Not sure how many people were suffering from it, but Google Photos became adamant about pushing ads. I couldn’t find a replacement in Google Store which wasn’t doing the same. Downloaded F Droid, used alternative to website to find apps, downloaded and now the problem is solved. You can use Google Files to install the F Droid apk to start your journey of degoogling. I’m still using some proprietary apps which work with the Android UI such as Google’s Wallet but everything I could replace I did (unless I’d inconvenience myself like with Contacts). The open source apps have much better UIs and don’t bombard me with ads or other stuff the big corp wants to push like their accounts. I wish I had done it sooner and this post was made to encourage other people to do that. I tried Aurora Store, but Google doesn’t let me login. It tells me it would give me a popup to type a number into, but the popup never comes. Anyone knows what app pushes the popup? Is Aurora a full replacement for Play Store or do I need to have both installed?

  • fomo_erotic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    My NAS just arrived today. I’ll have ~42 TB of self hosted storage for 1k.

    Google is charging me something ridiculous like, 300 a year for the same.

    • elbowgrease@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      any thoughts on some other sort of remote data backup just in case of fire, water damage, etc? years ago I moved is off of our nas for this reason but at this point on I’m really not happy with Googles process and crappy photos software. I wouldn’t mind moving back to NAS with some cheaper no frills remote backup just in case

      • Contend6248@feddit.de
        2·
        1 year ago

        I don’t know how they are now, couple of years ago Backblaze was a nice deal. They are rather slow, but they have their backups.

        Remember to encrypt before uploading, just in case, there are tools even checking if the backups are still valid and randomly download, decrypt and checks them. If you don’t check your backups, you might as well don’t do them.

        I do my off-site backups of important data now with other people.

      • uberrice@feddit.de
        1·
        1 year ago

        For remote backup, always keep your data in multiple ‘importance levels’. There’s replaceable, irreplaceable and very important.

        Replaceable is non-niche movies and all kinds of other things that are commonly available, data not ‘exclusive to you’. Irreplaceable is data that is (probably) only owned by you - photos, videos, source code, documents and so on. Very important are the few documents you really can’t afford to lose. Security keys, banking info and so on.

        I don’t bother backing up replaceable data - I keep one local and one off site backup for the irreplaceable data and very important data (1tb hetzner storage box is enough for me), and I keep a few encrypted physical usb sticks and sd cards strewn around at my parents and at work for the irreplaceable data that periodically get updated.