When your digital life vanishes(newyorker.com) |
When your digital life vanishes(newyorker.com) |
I'm on immich; photos are my most important.
Haven't found something to offload the on device files - like saved attachments from texts.
the commands I use are:
see if phone is connected:
lsusb
idevicebackup2 backup <backup-dir>
ifuse mount -o allow_other /mnt
rsync -av /mnt <out-dir>
command 2 will create a directory containing most of the phone data in an understanable format. for example photos will be in <out-dir>/DCIM, for example DCIM/100APPLE/IMG_0170.HEIC
*: what apple allows you to back up. for example, if you have the kindle app on your phone, neither the app itself, or the kindle books will be backed up. If you restore the backup, you will have to re-download the kindle app, and re-download the book files.
The lack of selfhosting support on iPhones is the main reason why I'm on android.
I have multiple syncthings between phone and home nas:
- Photos (immich on server/mobile). I use master on phone, so immich don't delete on phone, and then rotate my folders out of syncthing directory and then clean my on device camera photo every few months
- Notes: (Obsidian on server/mobile). flawless
- SyncFolder: random folder to move between the two.
If no AI was in use for its creation process, I do so wholeheartedly hope, then every single folder features ideas/message in quite genius attitudes, I believe, and the whole work deserves a physical frame!
The illustrator credits are easier to see in print, easy to miss in this story.
Art... love still exists! Thank you, dear sanjit, Carolina Moscoso, and Julian Lucas at NewYorker for the ineffably magnificent art... miracles you do...
And if AI was used, that would decrease your enjoyment?
You might be better off never looking too deeply into how the sausage is made.
Saying this on "Hacker News" seems a bit misguided lol