I can't get bluetooth to reliably airdrop files from one room to the next. I have to do windmills to coax a transfer. No other BT devices in between to mesh.
Please note that moving HQ is not moving the entire company. BofA HQ moved from SF to Charlotte. Musk and Ellison are shopping HQ tax breaks, cheaper labor, and apparently, access to a health care labor and business boomtown (Nashville) after buying Cerner. [0]
I checked photo galleries a while back, with the idea of sharing in a limited way, so that my photos don't end up owned by stock agencies, and I have to hire a small army of lawyers to get them back, or fodder for AI. (see the recent "fair use" of books by buying them, tearing them apart and scanning them. )
The following reviews photo gallery sites, unfortunately, the reviewer owns a site, that ranks #1 on the list. That aside, the article gives an idea what is available, all the way to letting visitors buy prints. I remember an email exchange with Pixieset.
I like free tiers, but never let the photos out of home, except sharing via email or (shrunken) as messages. My mail client (Apple) offers to resize photos if the message gets large.
These may be overkill, so sites like smugmug may suffice. I have been taking photos for over 50 years, non-professionally (so it's fun) and always do a quick "best of batch" sort (I tag the photos) and a quick tune up. The jpegs I get (Nikon) are so good, that's all I need to get great results. But I have raw editing apps loaded up. HTH
The technocrats probably felt that they were in peril when Joe Biden pushed or EO'ed regulation.
I think they are in FAFO mode, learning how they were used and abandoned by Trump, like the people who sat out the election because of the (Gaza) peril they felt from Harris, aided by Russian bots bombarding social media, ignoring the blueprint that was circulated, called Project 2025, a profoundly anti-science and racist volume.
I just read that the CT folks call Project 2025 a Democratic hoax, like pretty much everything else they want to distance themselves from.
Very loud warnings were issued, and people ignored them in their emotional frenzy. Be careful what you wish for. You might get it, and get it, they did, big tech and supporters of what's left of Gaza.
Musk vs Trump is a cautionary tale for Silicon Valley [0]
Story by Michael Moritz
The writer is a longtime Silicon Valley investor, former board member of PayPal and an investor in SpaceX (i.e. a Musk fan)
> While Musk has left Washington with his reputation tarnished and his businesses impaired, the president’s family has inked deals for new hotels and golf courses around the world. Membership fees at Mar-a-Lago, his Floridian sanctuary, ballooned last year. And he is milking the enthusiasm of his supporters with his own controversial memecoin, launched days before his inauguration.
> One word of advice for those in Silicon Valley who followed Musk’s lead and sided with Trump. Leave. Don’t delude yourself that you are working to make crypto a part of global finance, minimising artificial intelligence regulation, helping start-up companies or protecting the interests of Silicon Valley. You have no sway. You are just cannon fodder.
The crypto cohort would be the one area that does seem to have some serious sway.
Trump doesn't care about his free Tesla. Hundreds of millions from meme-coins talks louder. Ditto with new markets for influential financial players to grow into, and a vast new area for VC to cash-in on (the IPO cash-outs greatly benefit from "legitimacy"). Follow the money. Although I do have to circle back to the first point which is that they do seem to have played the game right on many fronts (including threatening to primary politicians/using the stick effectively).
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