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Video Authoring with Google Photos

Tue, 16 Apr 2019 16:45:00 +0000

I built my first slideshow-video for a family birthday in about four minutes on my phone, sitting in a car park, and it looked genuinely good. That’s the pitch for Google Photos’ video tool in one sentence: it is the fastest way to turn a pile of stills into something with music and motion that you’d actually send to relatives. It is also, quietly, a lock-in machine — the free unlimited storage that once made it a no-brainer ended in June 2021, and the “movie” you assemble lives inside Google’s walls until you export it. So this is two posts in one: how to make the video, and how to keep the source photos somewhere you control.

Unity3D on Arch Linux

Sat, 16 Feb 2019 17:45:00 +0000

The first time I tried to install Unity on Arch Linux, the build failed at ninety per cent because /tmp filled up. Not because the machine was short of disk — it had plenty — but because /tmp was mounted as tmpfs, which lives in RAM, and Unity’s installer is a multi-gigabyte download that wanted to unpack there. That single gotcha is the whole reason this post exists. Unity runs perfectly well on Arch, but the failure modes are unusual enough that the official instructions never quite cover the case you actually hit, and the AUR package changes shape every couple of years. Here is how it works today, why each step matters, and what to do when it breaks.