and who upgraded to 27 and what do you think of it?

The app is called Keyboard2 and i bout it back when it was a paid app. It got delisted and popped up again recently. It is super customizable and has longpress shortcuts. (main reason i bought it in the first place.) the swipe-typing is WAY too sensitive though.

I recently got my hands on a 2nd Generation iPod Touch, it’s been definitely an experience

I love its size and how lightweight it is after getting over the bootloop I noticed the beauty of its OS, and the zoom in animation when opening apps is unbeatable

due to the age of the device I needed a way to leave its home button alone, so I jailbroke it

despite its age, I managed to find compatible tweaks and a lot of websites work with a couple of fixes installed

I wonder if there’s a working no-computer way to add media to it, I found PwnTunes, but it tried to fetch a trial license from an already shut down server and did not sync because of that

I also tried IPA Installler CLI, but it seems like this device’s CPU architecture isn’t compatible with that tool, so I couldn’t

for now it’s a tech playground, but I would like to find a use case for it, and if I can’t I would think about selling it, I already own a music device and it’s easier to work with that one

have you ever got an iPod Touch?

I just backed up all 58,000 of my images to my NAS. 24 of them failed to backup. The thumbnail is so small I cannot tell what all of them are. The majority are memes and shit that idgaf about, but there is one that I can tell is from a digital camera by the file name.

Searching for the file name in photos yields no results, is there a way to find this image with nothing more than the file name?

Update: if you have a Mac you can search the file name in photos there and it works.

There is a lot to cover, but the title sums it up. I stopped keeping my photos in the cloud because of money and privacy reasons, but at the same time I couldn’t find a nice software that wasn’t a web app or an Electron web app that would run on iPhones and iPads, and would let me browse the library without headaches.

So I built Raza Photos. Completely written in modern Swift 6, requiring the latest Apple frameworks, needing at least macOS and iOS 26 (sorry), with no Internet connectivity, no telemetry, no phoning home, no ads, no subscriptions, no accounts.

You import the photo folders you want the Mac app. It safely indexes the metadata, leaves the photos exactly where they are, and uses Bonjour to advertise itself on your local network. You can start or stop the server if you want to use the app by yourself or publish the library to the whole family. When you open Raza Photos on any iPhone, iPad, or Mac in the house, it instantly discovers the server. If you have multiple Macs hosting libraries, it finds them all and shows a complete library, with deduplicated filters.

You can browse, filter by date, location, people, albums and events, and you can even edit metadata from iOS while on the couch. The changes can go back to the original files as XMP/EXIF, without touching the image pixels. You can add countries and cities to photos that have GPS data and you can browse them all on a map. Face detection is done locally on the device.

The app is free for now, but it will be a one time purchase of around 20 USD. In the future I plan to add photo transfer from iOS to the Mac server, so you can backup your photos or migrate them away from iCloud. I also plan more photo management features like date taken conflict resolution and better face detection. And I also plan to extract a Swift headless server for Linux which you could put on a NAS, but I am a just solo dev, so bug fixes and features will come at a slower pace. I also plan a video app and a music app with the same features.

It's so limiting because of how locked down iOS is. I can do a lot with an NFC tag but can't make a VCard work. That's the one thing I really want to work! HAHA. Any ideas? Any news on Apple making this work eventually?