I haven’t used it much if at all in the past year, but I finally took the last step and deleted it! Sorry if this is low effort I just don’t have anyone I know to share it with.
I have literally everything tied to gmail, no idea how to escape
It’s a slow process. Took me 2 and a half year to completely move away from Gmail. Worth it.
Why was it worth it? What benefits did you gain from the change?
I’m a simple man. Just knowing some entity is not munching my mail data is an enough reason for me.
Congrats dude! 😄 👍 I’m replacing all their service a bit at the time, is nice to see people able to completely switch off.
Is there a viable Photos alternative? I was thinking of setting up a NAS on my RPi but it would need to be for other family members too.
@mjq07
https://stingle.org, https://piwigo.org, and https://immich.app might be worth a look.I used NextCloud, myself.
@Blisterexe @degoogleNext cloud all the way. I run it in my garage and I grab the free Android app from fdroid
Another vote for Immich. It’s a really nice experience on both the web and app.
The Proton Drive app can automatically sync pictures from your phone. The Proton ecosystem as a whole is a good alternative to Google’s.
Ente it you’re looking for a paid service. (For me, photos are too important to self-host.) They’re end-to-end encrypted and both server and clients are open source.
I second Ente, absolutely awesome products and great Devs always listening to feedback from community. Unlike other services and products, absolutely everything is open source to 🙌
too important to self-host
For me it’s the other way round. My photos are too important to trust any corporation - no matter how trustworthy they say they are.
Do you do any hosting on the cloud? Thinking of cases like a fire or flood or something
No I follow the 3-2-1 rule which states that you should have 3 copies in 2 locations where 1 of them is remote.
In my case, the remote part is two external SSDs where I leave one with my parents and the other one plugged into my NAS which does automatic daily backups. When my parents come I swap them around.
TIL, thanks!
I am still uploading to Google Photos currently, but have setup a backup of my photos once a week using SMBSync2 on Android, to my Raspberry Pi NAS. I have two external hard drives connected to my pc, so when I login to my pc there are two automated backups that happen to copy anything newly added to the nas to the two hard drives.
