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I've written a series of blog posts about a "hands-off" self-hosting setup intended for relative beginners.

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I haven't tried photoprism in a while, but when I tried it, it wasn't even close.

Photoprism seems more suited if you're a photographer to index your professional work where immich aims to be a google photos/icloud alternative.

Immich has native mobile apps to do the syncing and provide a (great) interface for search, it has much better multi-user support, including sharing albums, and much more features than I'm willing to type out here.

The only thing missing, for me at least, is better support for local files to eliminate the need for another gallery app/file picker.

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Apple Was Caught Off Guard by MacBook Neo's "Off the Charts" Demand

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To be pedantic, macs are usually supported for 7 OS releases, which are annual. Every OS version is then supported for about 3 years. So a new Mac released this year will receive its last update in about 10 years.

Not great, not terrible. Also, idk about the apple silicon macs, but with the Intel macs there was usually a way to update it unofficially past the 7 year last supported version, stretching it for a few more.

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I've been using Outline for a while now. It has access control, external login (oidc, LDAP, GitHub, etc), a markdown compatible editor, plenty of integrations and is open source.

It's fairly new and has some annoying bugs like not being able to resize mermaid diagrams, but for basic text articles it's perfect.

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Elon Musk calls Pedro Sánchez 'tyrant' over plans to ban minors from using social media

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I agree with all of those, but they point towards adolescents, where people are gaining adulthood.

For kids under say, 14 years old, you can simply look at children in your direct vicinity and observe the impact of abundant use of things like Youtube, Roblox and others (sorry I'm not hip with it), where it is impacting their motor and cooperative skills, as well as their confidence.

Saying that the platforms used by minors are an important aspect of their social life feels incredulous to me, given that spending time together IRL is such a big factor in learning how to converse with people with differing opinions, without being shielded from them by some engagement-optimizing algorithm.

Where I live, all of that, combined with the enormous pressure social media puts on these kids to always have to take others' cameras in mind, with the ads showing them all sorts of bs, makes me feel like I wouldn't have made it out of childhood like I have done.

Of course there are positives too, as you pointed out. Having an easily accessible network of peers could be a great help with questions you'd never ask anyone in your direct vicinity. Except that no platform where kids gather is actually safe, and easily transforms into grooming platforms.

So yea, a ban is definitely a ham-fisted approach, but in my opinion, given the already sketchy situation surrounding the privacy for such an age check, I personally can't think of a better solution or middle ground to keep the positives of social media. Maybe force the platforms to abandon their current algorithms?

Sorry if it's hard to read, i tried to proofread but I'm on mobile.

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Apple Was Caught Off Guard by MacBook Neo's "Off the Charts" Demand

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I mean I ran my 2011 mbp into the ground, until the point that the SMC's fan channels stopped working and it always rebooted at exactly 00:00 for no apparent reason, and never had issues with apps not being able to run on a 3 year old version of the OS. After that 3 year period most apps still worked, although some would indeed start targeting newer api's.

I know it was volunteering work, and I don't want to defend apple any further than strictly here, but saying they "murdered" the OS every 7 years is just straight up not true, that was all I wanted to say.