What's your budget?

You can still geht really good deals on older used mini pcs

The more offensive part is, Google Photos is not only the default image viewer on (Google's) Android, but (Google's) Camera app will only open pictures in it too. So it's cloud crap that's also literally programmed into a lot of people's cameras.

Unless you deny network permission for Photos, which I highly recommend.

I never activated cloud storage for Google Photos. Whenever I open it for some reason, it complains about it. I need something non-shittified to go through my gallery, just haven't looked for it very much yet.

What are you saying? I have a samsung and nothing is backed up to google drive. In fact i just checked after reading the article. Is there another place they backup or are you talking about the backup?

it backups the whole phone more or less if one chooses to, if there is alternative to it, i dont have a PIXEL, im using a oneplus. to backup the whole phone and redownload everything?

But I was told to "shake it off" by the writers of ancient lore...

Outkast lied to us??

Immich-frame has been on my todo list for a while. Need to get on that.

I've written a python script that fetches a random image from an immich album using its API, every 30 seconds and sets it as my media pc (Ubuntu) wallpaper. Serves as a frame when no windows are open. Recently updated the code to fetch images only when the desktop has mouse focus, to save unnecessary HDD reads when I'm watching something.

It was my first ever Docker app, and it was brain dead easy.

Backblaze B2 is about $7 a month per TB.

Almost every major backup solution natively supports S3 compatible storage.

Actually only DSLRs use mirrors. Every other camera can see you Nightwalker

Say, if phones started creating a 3d map everywhere they went, and you obviously disable it. There will, at some point, be someone who enters your house and unwittingly map it out.

This isn't about personal resistance but the futility of it as the general populace neither cares, knows or put any thought into it.

I use opt out strings in my SSID, blurred the house on gmaps, etc. Last year noticed some random person put it on mapillary, there's other services that require other optout strings. That's just scratching the surface.

Things are happening that I don't even know about, let alone respond to them.

Yeah, but at least it'll all be outdated and nothing new is added. And hey, maybe in the future we could get laws that force them to delete anything older than a certain date. Would leaving them there be any better?

Like the other comment said, I did a Google takeout of my photos, then used immich-go to transfer them. Was pretty painless, got it done in a few hours, probs less if I was less dummy.

Here's the guide I followed.

It let's you run Google Photos without network permissions and with storage scopes limiting it to certain folders.

Huh? It's a replacement for android for pixel phones. Therefore it works on.... Pixel phones...

That doesn't mean it's difficult to install though.