If Seinfeld told a backup joke:

"You know how to take the backup, you just don't know how to restore the backup. And that's really the most important part of the backup, the restoring. Anybody can just copy a file!"

Amazing question with nobody really answering your question 100%.

The answer is : it's hard. If you only have a iphone and more photos on your icloud than can fit on your phone, you're kinda screwed if you don't know what you're doing.

AFAIK Apple makes it very difficult to get all your icloud photos bulk downloaded, original quality off icloud.

Google is no better.

It's much easier to start backing up from the beginning but once you're stuck on icloud it's hard.

Not a very good answer.

If you have a Mac with sufficient storage, you can just enable iCloud to store photos locally, then export them. That could miss some data (I think descriptions you set for a photo were not exported the last time I checked), but it is most of the data.

Do you need to export them? Can you not copy the library file to a different drive?

I did not try it, and I am nervous the day I need to - but I think there are some solutions to export photos from the Apple technology stack using open source software [1,2,3].

I remember seeing a longer blogpost re the topic of retroengineering the Apple phot sync story, but I could not find it.

[1] github.com/rcarmo/PhotosExport [2] https://github.com/craigtrim/icloud-photo-export [3] https://icloud-photos-downloader.github.io/icloud_photos_dow...

Yup. Only reason I'm on OneDrive is that they don't mess with photos and their metadata. For now, at least.

I guess it's because the core offering is still some version of "a folder that syncs", and the photo gallery is just a view bolted on top.

I steer clear of any solutions scoped to photos only, as it always turns out they either screw you up by reducing quality and throwing away the originals, or trying to lock you in by only offering metadata they keep in a database they will not let you export.

I seem to remember being able to select all of the photos in iCloud in a browser and clicking download. It zips them and it worked.

I would imagine this doesn't work well after a certain amount of data. I’m also not sure they were the originals.

Reminds me of a story: I was sitting at a restaurant waiting for my food. I casually notice two young children in the next booth playing with a phone, but pay little attention.

Moments later their dad (presumably) comes back and asks for his phone back and sits down with their food. The kids are eating and the dad is fumbling with his phone with odd looks and I can see his frustration growing.

Then out I hear something like "What did you do to my phone?" repeated loudly over and over. "You erased my phone, it's gone."

The small children (guessing) had figured out how to factory reset his phone.

My thought at the time was something like : How many times did I do something as a toddler I don't remember to piss of my dad like that and that he never got mad or brought it up later (Lots of times knowing myself).

and of course, it doesnt matter that he is their dad, or even that they are small children.

The wise man sees that when a fool has broken his system, its no use getting angry at the fool. Make the system better.

In this instance, the system worked as designed. Phone got wiped after too many incorrect PIN inputs.

For hanging as art, just found this https://github.com/dmellok/el133-pico-driver

Uses a native C driver instead of python so you can run the display off a battery as it's more efficient.

I've had a number of thinkpads and nucs with vpro/amt. All the things you say are technically correct, in practice the software and feature set are horribly documented. I've spent numerous hours trying to get it to work reliably only to find out something is too old or not supported or just disabled.

The phsyical kvms just work and worth the $.

Because HN/nerds like to think of ourselves as objective, open to the truth and data driven results. Then we find out, we're no better than the average, just different topics.

MJ was not a "Black man" he was the best player of all time, That is what people see, not color. Everyone wanted to be like Mike.

I swear the people arguing for this are some of the most racist thinking people, at least the Maga crowd is up front with it.

This is the naive short term way to think of a stock price. I assure you fund managers, hedge funds etc do not. And I'm sure you can reply with an anecdote, but that doesn't prove the rule of 'any stock'.

Over 50 here, I use the following as a test of someone's general balance/strength/flexibility:

Taking off your socks/shoes(tie/untie) without sitting down: hard for most in their 20/30s. Very hard with out bending over.

Pants are what gets hard when you get older, if you can't put on/off pants without sitting down I'd advise some basic training and/or doctor to help.

*assumes otherwise healthy person with no disabilities. I'm not a doctor, this is my own opinion.

Similarly, when I was younger, I came across this test: Sit down on the floor (all the way, butt on the ground). Now stand without using your hands at all. I was told that inability to do that was a strong indicator of failing health.

I imagine there's lots of different ways to evaluate general fitness like that.

That's a good one, I can get up without hands no problems. Sitting without a thud is a bit harder.

Watch a toddler move around on the ground, they are incredible flexible and strong.

You're not wrong, but I'm fairly certain that if we did have a multi party system and ranked voting, not much would be different.

This is because the people on HN, Reddit etc are a minority. The views expressed here are not publicly supported by the people who actually go out and vote. Those people are not online writing in these long threads on the same topics over and over again.