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
    14·
    18 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.

      • NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 hours ago

        This really depends on your comfort levels TBH. My first NAS was a old motherboard with about 4gb of memory and a old core 2 duo cpu.

        If you have any old components such as a old laptop, or a old pc, or maybe some thing like a raspberry pi you can start tinkering with Samba shares.

        With a raspberry pi you could run something like HomeAssistant and setup a small smaba share. Plug a hardrive in and you have a network share to store files.

        As for older pc components you can start with something like truenas, it’s a little bit of a learning curve but it’s a good way to tinker and slowly start to learn.

        For me I run truenas for all my home NAS and media storage. On the side, another pc runs something called Unraid for services like Nextcloud and Immich to keep things separated.