I already escaped everything big tech related except for my iPhone, but i will get myself a GrapheneOS pixel at some point. My biggest problem right now is my photos being stored on icloud. What can i do to prevent that?

  • NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
    8·
    4 days ago

    Nextcloud or immich

    Upload your photo backups to your own server. You can also use a app like FolderSync to just upload your photos from your phone to your PC or a home NAS.

    I have been slowly getting rid of my dependency on cloud services, things like contacts and calendar are a good way to slowly start.

  • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    As a heads up for everyone recommending Immich: for the last little while, it’s been owned by FUTO, a company that has apparently ties to both Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin.

    FUTO’s association with controversial political figures, particularly Curtis Yarvin, has become a flashpoint in the discussion. Yarvin’s self-described fascist views and his platforming on FUTO channels have led many in the community to question the organization’s values and intentions.

    No shade if anyone wants to use it anyway, but just mentioning it as it may be a privacy concern/could potentially become one in the future.

  • Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml
    3·
    3 days ago

    Immich for sure. Which a bunch of people have already suggested.

    That said, make sure you also invest the time and energy into a proper 3-2-1 backup strategy:

    • 3 copies: your primary pool of data (Immich library) and at least two backup copies
    • 2 different media types: SSD/NVMe as well as HDD NAS (as an example)
    • 1 copy off-site: cloud backup and/or another server located at a friend’s house

    How I do it:

    • Immich lives on my Unraid server which is 3x14TB spinning HDDs (two arrray disks and one parity)
    • NIghtly backup to another small server in same physical area as Unraid server but using NVMe storage
    • Nightly backup to yet another small server with NVMe storage at a family members house
    • Nightly backup to Backblaze B2 storage

    Sounds like a lot but was affordable (not so much anymore because of AI driving the cost of PC parts through the roof. Both of the “other” servers are cheap PCs. One is a Raspberry Pi 4 running on a 2.5" SSD rather than microSD. The other is an old Lenovo Thinkcentre micro PC that I paid $60 for at a computer recycling place.

    B2 storage is pretty affordable. I pay around $5/mo for just my photos/videos. It’s less than 1TB currently. There are heaps of other cloud storage options. B2 just seemed to fit well for me. Worth noting that up until recently, you had to either encrypt the data yourself before sending to Backblaze or have them do it for you, but that meant they had the encryption keys. They just implemented always on encryption though. But again, they have the keys. So I encrypt it before sending it off.

    Long winded explanation. But early in my family’s digital picture journey I had a close call and thought I lost wedding, honeymoon, and early baby pics due to a computer crash. Since then I’ve been more cautious and thoughtful.

  • freedickpics@lemmy.ml
    3·
    4 days ago

    Have you got a Mac too? You can just sync your photos to that and store them locally, then sync them back across to your devices. That’s what I do, no cloud storage involved and you get more control over which devices have which photos

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    4 days ago

    You can go through iCloud settings and delete all backups then sign out of iCloud.

    You probably know this. And, you might suspect as I do that nothing is ever really deleted, they just disable your access to it and don’t do anymore backups. There’s nothing we can do about that, we gave it to them, they’ll keep it forever, associated with your account, no matter what they say--at least that’s what I think. Maybe Apple really does delete it, but I doubt it.

    Google doesn’t delete anything, I doubt Apple does, either:

    https://medium.com/@istokovicsgyorgy79/the-great-google-scam-the-delete-button-that-actually-deletes-nothing-6fc2b169a778

  • TrollAccount69@lemmy.ml
    3·
    4 days ago

    Settings -> your name -> icloud -> saved to icloud -> photos “off”.

    Turn on advanced data protection.

    Back up your photos first.

    I also do not store photos on icloud so I understand that a person might want that.

    Why do you want that?

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
    1·
    4 days ago

    Apple positions iCloud as a “must use” — but I still use my phone with syncs and backups going to my computer. No iCloud. All photos get transferred to the computer on each sync, where they get sorted and touched up without the Photos app, and then a curated folder with stripped metadata etc. gets synched back to the phone.