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Wonder if it would serve well as the brains of a smart mirror? And if you have the inclination to make one…

https://magicmirror.builders/

All roads lead to Pieces these days, might as well embrace it 😂

Gemini - your FBI agent goes to therapy because of you

Hahahahaha

“LinkOpensChest_wave…you magnificent bastard…”

This has got to be where the idea for transparent wood came from…

What you’re holding there is Prototype-0

Google could have simply preserved my metadata OR sent the files in “artist/album”

Which they most certainly can do. My condolences to the time you’ll never get back.

I suppose the silver lining is familiarity with a new set of tools and mechanisms for working through arduous minutia of it all. Could be a pretty neat utility if it could all be packaged up.

This right here is the fail safe that all these SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and other aaS offerings have inherently built into themselves. They make it so “easy” to get your data (as they put it) but so fucking mind-numbingly annoying to have it any kind of usable/archive-able format.

If I want to move my data from one platform to something else, it shouldn’t involve a Six Sigma certified consultant, a bag of bespoke tools, and a sacrificial offering. This isn’t a CRM migration at a multi-national conglomerate, I just want my files (you can have em!) in a usable format (they’ll work!) correctly named and structured (yeah, no…)

The average person isn’t going to go through the lengths you’ve gone through here; because they’ll try to and just go right back. I mean, the average person has a hard enough time getting affordable groceries…forget about a sacrificial blood letting.

Out of curiosity, how much time did you spend researching as you went through this process of hitting speedbump after speedbump?