It seems that anybody mentioning Telegram is downvoted, but I'm gonna try anyway just to add a simple fact: I just looked up the app in my task manager, while being used, the Telegram app is using 24 mb of ram.
Telegram has its own faults and issues, but the native Windows app is incredibly good and fast.
I would say the opposite. Ente has one huge advantage and that it is e2ee so it's a must if you are hosting someone else photos. But if you are planning to run something on your server/NAS for yourself then Immich has many advantages (that often relate to the e2ee). For example... your files are still files on the disk so less worry about something unrecoverably breaking. And you can add external locations. With Ente it is just about backing up your phone photos. Immich works pretty well as camera photo organizer.
Does it have a mobile app that backs up the photos while in the background and can essentially be "forgotten"? That's pretty much what I need for my family: their photos need to get to my server magically.
I'm also a very happy Ente user. I use Garage for its S3-like storage, with one of the nodes running on my local network (LAN). My local DNS (CoreDNS) is also configured to use this local node for the domain, which makes everything very fast.
I got mine in my 30's too. The first week I thought I was going crazy, and this was the end of my life. I was shocked, I couldn't go to work for a whole week.
I then saw a doctor who said to me: "Man, I've got tinnitus since 20 years and I barely hear it anymore. The more you accept it, the more it'll fade."
A decade later, my own experience is exactly this. I accepted it as one of the body malfunctions that comes with age for everybody. I barely hear it anymore except in extremely low noise situations and it doesn't bother me at all.
I've always been someone who hears high pitched noises that "normal" people don't. I'm also in my 30s, and I'm sure those "teenage alarms" in Japan would work on me. I was the one who would walk up to a CRT and turn it off when everyone else thought it already was.
What helped me accept (and ignore) tinnitus was realizing that I had already grown accustomed to tolerating that sound indoors. When's it's something you have no agency over (like "it's an old house and the wires just make that sound sometimes"), you learn it's part of the environment.
Accepting it as part of the environment gets you past the "OMG my body is ruined forever" anxieties and back to normal life.
This is so relatable, though it has a strange downside. I've had tinnitus for as long as I can remember and always thought I was some superhuman child who could hear electricity. Didn't actually realize it was tinnitus until I heard it at the top of a mountain I was hiking in remote New Mexico a few years ago. I probably got it from chronic sinusitis as a child, but I'm still not sure what to make of it.
That's actually not tinnitus but (from what I've been told) cochloreal hyperacusis, another form of hearing damage.
I always have that, but I only hear a random high pitched tinnitus noise in one ear, rising and falling in volume for max 10 seconds, about once every few months.
I can still hear old CRTs in my forties, although it's less maddening now. They had those mosquito devices, that are intended to repel kids, for a while at a shopping mall near me. They repelled me very effectively as well.
A friend once thought it was funny to try the 15.000Hz silent ringtone on me, although I had told him not to. It made me react without conscious input and I nearly broke his phone.
> I always have that, but I only hear a random high pitched tinnitus noise in one ear, rising and falling in volume for max 10 seconds, about once every few months.
Holy crap! I'm not alone! And now I have a name for it. They've always freaked me out and I don't even know how to describe it to people.
Funny I could hear CRTs too. In teens could hear faint high pitched noise in extremely quiet outdoor settings. Bad tinnitus 15 years later. Slowly reduced and I’m less conscious of it now.
I'm 73, had tinnitus all my life, I am used to it. Some days it seems louder than others. When I was 17-18 I worked as a stock boy at a JC Penney store. I used to hear this high pitched squeal near the front entrance. I mentioned it to my compatriots who responded "What squeal?" I always found a way to avoid the front entrance on my rounds. So yeah, I get the alarms
I heard older TVs being turned on and off as well as CRT monitors. Now, its that very range I 'hear' all the time. Part of me wonders if it was sensitivity to that spectrum that damaged my hearing when I was around multiple CRTs so much.
I have known people that have it much worse than I face daily.
I have a (completely unscientific) theory that my tinnitus is a result of early exposure to CRT TV's and my brain trying to compensate for the noise. The reason I say that is that it's roughly in the same frequency band as the PAL horizontal refresh. It's been with me basically my whole life, since long before any real hearing damage would have set in anyway - I remember asking friends when I was 9 or 10 whether they could hear it too. It wouldn't surprise me if there was a window of opportunity when the brain is still plastic for these kind of "adaptations" to set in place.
