Comment on YouTube cracking on ad blockers.

• chilicheeselies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Google photo sucks

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  • papertowels@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What do you prefer using?

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    • fiddlestix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Immich is on a par with Google Photos, imo. It’s self hosted though, so not for everyone.

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      • papertowels@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah I have an immich instance myself, and do plan on relying more on that as I max out my Google drive size.

        The bigger issue I gave with that is remote backup still imposes a cost, and like you said you gotta know what you’re doing to safely expose that to the Internet.

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  • bitflag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I personally love it. Being able to search “Tom at the beach drinking a cocktail” and get all the relevant pictures is magic.

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  • lustrum@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Does it? It’s a fantastic service that works really well, whether it’s worth the price or privacy is a slightly different conversation

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    • ZiemekZ@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      whether it’s worth the price

      You don’t have to pay Google a penny. I bought a quite cheap (50-60$) used but working Pixel 1 XL specifically for unlimited lifetime full-quality Google Photos upload.

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• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You got me! Android came after maps in 2008. So that’s not a great argument for recent development. Is pixel meaningfully different than Nexus? That would put it in 2010, or 2016 if you insist pixel is a big innovation.

  Chromebooks are also a 2010 project.

  Google pay I don’t think is a success? Didn’t they like relaunch it recently and shit it up by tying it to phone numbers instead of your Google account? arstechnica.com/…/google-pays-disastrous-year-con… arstechnica.com/…/google-pay-hopes-to-recover-fro… . Also the original release is 2011. Quite some time ago. But technically newer than maps!

  Drive is 2012. Dang, got me. But that’s still more than 10 years old, so my actual point seems to stand.

  Chromecast is 2013, so maybe within this decade.

  Auto is 2015 but I know nothing about it.

  I guess I should’ve said “in the past 7 years” instead of exaggerating and saying since maps!

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  • bitflag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But all “successes” are gonna be years old. You don’t turn something like Chromebook into an overnight success. It takes years for an ecosystem to grow, users to find use cases, software revisions to polish the product, word of mouth, etc.

    For comparison the Apple watch came out in 2015 and Airpods in 2016. What other successes has Apple had in the past 7 years? Maybe their AR thing will take off, but if it does it’s probably 5-10 years from becoming a mass market product.

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