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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.
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.
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
Yeah. Web search sucks these days. Here's where I find stuff:
Awesome Self Hosted is a list of all kinds of self hosted options broken down into categories. It's a great resource. I browse this pretty regularly to see if anything catches my eye.
The selfh.st email newsletter is also great. Weekly email with some self hosting news, new projects and projects that have updated.
And the Lemmy communities!
selfhosted@lemmy.world
selfhost@lemmy.ml
linux@lemmy.world
linux@lemmy.ml