Enable public folder sharing

basically just follow this https://www.howtogeek.com/215400/how-to-turn-your-computer-into-a-dlna-media-server/

in case the link dies, pasting soem screenshots

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then when you use your smart tv, the windows device appears and u can browse thru. works for the samsung tv my family is using.

obviously in the future we will get a generic android tv instead so at least its easier to hack someth and not rely on inbuilt samsung tech

but for now, just works.

Copying from google one to your local

I found batch copying large files via UI is quite buggy. API is probably an option, but too lazy to setup google cloud platform or some horrendous UX, so i just tried out google one UI to batch download as zip file. and surprisingly works ok.

Next step, is to get an honest to goodness cold storage backup option