Chinese New Year celebrations run from Feb 17 to March 3, so this is officially your sign to enjoy some Chinese food this week!! 🧧🥢
This Chinese takeout-inspired Kung Pao Tofu is saucy, a little spicy, packed with veggies, and comes together faster than delivery would! Perfect for weeknights or meal prep!
Migrating to kDrive from Flickr, Apple and Google Photo Clouds
Reading Time: 4 minutesAs I write this my consolidated photo album is being uploaded to kDrive, to serve as an offsite backup but the journey to this point took about two weeks, due in part to experimentation and learning to use various tools.
Tools I used
Work Flow
The first step is to request your data from Google Photos via the Google Takeout Tool, the Flickr Export tool for flickr, and to download all your photos locally from Apple Photos before disconnecting the local library from iCloud. Disconnecting Photos from iCloud gives you 30 days to realise you made a terrible mistake and fix it.
Export and organise
The next step is to unzip the Google Taekout files in one place, and the flickr export in another place. You want to keep the tree structure created by the zips for the next part.
Exiftool
Exiftools is a command line tool. Google Takeout and Flickr Export may detach metadata from your photos and add them to json files. Exiftools writes the exif data back into your photo files. If you ask Gemini or other AI solution for help it will provide you with the command you need to use. Request a dry run, and get the dry run to write to a text file to double check that it does what you expect.
Keep the zip files as they are. If you make a mistake it's good to have them on hand. Downloading 50 GB files from Google Takeout takes time.
With Flickr it's even more critical because Flickr generates 2gb files. I created a script to automatically download my 168 files.
Once you are happy that exiftool is behaving as expected you can run the command for real. Both of these steps take time so let them run in the background.
Google Takeout
Google takeout generates albums in three key ways, by individual names if you used face recognition, event name if you created an album, and by year, automatically. You will have two to three copies of some photos. In some directories you will only find json files.
When exiftool has run you can backup or delete the json files. If you have the zip files, then you're safe.
Flickr
When I expanded the Flickr zips it created a monoolithic directory with all the photos. I ran exiftools to marry json data with the photos.
Apple Photos
If you want to extract photos from Apple Photos quickly the quickest solution is to right click, show package contents, navigate to originals, and copy photos to another directory. You will need to use exiftool to create a directory where they are sorted by year, month day, and then you can run jdupe and add them to your main library.
Looking for Duplicates and Creating Chronological Libraries
With the data added by Exiftool we can now organise the photos chronologically. The issue is that we have event photos in albums, and the same event photos in the year folder. That's where jdupe comes in. It allows us to automatically compare photos within a directory before removing the duplicate copies.
Once this is done we can organise all the photos chronologically. This makes comparing photos much easier. It also adds a human accessible way of organising photos by year, month and day.
We repeat this step for Google Takeout and Flickr so that we end up with two clean chronological libraries.
The next step is to run jdupe again. This time we're comparing Flickr to Google Photos. The reason for this is that in an ideal world we have a perfect mirror, with both libraries being complete. In reality we might have interrupted payment to flickr, or Google photos so we have gaps. That's why we look for duplicates, before merging unique photos into our main photo library.
Tools such as rsync will help you merge the two libraries into the main library, as well as backup the clean library to a second hard drive on an external hard drive or on another device.
The kDrive migration
If you have not already done so, install the kDrive app and log in. Open the app and navigate to your library's folder and tell kdrive to sync the folder. It will then start copying the data to your cloud. Now you wait for it to be done.
Cleanup and Looking Forward
Once the main library is synced to kDrive I can delete two photos folders from kDrive and my local machine. I can tell kDrive on my phone to sync to the new library folder on kDrive.
That Synching Feeling
For now:
Photoprism and Immich Watching
Both Photoprism and Immich allow you to watch an import folder(photoprism) or external library (immich). If you set the main library as a watch folder then new photos uploaded to kdrive will be added to the main library, and photoprism and Immich will add them to their own libraries. Unselect the "move" option to keep the chronological library intact.
And Finally
With jdupe, exiftool and rsync you can go from having three photo libraries wittled down to just one. You can then tell kdrive desktop to watch and sync that folder. You can use rsync to mirror the library to two or three other drives and filesystems. I have APFS, APFS (case sensitive) and ext4. I also have an offsite backup via kDrive.
#Apple #exiftool #Google #infomaniak #jdupe #kdrive #photos #rsync #takeout
This is funny. #microsoft version of Google’s #Takeout requires clicking and scrolling through menus left and right, and then takes up to 30 days “compliant with GDPR”…. How can we make it as difficult as possible within the limits of the law?
The chimichanga was a layer of shredded cheese on top, not much to photograph. But they love mozzarella, so I chose a fried stick for my freebie.
