 If you enjoy my tutorials and would like to see more, please think about contributing to my Patreon account at patreon.com forward slash metalx1000. Hello, I'm Christopher Acapinti, filmsbychrist.com. This is Gabe once again joining me. Now last time Gabe was here we were talking about your first experiences with Ubuntu and you were recently telling me about how, as we talked about in the last interview, you use your phone mostly, you don't even use a laptop much, so even though you've been using Linux for years, you haven't really gotten into too much, but your wife ends up using the laptop more than you do. Correct. And she's not always happy that you're running Linux. No. I mean you do do a boot with Windows 7. Yes. But you were telling me that mainly it's, she's used to, it's not that she can't use other software, but she's used to certain software. Give a few examples of what she uses that. She uses the laptop primarily to organize her pictures and photos and she got used to using the Google Picasso program with the facial recognition in particular. She does not like. She hates it. Go ahead, say it. The interface that I was using with the Ubuntu Linux, the Unity interface in particular. Years ago she used the Mint and she was okay with that. That's going to be my suggestion. She just, growing up in different culture, she's from South America, Windows was all there was. In most countries. In most countries including here. It's changing with some countries. She wanted something that she was used to and she studied in school and wanted it just to work so she'd go on and not have to think too much and see her pictures. Now, you're saying that you did get it up and running on Linux, but you had to have mine installed. Correct. And I haven't used the software in a couple of years. There was at one point it was available in the repositories for Ubuntu and other distributions. Although, and I was playing with it even though proprietary software, I kind of liked it. I was using it and then I realized when I was installing it that it wasn't installing wine, but it was actually installing some of the wine library. So, even though they had to release for Linux, it was still actually the Windows version just running on Linux, just kind of seamlessly in a way. So, my suggestion to your wife is to get over it and try some other pieces off. Yes. Well, there's a lot of photo managing software on Linux. I don't necessarily think there's really any, I mean, do facial recognition detection, but not face recognition. It was detection. Right. Oh, it's detection at recognition. Let's give me explain the difference. Sure. I'll explain the difference. Like we have a camera recording right now. Yes. It can go, there's a face here. There's a face there. Recognition then. Yeah. That's detection. Face recognition goes, this is Gabe, which normally needs a number of photos to do, which is very hard to get in software unless you have a bunch of pictures of Gabe. You tag a bunch of them, then it starts learning, although I've heard recently that Facebook has acquired some facial recognition software that is like 96.5 accurate, where humans are 97% accurate. It's almost as accurate as human with just like one or two photos, which is not yet what Facebook is using on their website, but they acquired that software and they're going to implement it some way down the future. But that's why as far as facial recognition is more commonly done online, like with Facebook and Google Plus, because you already have all your pictures and you tag, so it has a big database to look from and go, that's Gabe. And it still messes up. It still sees my wife's sister and tags her. Sometimes it tags my one and a half year old daughter as some friend of mine. I'm like, what? Which it's all based on space between your eyes and your mouth and your nose, not actually how you look. But it still works fairly well. So my recommendation would be to use what used to be called Google Picasso online. Web Picasso is now just integrated with Google Plus, which is where one of the places I back up all my photos. When it comes to media, stuff that can't be replaced, home photos and videos. I've said this a number of times. I have my Pogo plug, which I've installed Debian on, which I have a local web interface running Apache within my local network. And then remotely I can SSH in. And anytime I have new pictures or videos, I automatically back up the originals to my Pogo plug. And then I have like three YouTube accounts under different names. I have a daily motion account, a Flickr account and a Vimeo account. And everything gets back up to at least three of those places, if not more. So if one account gets canceled or they all, it's very hard. And then my Pogo plug is backed up to a CD or DVD or sometimes Blu-ray and then put in a fireproof safe. So multiple. I have just lost so many pictures back in high school. I was one of the first people to have a digital camera. And I was probably the first person in my town to own a CD burner. I worked at Circuit City at the time, which no longer exists. It's like a Best Buy type place. And at that time you can order CD burners out of a magazine, but you couldn't get them in stores. And the guys in the computer department kept telling me, oh, we're going to get some. We're going to get some. And every day I'd go to work and be like, has it come in yet? And one day I went in, had come in that morning. The store was not open yet. And I bought the only one we had. It was $400. Oh, over $400. Well, before my discount, it cost me like $350 after my employee discount. And it was a two-speed burner. So it took 40 minutes to burn just one regular CD. And I backed up most of my photos to there. But CDs end up getting scratched. I have a whole book full of them. Some of them I can get pictures off and some of them I put in. It spins. I've tried