eyesaremosaics

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[–] eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It would lead to a whistle and restart the same way you can't just sit on a ball to waste time. Not sure what the rule is called but yeah it's covered in the rules

[–] eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

That's a good suggestion, I'll try some kind of temporary bits of padding first to try and work out what is going on. It is a plausible explanation of how the problem appeared, because I can't see anything wrong

[–] eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

The problem with finding where and how to make adjustments is I can't work out the physics/engineering of what is causing it, or what the original design was meant to be like. But the other comment does sound useful in this way

[–] eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

I haven't tried that, sounds like it's worth a check

 

I've tried replacing the fans but the problem is still there, it sounds like a fan rubbing and it gets worse if the laptop gets flexed in some way.

I took it apart to look for the issue, but I can't see anything, when it is open and upside down it runs quiet, unless you press certain places to make it flex around the fan, which is not unexpected. But I can't see anything out of place or see what can be fixed.

The laptop is a Dell XPS 15

[–] eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I thought the pope was talking about Defenestration, sorely disappointed

[–] eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do you need to remember to open it regularly? Or is it sending you notifications? You mention that you open it and then it does a sync, how often do you need to do this?

[–] eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do you need to interact with it regularly for it to work in the background?

[–] eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

The more I have to deal with them the less interesting they become.. they work best for people who want to just do what apple tell them

[–] eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Interesting, is that through a particular app, or from cable-based syncing?

[–] eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

.. Interesting idea. But immich doesn't work as a drop in, the default images collection includes a lot of rubbish so for it to be useful you have to manually tag photos to include with immich

[–] eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's kind of necessary for family members who still need it to be backing up and may take a bit of time to get used to using it. If it's not backing up pics then it won't be useful when they do open it

[–] eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Yep the unreliable background tasks are a major hurdle here

 

I've set up a self hosted photo system with immich, and it works doing automatic backups of photos from the filesystem, eg using termux/cron, although it is a bit flakey. Immich also works for backup, but it's less ideal.

iPhone seems to be a lot harder, backup in immich doesn't work, it seems that iPhones have a complicated was of handling background tasks which make background backups very difficult.

Does anyone know a way of doing any kind of backup automatically, without plugging in a cable and without using iCloud?

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