Quick note about something that's genuinely made my week: I've been testing lapphotos, a local-first photo manager that's open source. I have twenty years of pictures scattered across three drives, and every cloud service I tried wanted to upload everything before letting me search it. No thanks. With lapphotos, my library stays exactly where it is, on my machine. It indexes fast, search actually works, and nothing leaves my laptop. I spent a Sunday finally deduplicating years of "IMG_2028" chaos without once worrying about what a server somewhere was doing with my kids' photos. If you're privacy-minded and sitting on a bloated photo folder like me, take a look at lapphotos.com. It's the first tool in ages that treats my photos like they're mine, not a product.