I’m using the apps: both Drive and Photos, at least. Works very well for me. For backup, I do a physical backup daily to an attached external hard drive, and weekly to a remote cloud option

It might not solve all your needs, or your use case specifically, but I’ve got myself a Synology NAS and that has been a solid alternative to Google Photos for me.

Spot on. And as a result I have moved as much as possible away from Google myself. Email, Drive, Photos, Search etc. I’m happy

They’re worth a lot if you’re laundering money

What do you mean? You didnt go out and spend all your money on reproducable jpegs? Whats wrong with you?

Feels like a stretch. Elaborate?

Support is important, but being a PC, you can get that from 3rd party solutions like ChimeraOS

Mostly I’m just enjoying all the competition in this sector - it’s good for consumers

I came across this insane opinion piece the other day: https://www.laptopmag.com/features/mind-eurown-business-for-the-sake-of-the-iphone-apple-needs-to-fight-back

It’s so surreal, it feels satirical

And you’ll probably want both anyway

I love the look of 1mm and it’s excellent for quick prototypes. Otherwise I pretty much stick to 0.4. I have multiple printers so I have different nozzles on different printers

I saw a headline about that. Oh man - so much of this unnerves the hell out of me

I’ve just created

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Both can be very active communities once people are there

Reddit most certainly did not win. Win what, anyway? Many long-time users and moderators left the platform.

Very good point. I can imagine that they are currently just trying to prevent a deluge of fully AI generated content with this policy and will then adjust accordingly.