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Alternative to Google Photos (self.foss)
submitted 1 year ago by CoachDom 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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[-] eerongal@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 year ago

If that's the case you'll probably be well served with that model you linked above.

As for what your options are, there's a ton of functionality you can add to them through apps and can even practically run whole VMs on them. Probably not a great idea with the above model but the option is there.

Technically you could set it up as a pihole as well, yes, you'd need to install the docker service and load a DNS service and pihole into it, you can probably find some guides online how to do so.

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