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by lutr 3mo ago
Haha, that's fair! You know how it is – I'm not mad, just disappointed :P
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by lutr 3mo ago
I self-host Immich on a personal home server. I do pay for backups, though. For 65GB of images (not a lot) I pay ~$1/mo to Backblaze. The backed-up data is 30% bigger in size right now (= 82GB), as it's incremental.
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by lutr 3mo ago
This is 100% true. I also lost all my old Yahoo accounts because I didn't log into them for >1 year. Same for a lot of videos I made on a nice little site called GoAnimate. So keeping data is better than removing it! Even charging a
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by lutr 3mo ago
Yes. I don't think I'd uploaded anything on that specific account that I recovered.
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by lutr 3mo ago
Haha, that's fair! I wrote the post because I thought it was actually kinda funny. And when I found out the account was empty, I did stop the subscription. But I guess I didn't realize in time that I could go even further and requ
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by lutr 3mo ago
Yes, I'm at fault here with missing the e-mails. The Photobucket account was registered using an old e-mail address that I was using as a kid. I happened to find the account by accident, by scrolling through my password manager. So the
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by lutr 3mo ago
Yes, that's exactly it! I must have had multiple accounts. I don't think they deleted any of my images.
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by lutr 3mo ago
That's exactly it! And the saying fits so well here, in the literal sense too!
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by lutr 3mo ago
Agreed! I'd (sadly) pay more than $5 to recover some childhood memories that some services have deleted instead. Not $5/mo, though (I hate that part too).
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by lutr 3mo ago
To be fair I'm doing that now, with Immich (= a "self-hosted Google Photos"). I was just curious to find out what things I was screnshotting as a kid.
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by lutr 3mo ago
Life really is a series of xkcds, it turns out!
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by lutr 3mo ago
Would be a nice part 2 :P. But I've already had enough with this "side mission". Maybe I'll try a charge back and see if that works, though.
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by lutr 3mo ago
100%!! In fact I'm also using Immich and it's amazing! It's as good as the Google Photos app, but you own your data and can more cheaply upgrade your storage, if needed. On that old Photobucket account I was hoping to find sc
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by lutr 3mo ago
Huh, never did a charge back in my life (I'm not from the US, charge backs aren't a big thing here). I'll give it a shot, just for fun :). I use a debit card and I wasn't even sure you can do charge backs with them. But
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by lutr 3mo ago
They must have sent them to me too. However, the Photobucket account was registered using an e-mail address I no longer use . I found the account by accident, by scrolling through my password manager. The e-mail account was fully emptied
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by lutr 3mo ago
It's true, doing things carefully can avoid a ton of problems in life. I guess I wasn't expecting to have to use my full attention for a little "side mission". And I'd already made peace with losing those $5. "
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by lutr 3mo ago
Ah, no, by "childhood memories" I meant like whatever I was screnshotting as a kid. Believe it or not, but finding old screenshots like 10 years later is sooo sweet! For my actual chilhood photos , I'm using a little self-ho
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by lutr 3mo ago
If it was just that, I'd be okay-ish with it (even though it started out as a service). But pushing a monthly subscription for a 1-time action? Man.....
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by lutr 3mo ago
Yeah, makes sense. I think it's just a little honeypot for fools that don't do their research. 1 prompt to Claude would have saved me the pain, probably. ("Research" isn't even that hard nowadays!)
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by lutr 3mo ago
Yeah. To be fair I'm not that mad about it. It was a very poetic moment that I'll forever cherish...
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by lutr 3mo ago
Right?? I mean again, I could have gotten a refund in 48 hours, per the smallprint... But I noticed it about ~3 months too late, while writing about this. But it's okay. Getting those $5 back would make Photobucket look slightly better
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by lutr 3mo ago
Well... If I was smarter, I'd have definitely done that!
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Want your images back? That'll be $5(lutr.dev)
664 points by lutr 3mo ago|267 comments
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Open-source has saved me $150.11 yearly(lutr.dev)
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Show HN: A CLI for merging your files into one for seamless AI prompting(github.com)
1 points by lutr 2y ago|0 comments