needs to be the possibility for clothes brands that specialize in clothing for “big” people to show their products in a reasonable way.

Absolutely. The reality is, people come in all different shapes and sizes, so there’s a realistic expectation that they’ll still need to buy clothes. But the normalization of super heavy (or super skinny) needs to go away.

a fashion standard people pursue, being extremely thin is.

I strongly disagree.

Standard people want to look healthy, fit, and maybe have some muscle. You know, the stuff that the majority would say brings sex appeal.

But nobody wants to look like a sad, malnourished bonerack, unless they have an eating disorder. I’d argue that most people find the look of gauntness, protruding bones, no muscle, etc. to be unflattering and quite disgusting. There are probably studies on this, I haven’t looked.

The issue is that the fashion industry seems to like this look, and people with eating disorders find validation in that. It is a terrible cycle, no denying that.

That does beg the question, though: why not set the standard by having fit people wear your clothing? Why malnourished and sickly? Only a tiny fraction of the population has an eating disorder that causes them to be underweight, and I doubt very much that these companies are making all their profits off them.

It is not just about being unhealthy, it’s about not setting unhealthy standards.

I agree, which is why we should not be normalizing obesity, one of the top causes of death and morbidity, in advertisements. This isn’t an opinion, I already linked a study showing that ads, even when intended to be positive, negatively affect obese people due to the normalization of this unhealthy standard.

Such a disgusting display. Most normal people don’t want anything to do with rapists and child molesters, yet here’s Tim.

I’d agree if you were arguing about banning all unhealthy behaviours in ads.

I’m for that.

I don’t think fat people need to be brought into it in this case though, this law is about the fashion industry encouraging eating disorders.

Per the paper I linked a few replies back, it’s completely relevant and urgent to bring fat people into this, because there is real harm in the messaging they receive, and it’s having even greater real-world consequences (due to the greater number of people impacted).

The fashion industry does need to be addressed. But I also think that people forget that fashion models also victims. The whole thing is awful.