Replacing Lightroom

Posted on Sat 01 February 2025 in sysadmin • Tagged with photography, linux

We've been using Adobe Lightroom for the last 12 years to manage our family pictures. I have enjoyed using it, but lately am getting more and more annoyed with Adobe's practices. First there was the push to the cloud with the CC-series of their products. And although you can still …


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Backups

Posted on Wed 04 May 2022 in sysadmin

Recently I was rethinking my off-site backup strategy. Ever since Amazon AWS launched their Glacier Deep Archive storage tier, it looked really interesting for backup use-cases. For starters, it's super cheap to keep your bytes around: $1.01376/TiB/month in most regions as of this writing. I haven't found …


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