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I was given a work laptop and I don't really use laptops as a laptop these days, I hate being away from my multi-screen setup. It's basically a desktop for all intents and purposes. Once every 6 months I need to bring my laptop out of the house...and I suppose for those times a nano would be nice.

The regular 5c feels like the better purchase - bigger form factor, nice big touch area, big LED that I can't miss. But on the other hand, it kind of feels silly not to purchase the one designed for laptops. I have to admit the low profile sleekness of it does seem appealing.

BTW I don't think my behaviour is going to change any time soon. The last time I regularly used laptops away from my desk was probably 15 years ago. I just prefer to sit at my desk in a proper chair with a full sized keyboard and mouse these days.

What do you all think?

This could be the stupidest thing ever...or brilliant. I'm not sure yet.

It's for my dad's birthday - after a break in, he's become obsessed with surveillance. His house is littered with G6 cameras and he sits there watching them for hours. It's turned from paranoia into what just seems like a hobby now. Kind of like urban bird watching. Retirement-life, I guess.

For shits and giggles I thought why not get him an AI horn. This is commercial / industrial level annoyance, to be installed in a residential property. I've either made a huge mistake and this is going to land with a thud, or he'll love it. I have no idea what to expect.

At the very least, I'm going to enable him to live out his best "old man yelling at clouds" life.

UPDATE: he was confused at first about what this was, and then I loaded it with this to help him understand how spectacularly stupid this is:

https://movie-sounds.org/alex-murphy-robocop

It kind of surprised me that I have to tap twice, just checking if this is the correct workflow or whether I'm using this wrong?

The whole point of favourites is to get quick access to something, so it kind of seems counter-intuitive to me to bury it in a menu. Does anyone know if there's a way to pull this up a level?

I don't take that many photos on a daily or even monthly basis, so when I'm trying to flick through 20 years worth of photos, particularly if I'm drilled down into just one sub-album, there's often huge white gaps everywhere and it's a bit of a waste of space.

I'd like to have a more compact view, does anyone know if this is possible?

I'm testing a new video hosting service, I have a few days of free credits, I want to see roughly how much this is going to cost me when my trial expires. Excuse the audio quality.

And in slow mo: https://player.mediadelivery.net/play/697566/377c8631-1ca9-4f72-b422-aa95ff070d3c

I bought this knowing the mountain of shortcomings it has, and I was worried that as I started using it more, they would begin affecting me, but so far they haven't and I'm really happy with this purchase.

The biggest thing for me was easy cloud backups (I use Backblaze B2) and easy snapshotting etc. This is something I could easily accomplish through some basic scripting but I wanted a simple, clean, robust interface and notifications for this. I didn't want any doubt at all about whether my job ran successfully or not...did I configure it right...did it fall over cause I didn't keep it up to date or something. Yes it's silly that the biggest value add for me was having a nice UI to replace something I could probably script up in 5 mins, but that was important to me.

Otherwise, I use it as a NAS. I connect a bunch of stuff around the home to it and just perform backups as a central data transfer hub. Nothing special at all.

Anyway I thought I'd chime in as a happy customer - I know it has shortcomings and I've seen a lot of people confused about why anyone would even buy this, but there definitely is a market for products like this.

18 months ago I started using Immich, but only as a way to bring my old photos back to life (they were sitting on an external HDD). However, I didn't want to take the next step of using as my day-to-day driver of new photos until I had sorted out what my transfer strategy would be. Do I use the built in sync function? Do I handle these transfers outside of Immich? Now that I've tested it all and have settled on which route to take, I've made the leap!

The only thing I keep on my phone now are photos and videos that I'm actively working on / editing, as it's a bit easier, especially with stuff like slow-mo footage, but everything else is now routinely shifted off my phone. It's so liberating to have full control over my content now.

(for those of you wondering which route I took, I'm handling all transfers outside of Immich using PhotoSync. I loathe having to use a separate tool for this when Immich has it built in, but the fact that Immich doesn't retain all the original versions on iPhone was kind of a dealbreaker for me...I hope this is resolved one day, I'd love for Immich to handle it all end to end)

I enabled backups, selected a test album, and turned on “Sync Albums”. I put two photos into my test album: Photo A and B. I synced them and they appeared in Immich. So far so good.

I then removed Photo B from the album in the Photos app (not Immich). In Immich, I then forced a sync by pressing “Organize into albums”.

At this point I expected Photo B would remain in Immich, but it would be removed from the album, but it’s still there even after a manual sync. Is this the way Immich is supposed to work?

So I'm very new to world of NASeses, and at the beginning I didn't quite buy into the whole "a NAS should be a NAS, not a whole freaking server" thing. I thought why not? What's wrong with having Jellyfin on it, or Plex, etc etc etc.

Now I get it. I finally understand it.

However, the one minor thing that keeps nagging away at me is Syncthing. I wish I didn't have to keep at least two machines on to create a Dropbox-like experience.

Does this run against the grain of "a NAS should just be allowed to be a NAS" philosophy? Is it blasphemy that I even say this? Cause even though I thought it should be able to do more at first, I've never found the desire at all...I keep a dedicated server for all that crap.

Except, I keep longing for Syncthing...

At first I thought it was just another password manager but then I realised it’s focused on legacy management.

I‘m trying to think whether it’s redundant cause I have a bunch of existing measures (recovery sheet, offline + offsite backups etc)…or does it fill some sort of gap? I’m curious if anyone has thought of a gap it might fill? If there are interesting use cases I’d love to hear them.

I originally posted this in the YK sub.

I expected a trade-off between security and usability. It would be more secure, sure, but it would also make things much worse from a usability perspective...

...but here I am, actually preferring to use it. I only need to enter a pin rather than my Bitwarden master password. Yes I know you can set a pin on password managers, but it's not exactly the same as a hardware token.

Color me surprised. I did not expect this outcome.

(sorry I just realised this is missing some context that might confuse some people, a few months ago Bitwarden updated their browser plugin so that you can use your Yubikey now to log in, it's really cool...I don't use Yubikey for everything, mainly as a "gate" into my BW to avoid having to enter my master password too often...I think if I used it for everything that would be a little too much friction, though I'm slowly opening myself up to that as I'm really loving this device)

ALSO: I actually prefer using my Yubikey over Windows Hello, too. Yeah seriously, I would never have believed it would be better. I'm used to the lighting fast biometrics on Apple devices, and found Windows Hello to be a massive step down in terms of pure responsiveness (it's noticeably slower) and usability (e.g. in a multi-screen laptop setup, the authentication status indicator isn't always on the laptop's screen where the camera is, FFS, so you've got one eye on your laptop's screen trying to position it for a scan, and another eye looking at the other screen, trying to see if your face has been ID'ed successfully, omg who designs this trash)

It seems like an obvious omission to me but I wonder if there's a security angle I'm not seeing?