All those “experts” lecturing you and they don’t even know about man in the middle attacks.

They don’t know that there are active bots searching for HTTP addresses to inject risky code or redirect to malicious sites.

You providing some feedback which may help OP is seen as criticism.

They had me u til “your dad installs it”

Removing the word “windows” in the last frame and also “your dad installs it for your dumb mom” to “your parents install a server. Maybe your mom does it or your dad does it. Maybe you can also help!”

Teaching “children” that technical tasks are for dady to do is so cringe.

Those two little changes and it becomes a readable story.

Once you implement Authentication/Authorization it’s fairly simple to add a new function.

I think here, the problem is not the complexity of the task, but the developer’s prioritization based on all the backlogged features.

Still, users can do this on their own. Directly on the folder, autorotating all pictures using wildcards.

You can start with what you can. What can provide the most value and iteratively improve from there.

Sometimes as a developer or even product manager, you don’t know what feature complete really means until people start using it.

Oh, by the way: https://imagemagick.org/script/formats.php

I’m just learning about the software but all the tasks you listed (crop, rotate and adjust), can be done easily with imagemagick simple one-liners.

For example: Convert in.jpg -rotate out.jpg

Or

Using the auto-orient option or using jhead.

Why is it so hard for this app to implement it?

I don’t think it’s just you. Like it wasn’t just one person thinking computers would make us dumb or the automobile making us lazy. I’m betting that someone somewhere thought that cooking food on the fire would make us weaker.

Technology has that ability to generate opposition from status quo.

And as with any technology, there are good uses, bad uses and frivolous uses.

Remember the awful nonsense web pages of the early 90’s?

I think AI will make the life’s of some of us easier. But I also think it will continue widening the digital divide.

The biggest concern is that, by nature, AI needs massive amounts of power which can only be paid by people with big resources and those people are training it. AI has the trainer’s bias.

However, end consumer AI is the tip of the iceberg. AI will succeed when we don’t even realize it’s there.