I know a few folks in that situation - likely people who the originally designed fibre roll-out would have hit, but instead got a substandard connection.

I’m not so sure it’s a full death spiral though, one would hope that the fibre retrofit can catch a lot of these up.

I’ve (foolishly) ended up needing to go to Officeworks to get a photo printed… I’m expecting to be there most of the morning.

Came in to criticise the writing too. Got AI or at least bad translation vibes. Really hard to follow.

Deadloch would like to have a word.

But seriously, I can imagine 50% of people saying in the abstract they would like more locally produced content, though I’m not sure that it would actually affect purchasing behaviour.

Is this actually unpopular? Give me web interface that works OK on mobile and I’m usually a happy camper.

It’s been quite a while since I played through SOTC, and maybe it’s the passage of time but I recall the frustration being a minor part of the play and ultimately balancing itself nicely with the thrill of actually taking down the Colossus.

With that said even when I was playing it maybe 10 years back (so long after release) a lot of the control and feel had not aged well so I get where you’re coming from.

Photoprism, running on a Raspberry Pi 4. I’m just running it as a single user, and it’s been working well for that. A couple of notes:

• Video transcoding is a bit iffy on the rpi, but I’m running it under docker and might just move it all to a mini pc at some point
• I don’t have it accessible publicly, but get to it online via Tailscale
• No app, but the Web interface is good.
• I’m currently running it in “read only” mode (mainly out of initial paranoia when trying it out, but it seems fine) so I have syncthing backing up the photos from my phone wirelessly and occasionally do an import of new images in.