Disable Dash Auto Updates

While I understand the switch of Dash’s business model from a perceptual license to a subscription model, my usage and needs do not justify a subscription. Annoyingly the app always updates to the latest subscription version. You can disable this behaviour by selecting tiny checkbox on the update dialog and then skipping the update on the old version.

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How to Set EXIF GPS Coordinates Manually

Usually I use a GPS tracker on my phone when taking pictures so that I can sync up the GPS data later. Every so often I for get to start the tracker and need to manually set the GPS data by hand. The easiest way I found was by using the exiftool. This is a command line tool often considered the swiss army knife of EXIF data. Below is the command on how to set the GPS data on some files. I also added -overwrite_original parameter to not have the tool create a backup file. To actually get the GPS coordinate data you can choose yout favorite online tool.