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Alternative to Google Photos (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 year ago by CoachDom@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/foss@beehaw.org
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So I'm looking to disconnect myself from Google and their tracking (as much as possible) and I was thinking about installing GrapheneOS on my Pixel phone. I mostly use my phone for Lemmy, Signal, NewPipe and taking photos. The last one is my biggest bother at the moment. The Google Photos environment is so convenient - I take a photo, it uploads it to my Google Photos collection, and after a while, it deletes it from my phone to clear space, keeping only the cloud backup. Is there a functionality like this disconnected from Google that I would be able to implement on my GrapheneOS phone? I'm looking to invest in the Proton environment (mainly Mail and Drive) so I could use that for storage. Cheers

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[-] CoachDom@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

But it's a more costly option correct? Because rather than using an old machine, I would have to purchase a $500+ machine from them.

[-] twotone@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

A single bay "J" model should be around $200 including a 4tb drive. You can achieve a lot with that, especially if your focus is automated photo backup

[-] CoachDom@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Do you keep an offline backup of your Synology NAS drive? In case it's disk craps out.

[-] twotone@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, backup is very easy, I backup to a locally attached external hard drive as well as to a cloud service. There are loads of options and ways to manage backups

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