I think you got me wrong here. The implication should he that repairability is good for the environment and a standardized form factor enables repairability. It’s not the best solution but still better than everything glued in, but you seem to not agree on that one either, do you?

I think so, but I think it’s a bad development. Rechargeable devices tend to be non-repairable and ultimately bad for the environment. A, AAA, etc are ultimately just standardized interfaces with standardized form factors and voltage, the actual batteries are available in both one-time-use and rechargeable variants. I think we should keep them around as they enable us to use our devices for a longer time without costly repairs or even disposal of the device itself. This does not apply to very complex and energy intensive devices like smart phones though, as they obviously require more sophisticated and space optimized batteries.

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The MicroPython pyboard is a compact electronic circuit board that runs MicroPython on the bare metal, giving you a low-level Python operating system that can be used to control all kinds of electronic projects.

Literally the second paragraph

Also, Nextcloud/Owncloud are written in PHP, that might also have a significant impact on its poor reliability ^^

I’m pretty sure its in order for you to see more ads. If the article shows a read more button after a paragraph there’s more room for ads and you’re more likely to accidentally scroll down and view them.

Yeah I think generally it would make more sense for individual instances to focus on specific topics, like programming.dev on programming or feddit.org for Europe.

It still makes sense to have the same communities in different languages if you ask me. There may also be other instances where this might actually be good.

But yeah, I don’t need ten different tech communities all serving the same purpose.

Sure! There’re actually a couple of things I like:

• It’s actually one of the few apps that still work like a traditional photo management app: It works on the base of a file-based library that has synchronization added on top. This enables me to freely move my library around, easily create backups of it or even reverse-engineer it. I’m aware there are brilliant foss apps like DigiKam (KDE/Linux) but they lack other aspects like synchronization and are not as tightly integrated.
• I’m still able to be somewhat independent on Apple: Since the library is file-based and I can extract my images using either my own tool or one of the tools available on GitHub, I can easily migrate away from apple should they start doing fishy things.
• Privacy-wise Apple seems to be one of the better options: Metadata like face recognition are computed locally on-device. I know there are more privacy oriented options like Ente, but their feature-set is not quite as mature as I need it.
• I just really like the apps: They’re well-integrated, easy to use and I like the editing capabilities. I also like the way they handle edited photos etc.

Organization-wise there’s nothing special. The only thing I do is to organize my images into albums.

To sum it up: It’s highly subjective but for my workflow it’s a good mix of autonomy and still good user experience.

I use a self-written tool to extract my images and videos from Apple Photos and back them up incrementally as files and directories using Borg Backup.

Using this approach I retain full ownership over my data without having to look for alternatives to Apple Photos, which I really enjoy using.

As a result, I have a “live” copy on my iPhone/Mac/iCloud, a backup on my NAS and a remote Borg Backup repository in a data center.