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

  • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔
    2•1 year ago

    I’m using Synology photos. Auto backup for everyone’s phones. Shared common library we move things into for all our photos. I miss some of the ai search capability of Google, but never enough to do anything but self host.

    • @CCatMan
      1•1 year ago

      Does this mean the Synology is exposed to the public internet?

      • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔
        2•1 year ago

        If you wish. You can set it up to only sync locally (intranet only) or you may expose it via DNS and port forwarding.

        • @CCatMan
          1•1 year ago

          I would need to think about this. There are times I need to look at photos from weeks ago, but not too often…

          Moving over to the Synology would make it a LOT easier to switch OSs on my phone and not install any Google services. 🤔 Let me think more about this.

          • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔
            2•1 year ago

            This of course presumes that you have a Synology disk station. They come in a variety of different models.

            I’m surprised at how much I’m able to serve from my device. I use it for cloud storage, file thinking across devices, photo management and backup across devices, ebook management, running a game server for my family, running an evernote-like service, etc etc.

            It’s been really good to have full control over all my information and not have to pay ever increasing fees to various companies for various services.

            • @CCatMan
              1•1 year ago

              I’m thinking of the DS423 for media, photos, and notes. No transcoding.

              • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔
                1•1 year ago

                I’ve got the same hw in mine. Although I did buy and install ram to max it out. It’s not the most powerful machine out there, but it’s plenty enough for us.