Almost the exact thing to me, 20+ years of tinnitus which sits calmly in the background most of the time except when I read the word tinnitus, or I'm feeling anxious for some reason: when I can't fall asleep when I need a good rest, life stresses, and those moments when a different pitch shows up in one ear and louder. In those occasions I can clearly hear the tone of mine.
It's mildly annoying but I've definitely learnt to live with it pretty ok.
Haha, its funny you say that because I've been reading a novel at the moment where the main character has debilitating tinnitus, and every time the author describes it, I can hear my own.
Completely agree. I've had some light/moderate floaters in my left eye which were very noticeable under a white screen, clean walls, or full bright sky in the evening. It came pretty sure because of a very stressful period at 27.
Here I am, 31. I have to look for them really really hard to see if they are still there. Only when I have a streak of stressful days and bad night sleep, they will be visible again. It comes without saying that I had to change my life in many, many aspects, not only due to these floaters. A much calmer life, better food, gym, financial security, better friends and people around me, and cultivate a spiritual being in some sense. The mind can be shaped in many many ways it's fascinating.
Do check your eye pressure regularly -- if high, you have a higher chance of detached retina, and in that case more floaters all of a sudden warrant an immediate drive to the ER. This can apparently happen when youi fall or hit yhour head. Once that happens, up only have so much time to reattach the retina before it dies off. According to my eye doctor.
[Of course this is not be used as medical advice, as your LLM for that ;)]
my floaters showed up when i was 14- it was kinda shocking and scary at the time to be a freshman in high school and suddenly there were massive sensory disturbances in my eyes. ophthalmologists would just say to ignore them. apparently there's a pretty crazy surgery where they remove all the vitreous fluid from your eyeballs, but instead i decided to follow the ophthalmologist advice and they pretty much stopped bothering me.
tinnitus seems similar. maybe in the future there could be some kind of functionally guided high intensity focused ultrasound ablation procedure that could dull out some of the malfunctioning percept, but for now probably the best bet is to ignore it.
on a related note in interesting auditory neurotechnology, vestibular implants seem pretty cool!
We have a projector instead of TV in the living room, and there is a small outlet inside the projection area, top right corner. We can go months without realizing/remembering it's there, until it accidentally matches a shadow or object in a scene... the brain just deletes it.
I also thought I would go crazy when mine started after some ear infections in my 20s. It's gotten a lot worse over time but I mostly only notice if I think about it, and when I'm laying down to sleep, and when I wake up (it seems so strong). I've slept with white noise all my life, and without that I the tinnitus would definitely disturb my sleep.
I've had tinnitus since... At least my early 20s. Or that's the first time I found out about the concept. Until that point I assumed it's background noises everyone experiences.
I only notice it when it changes abruptly (very rare), but otherwise I just tune it out
I have had it since I was a teenager like 30 years ago. Honestly, I do not notice it unless someone points it out. Yes it is always there but there is nothing I can do about it so I don't worry about it.
Hello, thank you very much for your very insightful comment!
The cookie theft is also IMHO the most probable scenario. The malicious extension is the only thing that make sense to me.
log out all devices: done
rotate password and 2FA: done
switch to a hardware key/WebAuthn: not done yet
audit browser extensions: done (I'm using only what I think are very "secure" ones: Bypass Paywalls Clean, Control Panel for Twitter , Correcteur d'orthographe et reformulateur — LanguageTool , Google Images Restored, I still don't care about cookies, Keepa - Amazon Price Tracker, Reddit Enhancement Suite, SingleFile , uBlock Origin , Voir image (https://github.com/bijij/ViewImage)
scan the box: done
revoke any third‑party app access tied to Reddit: there are none
Even if none of these extensions were malicious, they might have some vulnerability that would allow and attacker to get your cookie? Or the developers of those might have unknowingly been phished like what happened last December.
Sorry for just offering speculation, hopefully you figure it out. Even if it was "only" a Reddit account, the feeling of not knowing how it happened and if other things are at risk must be horrible.
https://crxplorer.com/ might help you to inspect your extensions a bit deeper if you are interested and have the knowledge.
And finally, just a comment, passkeys/webauthn/fido keys would not protect against a session cookie theft. They only prevent the login stage from being phished.
I've just had my Amazon account hacked with an order of a gift card. I saw it immediately so I was able to request a refund, change passwords, add 2fa, remove any payment info.
This is probably linked, I still don't understand how this is possible...
My account have been re-enabled a few hours ago. No reason were given nor even a message. It just works again. Maybe it'll be blocked again tomorrow, I have no idea what happened...
