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Google photos on ios is literally a hostage situation. Remove key functionalities like copying an image or editing an image unless you give them full unrestricted access to your entire photo library. (The holy grail of surveillance capitalism data). Data extortion masquerading as a service.

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    • ThunderLegend@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      Yeah, I’ve set up an Immich server last week using an old spare 250gb HDD and transfered my google photos to it…so far so good. I had been using nextcloud for a year to new pictures but the UI is not that great and I missed my old photos. Immich is great! Oh I’m also using lineage…with microg, a pihole and some obter awesome self hosting programs

      • gigachad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        13 hours ago

        I am running Syncthing between my devices, which is enough for me. I wondered if I should in a Synology, but now that they went full enshittification that’s not a question anymore.

      • harsh3466@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        20 hours ago

        I’m running gos on a pixel and rolling my own cloud with nextcloud on my server. Works great.

        • tehmics@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          20 hours ago

          I’ll look into nextcloud. What kind of hardware are you running it on? Any type of off-site backups?

          • harsh3466@lemmy.mlEnglish
            21·
            20 hours ago

            I’m running it on a nearly decade old PC I used to use for windows and gaming back in the day. Before I ran it on the PC I ran it for several years on a raspberry pi 4 (8GB).

            For offsite, I roll my own by keeping an (encrypted) hard drive stashed in my desk at work. I update it every couple weeks or so, which is fine for me.

            Edit to add the PC is now running Ubuntu server, and in addition to nextcloud I run like 15 or so other services for myself and my family like

            Navidrome (rips of all my old CDs and new ones I buy) Jellyfin (rips of all our DVDs) Radicale (caldav for calendar. Could do this with nextcloud but I wasn’t running it for a bit there) Joplin server for my notes Mealie for our recipes Forgejo, my private gitforge

            There’s more but I can’t think of them.

            • tehmics@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              19 hours ago

              Man those are some great name drops, thank you. I literally have an outlined plan to write my own Mealie equivalent because I couldn’t find anything that fit without selling me some bs service

              By the way, where do you go to find these types of things anymore? Web search has been completely fubar for years

          • atticus88th@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            19 hours ago

            I guess if I won the lottery and didn’t have a job I could spend all that time and money to maintain all that shit.

            • harsh3466@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              19 hours ago

              I have a full time job and am working poor like many. I’m hosting all this on a decade old PC that I built back in the day. I find the time I spend on deploying and maintainig my services very rewarding, but its not for everyone, and that’s fine.

          • harsh3466@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            19 hours ago

            I’ve been at it for years. It takes time and effort and learning to do, and I’ll be the first to help people who post questions here to Lemmy for self hosting.

            FOSS is a community like any other with good and bad apples in it. You can learn a ton from the community and take control of your own data if you want to.

            I find it very rewarding and fun, but if you expect me to write a full how to every time I mention that I self host that’s a little crazy. I’ll happily answer anyone’s questions and share my knowledge but I’m not just gonna dump six-ish years of my notes in a comment.