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Just to add context - I do have backups, but they're spread across a myriad of different hard drives. I had used Amazon Photos to consolidate, and benefit from the facial recognition to be able to quickly locate pictures of family members quickly. I think that I'll give DigiKam another go, against the NAS loaded up. Thanks for the comments!
This is a general question; is no one else worried about Amazon or whichever company trolling your photos with face recognition, building up a graph of who you are connected to, all in the name of "giving you a better shopping experience"? Or who knows what else they might do with the meta data or AI object recognition shenanigans. I guess I don't extend much trust to the companies that provide these services, especi…
FWIW, I don't think so. There's such a thing as healthy paranoia.
Privacy considerations definitely factored into my decision to move my library to iCloud Photos from Google Photos a couple years ago.
I still maintain more than one backup of that library — one local, and one to a cloud backup provider.
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> I don't bother archiving documents Isn't that 2 or 3 orders of magnitude less space though? I do understand where you're coming from for sure.
You have to fuck around with the storage format because by default scanning sofware, even when scanning documents, will basically just take poorly compressed high resolution images. Maybe there's some service which sorts that out for you but so far I have a little webapp which stores an index of paper copies. Once I figure out how to automate scanning, compressing and OCRing documents then I think it will be worth st…
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While I still use Google Photos, there are times that I don't want pictures I take with my phone to be synced to the cloud. Since Google Photos does not allow such functionality, I installed a second camera app. That app allows me to choose where the picture are saved, so I save them to a folder that doesn't get backed up by Google Photos. It's annoying to have to do this, but at least I can finally choose what gets…
I specifically use "Secure Cam" from GrapheneOS (mine came from Google Play) for this, as it is close to the stock pixel camera and doesn't suffer the lag some other camera apps have. -- edit I originally called the app "private cam" and said it was from fdroid, apologies! Forgot I had aliased it.
This is just a reminder to take a backup of your cloud photos and store it locally (or other cloud provider). For example, with Google Takeout you can get a ZIP file with all your photos and videos from Google Photos.
So... what do y'all actually do with your hundreds of thousands of photos? I just bulk delete everything older than a month when my phone is low on storage. Do you ever actually go back and look at any of the hundreds of thousands of pictures? When do you do this?
The thing is also to delete photos you don't want to keep long term. Most of my photos are only synced when I am on my local wifi, so until then having a good hygiene of deleting badly taken photos right after taking them.
Having said that I have recently started (late december) to do a weekly printing session of my key moments of each weeks. Well there have been weeks in january and february I didn't print anything. I sometimes only have one or two photo per day/event but since I put the date on the notebook next to the photo and keep all other photos it helps me find back the whole event if I want to see them all. I am using smaller photo format than 10x15cm, mostly zink 2"x3" adhesive photos and kodak instant print 3"x3" from instant cameras that have a printer function.
I should blog about that.
From a scalability standpoint how does one accumulate, and then utilize, a quarter million photos? I'm a bit older than most, but that would be a photo every other hour since the minute I was born... Kind of a digital hoarder moment. Which is relevant because my entire archive fits on a flash drive and I have a couple flash drives and its no big deal at that small of a scale. But a quarter mil pics will take some ser…
Now, we select less than 10% for a private Flickr album that we actually enjoy looking at and sharing with the grandparents, etc. But so far it's been easier and safer to store the remainder instead of deleting them. I've gotten into trouble before with my wife when I deleted a photo that I thought was crummy, but she loved for some reason.
Edited to add: We also photograph all of the kids' artwork as a compromise instead of trying to save all that paper or hang it up somewhere in our house, which would be their preference. Those go into their own albums, which has actually turned out to be pretty neat.
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So... what do y'all actually do with your hundreds of thousands of photos? I just bulk delete everything older than a month when my phone is low on storage. Do you ever actually go back and look at any of the hundreds of thousands of pictures? When do you do this?
When you have kids, and when they turn into teenagers, you'll want to remember them as they were before. ;) My daughter loves looking back at home videos of the family. So embarrassing, so beautiful, so many little things about their personalities that would otherwise be forgotten. Just a few hours ago I was checking backups and stumbled into a nest of folders that had some more home videos in it, and of my son just…
This space is frustrating with any of the cloud vendors as they originally offered a lot of storage for free, then had to resort to various strategies to claw that back after it got expensive. Google is especially frustrating for me. By default, an Android tries to sync all videos and photos up to Google photos. You can turn that off, but not in any sort of granular way. For example, you can't say "sync photos, but d…
Getting users to add photos and then charging (while also using them as image sets for training) was the strategy from the beginning. They didn't resort to anything. Keeping your photos stored somewhere is very sticky, particularly for non-software developers. And even so how do you even transfer them to another service without a huge bill?
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I’ve had good support experiences at amazon actually
I have too, but when they have a bad policy they’ll defend it to death. Specifically I contacted them about a product listing that, at best, was word salad right out of Blueler’s book on schizophrenia. They told me they didn’t want to hear any complaints unless I’d bought the product. Of course, that kind of listing is endemic on AMZN, and I’d have no problem reporting several of those each time I go shopping. Action…
You have to think about the game-theoretic equilibrium of the alternative, given the same set of bad actors involved: if you could report listings you hadn't bought, then these idiots would all just be constantly reporting their product-category brand-name competitors' listings, as non-suspicious one-off actions from different dark-web-purchased pre-aged accounts, to the point that Amazon would just have to ignore "reported listings" as a signal anyway.
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Old cheap Mac Mini with USB drive attached. Put Photos library on it. Set it to keep all photos locally. Back up that drive elsewhere.
I was doing just this for a while but stopped because my Mac Mini was too old for the last few OS releases. I then switched to using the Windows iCloud client but a bug from ~2 years ago that consumes tremendous CPU cycles made that less than ideal. (The best you can do is lock it to a single thread, which will then use 100% 24/7) Now I just don't backup my iCloud, though I do remove everything older than one year ev…
There is usually someone who’ll point out that this probably violates licensing, and it probably does if you do it on non-Apple hardware.