Tech’s broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap::Some tech is getting pricier and looking a lot like the older services it was supposed to beat. From video streaming to ride-hailing and cloud computing.

  • kalleboo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I have nearly 2 TB of storage used by iCloud Photo Library and it’s mostly just photos and videos of my kids and travel photos taken on my iPhone, I don’t feel too far removed from the average person…

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      1 year ago

      Thats alot of photos/videos to be fair.

      Can i ask?

      When do you look at/watch them?

      I have the basic google drive expansion the 100gb one and i feel like it would take hour/days to go through ever photo/video i have on there and its not even clost to full. I only just exceeded the 15gb limit.

      My wife has a few more than 15gb and uses a physical drive to backup. I would dread to think how long it would take to view everything on it.

      2TB sounds out of the ordi.ary to me.

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        1 year ago

        When do you look at/watch them?

        Not OP, but same situation. I usually don’t, but my mother who lives far from us does every day. We take a lot of photos and videos, she gets to watch them and she’s up to speed on our kids’ lives, can talk to them about stuff they did today, etc. We feel like it lets her be a part of their lives in a way.

        Then you have that Google Photos feature where you get automatically created mini albums like “they grow up so fast” or “now vs then”, it will compile a couple of photos from 7, 6, 5, … Years ago and we watch those religiously, often coming back to the particular event from which some photo is. We can spend an entire evening going through older photos like that.

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          1 year ago

          My dog died recently, and those freaking memory reels keep messing up my day. I can’t not look at them, and when I do, I’m in tears after a minute.

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            1 year ago

            We had a tragic car accident and kept getting those “memories” every year until I found out how to omit them.

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              1 year ago

              That sucks, sorry for your loss man. Being reminded of that kind of shit is waaaay worse than what I’m whining about, and mine is bad enough.

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          1 year ago

          As a side note, as much as I enjoy the odd “then and now” collage, or “this time 3 years ago” album, I really miss those old “auto awesome” videos Google photos used to make, with a mix of video and stills set to music. Don’t know why they stopped doing them but they were great.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah I do. Sometimes go through travel albums, but there’s also a lot of “hmm when did we go ?” or “oh, you’re going , we went there before, you have to check out this thing” and spur of the moment lookups of random things

        One thing is that 4K video takes up A LOT of space.

        I could probably reduce the storage used if I went through everything and delete duplicates but that would take weeks.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe try this then, I’ve heard good things about them. $7/mo for unlimited storage.

      https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-backup/personal

      Actually a bit confused by their pricing structure, I think it’s $0.005/gb, I could be wrong. So 2tb would be like $20/mo ($10 base + $10 for 2000gb), still pretty cheap.

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          1 year ago

          It also comes at a fraction of the price. If you complain about price, then this is your solution.