Man, I setup Immich for my whole family, a RAID6 of enterprise drives with about 10TB total available storage, and 1TB/user. I've got symmetrical 1Gbs fiber, too. Does anyone use it? No. The last get together I told them if anyone wanted help setting it up, I wouldn't mind. And no takers really. I said it's easy enough anymore with a 1TB SSD being <$100 it'd last a very long time they could back up too that, far more than Google allows... Nope...

It's insane to me that nobody wants to change, but when these companies change on everyone, they just let it happen.

You could tell people that they could get rid of google and their invasive strategies by following a link and they would be like: oof, no thank you.

But in reality it takes some work.

The thought of having to transfer gigabytes worth of photos and videos is legitimately daunting. That’s enough to stop most daily users, and Google is banking on that.

I'm so fucking pissed about people having my pictures everywhere. It's so frustrating that nobody cares. They've FA and now going to FO as soon as the governments destabilize enough for them to track down dissidents and punish political opponents. Everyone will be blackmailed and lick boots because Aunt Linda thought her texts to the neighbor about your secrets were private. In my country I hear they now want federal surveillance in cars starting in 2027. Not sure if it is true. If so, I'm done y'all.