If the business model collapses, it can lead to shutdowns, running models is expensive and if no one wants to pay the actual costs the party stops. If only a few people are willing/able to pay the high actual costs then scale gets lost as well, keeping prices up high.

Sure the cat is out of the bag and it’s likely there’ll be some form of generative AI in future, but the ecosystem is likely to be very different to the mass-investment loss-driven environment we are currently seeing

It’s probably contributing, they were so obviously scamming the market but trying to force it into the S&P to get exit liquidity, and it probably eroded a lot of whatever trust is left in the market

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

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

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

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

I thought the pope was talking about Defenestration, sorely disappointed

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?

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

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

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

… 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

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

Paying rent for land. Unfortunately it’s been that way since feudalism and the progressive movements over the last few hundred years haven’t managed to break out of it

Yep the unreliable background tasks are a major hurdle here

Yes thanks. Immich would be fine as well based on the description of what these apps do, but the problem seems to be having it run in background.

All these solutions need regular manual intervention, while a backup system needs to be automatic and reliable. From an iPhone the only backup option I can see is through their cloud unfortunately (or potentially through regularly plugging into a cable)

Yes I was trying to find out about time machine related approaches, which could work from my NAS as well (ok it’s actually a rpi). From what I can tell auto backup from a laptop is possible, however the only way apple lets you backup from your phone is if you plug a cable into a computer so iTunes does the backup (and then afterwards goes to the NAS). Direct from phone seems to be blocked

Are you opening it manually? Unfortunately I need to get it working set and forget if possible. And I’m trying to avoid icloud

That is very much the problem here, I would like to set up a set-and-forget system for family members so we can collect photos together easily. But that goes against how apple systems work

Have you tried it yourself? Does it work hands-off in a set and forget way, or do you have to open it for the background tasks to run?