Los Munchies - yummy dipping sauces. Curious about their plantain sandwich…
It's Dominican! They have Hotdogs Dominicano. Their Salchipapa is sausage, not hot dog, and fries.
#NYC #LosMunchies #new #restaurant #show #support #takeout #midtown #Manhattan #PortAuthority
New neighbor alert! Let’s welcome them *Los Munchies* had to try for the name alone.
They’re 9th just south of 42nd on your way to Port Authority, next to the replacement Philly cheesesteak place.
Hot dogs, empanadas, burgers, tacos, & lots of plantain choices.
I got a chimichanga mixta (chicken-pork), & they gave me a cheese stick cuz it took forever.
The dipping sauces reminded me of a Peruvian place; menu in next post.
#NYC #PortAuthority #midtown #Manhattan #new #takeout #restaurant
8 Toronto restaurants offering picnics to go
Parks are free real estate when it comes to social distancing, and many restaurants have seized on their proximity to green spaces by putting together picnic baskets that can be taken to-go. Here’s …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Italianpicnicfood #Italia #Italian #italianpicnicfood #italianpicnicrecipes #italiano #italy #picnicfood #picnicrecipes #picnics #takeout
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2497670/8-toronto-restaurants-offering-picnics-to-go/
Asking my network here - anyone here that want to have a migration tool that goes from Google services to MailCow + Nextcloud?
Es ist sehr empfehlenswert, sich bei #google #takeout anzuschauen, in welchen Diensten Google alles Daten speichert. Manches hat bei mir ein "ach, guck, sowas bietet google auch an" getriggert, manches ein "oh, das hätte ich vergessen"... Z.B. die Ablösung von #Fitbit ist sicher nicht das primäre Ziel, aber wird bei einer Neuanschaffung vielleicht relevant. #DUT
🚀 Wow, who would've thought that the hottest news of the century involves Redditors getting duped by an AI food delivery scam? 🍕🤖 Clearly, nothing says peak human achievement like a bunch of keyboard warriors learning they've been ordering their "authentic" #takeout from Skynet's little brother. 🙄🎉
https://www.theverge.com/news/855328/viral-reddit-delivery-app-ai-scam #RedditScam #AIFoodDelivery #Skynet #Fail #HumanAchievement #HackerNews #ngated
Had a takeaway delivered last night from a burger joint I'd not heard of previously.
The burger & fries weren't as hot as they could have been, but this was probably due to the delivery guy (on a bicycle apparently) doing another drop before mine.
My main conclusion, after trying a handful of different establishments, is that a burger is a burger is a burger.
They all use 'smash patties', the extras (cheese etc.) is mostly the same. The real difference, weirdly, comes in the fries, how they're seasoned etc.
My conclusion is that I should order from my local burger place (literally yards down the road) where I'll get roughly the same as all the other vendors, and due to it's proximity, it'll arrive hotter.
感觉送外卖的小哥素质极高
他电话打不通居然人不走就一直在门口等着我出来拿
等了十多分钟 二十分钟
然后看我出来腼腆地问我是不是点了永和大王的外卖
他看我填的地址感觉找不到地方
#takeout
Kiddo: how do you buy Chinese food?
Spouse: we ordrered it online
Kiddo: ...
Kiddo: from China???
“ #Households now spend almost as much on #restaurants, #takeout and #delivery as on groceries eaten at home.” - #TorstenSlok, chief #economist, Apollo Global Management
Yoooo... Tried Chick-Fil-A (Canada). I had really low expectations. Like how can you base your entire personality around a plain breaded chicken sandwich?
But the 'spicy' deluxe is actually spicy. I was surprised. Probably not worth waiting forever in their crazy line-ups... But on par with Wendy's Spicy Chicken Sandwich.
And yes I'm aware that they financially support anti-LGBTQ organizations and is doing away with their diversity hiring initiatives... Maybe slightly different on this side of the border tho?
I saw this for the first time in I want to say late 2011. I had been wanting to watch it again for years but could never find a platform, and finally I found that it was available for rent on Apple TV so I went ahead and purchased.
This is indie cinema in the purest sense - you could almost mistake this for a documentary film it is so intimate. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Out_(2004_film) #TakeOut #Movies #IndependentCinema #Art #Somber
New McDonald’s Spicy McVeggie sandwich is propper spicy.
Like not white people spicy… it’s brown people spicy. Ya know? 😬😂
The new review for that Tubi original, Takeout, is up. It’s a fucking mess, but a decent one. Don't go in expecting art, just expect a bloody, greasy mess. My verdict? A solid 5.0/10. Read the full autopsy on horrorfacts.com/takeout-2025... . #Takeout #Tubi #Horror #Reviews
Takeout (2025) Tubi Original R...