different readers because some drives read better than others. I just have lost so many pictures over the years that I don't want that to happen anymore. And storage is so cheap now, both buying yourself a hard drive and it's free online. Most people use Dropbox. I've never used Dropbox. I created an account because someone was asking me a question about it once. Never used it. I could. That would be just one more place. I mean, five gig limit is kind of minimal when you're talking about videos. With the YouTube accounts, I have unlimited. I think with Vimeo and Daily Motion, they limit me the weekly uploads. But I have unlimited. With Google Plus, which was Picasso. I know what kind of started with Google Picasso and I've moved on now. It's part of your, when you have a Google account, they give you one terabyte now. Which they keep updating every couple of years. So I've never even composed it in my limit. But that's not even really the limit. The limit is pretty much unlimited because it's a terabyte for original size. So when I upload a photo to Google Plus, it stores it for me at the original resolution, whatever it is. Up to that one terabyte. Once I hit that one terabyte, then it starts scaling it down to, I think, 2048 pixels on the longest size. Which is still, I mean, unless you're going higher than 8 by 10, really isn't going to make a difference. And at least I still have that photo, you know? But it's just so easy. I don't even, I don't trust automated backups. My phone automatically backs up. Other than that, I just plug in my SD card, edit the video if I need to. I drag it to YouTube, drag it to all these things. Now my internet stops working for like an hour while everything's uploaded. Yes. But other than that, really no inconvenience. It's just drag and drop it all and walk away, go watch a TV show, come back and it's all backed up. And I can share it. I have them, some marked private. Most of them I leave public. In case I lose my password, I can still download them off YouTube. Like on my regular YouTube account, I make them private because my viewers don't want to watch all my home videos. But I have another account that they're all under, which is public. They may be even more curious than you think. Well, it's like, well, I don't care if people see it. I just don't want to, I don't want people to unsubscribe because I'm posting all these videos of my daughter. I wouldn't put any, I wouldn't back anything up online that would be, I'd consider private. If it's private, it goes on my Pogo plug and I just hope that I don't lose my Pogo plug. You know? And maybe to a CD. I don't put anything online, any photos or videos that I don't care if anybody sees them. So my advice to her would be try using the web interface, but it's still going to be different than what she's used to. But at least everything's still backed up. But it does do the facial recognition. It's easy to share and if the computer dies, it's all backed up online. And you can always use Google Takeout. Are you familiar with Google Takeout? No. Okay. Google Takeout, it'll bring you to a Google Takeout page. And it will list everything, like if you have a Google Acosta or a YouTube account. And you check your emails, your chats. Facebook has the same thing if you go into the settings. You check what you want. It will create a zip file for you of all the original files. And you can download, and I used to do that once a year. I still do with my documents and stuff because I back up stuff to Google Docs. Once again, nothing private, mostly programming notes. Just because it's so easy to hop online and search through them. But at any point, I can download all that stuff and use it on my computer or upload it to another service. Like Facebook, all your chats. I think it's an XML format or something that downloads it as. And so you can definitely utilize again with other services or at least search through it and make your own backup. And so although a lot of people worry about Google knowing so much, I don't care if they know about you as long as I have control of my own data. And so now it's like if tomorrow they said, we're doing this and I go, I don't agree with that. I don't want to use Google anymore. I can pull all my stuff or I already hopefully already have it mostly pulled off. I'm just not giving them anything I don't already have that I can't get back. Again, I've said a number of times. The only real thing I use on my computer that I feel like I'm kind of trapped in because like I have flash installed. I'm not saying I'm perfect. I have some proprietary Nvidia drivers. I have flash installed some proprietary codecs. But I don't feel like I'm really dependent on any of those. The only thing I really am dependent on is I use Google voice. Yes. So everyone knows that phone number. Okay. Sorry about that SD card got full on the camera. So I was talking about Google voice and how I feel kind of dependent on it. I mean, like I said, I could always leave it. I could use open source software, but then have to either set my own server or use someone else's service that they're going to charge for. So in this case, I'm opting to use some proprietary software for a cost-free service. And I do feel locked in, which is exactly why you're not supposed to do that. So it's not the end of the world. Again, if they were to cancel service, I think the phone number still mine just like a cell phone. I could port it to a cell phone. I would lose the features of it, but I would still be able to take that number with me. So kind of started off on one subject and I kind of brought us off on another, which is what I tend to do. But again, I thank you for coming Gabe. I thank you for watching. Appreciate it. Please visit FilmsByChris.com. That's Chris with the K. There should be a link in the description to the site. And I hope that you have a great day.