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Since I am also an avid DSLR photographer, the first decision I made was to use Adobe Lightroom (Classic) as the "single source of truth" to manage all our photos.

This means obviously importing all photos taken via my DSLR into Lightroom, but also syncing all photos taken on our iPhones via the Lightroom Mobile App.

Lightroom Classic keeps all the (compressed) photos in the Adobe cloud for easy sharing and browsing, but also writes them out (unaltered) to a directory on my Local NAS.

This NAS gets automatically backed up via Arq Backup (https://www.arqbackup.com) to an encrypted Amazon S3 bucket. Additionally, once or twice a year I create a versioned copy of the NAS via Carbon Copy Cloner (https://bombich.com/) to an external hard drive. This hard drive is stored offsite somewhere safe.

In a nutshell, for around $12 a month + a NAS + a hard drive, we have all the convenience of the Adobe Lightroom cloud combined with a local copy on the NAS, a cloud copy on S3 (in case Lightroom cloud gets corrupted) and an offsite copy (in case our place and the whole internet burns down :-)).

fudgyon Ask HN: Who's not sucky to work for?

Where have you been working at?

fudgyon A Prototype Original iPod

Loved the original iPod so much that I‘ve re-created it as an app once the iPhone came out: https://github.com/j-lechner/RetroPod

Not sure if it still builds, but it was amazing to study and re-build all those little UX details like accelerating scrolling and timeline scrubbing.

fudgyon Stripe isn’t a platform, it’s a mouse

Hey Edwin,

Think it would be reasonable to also simply acknowledge that good small ideas might eventually become features of the platform:

<< Smaller companies make products that build upon, or fill gaps within, platforms from larger companies. The best of those ideas — ideas that truly would be better “built in”, eventually do get built in. The small innovators need to adapt or die (or get acquired, and become the built-in version) >>

from https://daringfireball.net/2021/05/apple_built_in_advantage

fudgyon Simulating the PIN cracking scene in Terminator 2

While you can get a chip-enabled card reader to accept a magstripe-only transaction by altering the magstripe, the final authorisation decision is with the card issuer.

And the card schemes are mandating the issuers to keep track whether a card was issued with a chip and then reject authorisation attempts with a magstripe that claims "no chip" available.

That being said, in reality there are again and again still issuers who did not implement this and similar security measures [1].

[1] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/is-your-chip-card-secure...