On the other hand, I always think its awesome to see self hosted solutions! It helps to create competition.
If you've never self hosted anything there is indeed a large initial time and money investment. However, going through it once it pays itself off in the long run and adding additional services or maintaining existing ones becomes trivial.
Actually owning your data and having full control over it without worrying who it might be shared with or how it might be used is absolutely worth the hassle for some people.
Will also backup offsite and take a manual snapshot each year for all my pics. Unlikely that I will backup the Plex-style media.
I am just as afraid of Google shutting off my account as I am about losing my own data.
I’ve been thinking about creating a service to back files up for 100+ years. I think s3 will be around that long, but the offering would need to survive the saas shutdown with a way to continue paying the bills. Could have an escrow fund to incentivize devs to maintain cloud storage integrations, with some sort of a voting mechanism for subscribers (crypto tokens for corp governance?)
Just putting a few half baked thoughts into the ether in case you find it interesting.
I am thinking of buying a NAS that I can setup in my parents house so I can transfer them over there automatically instead of the manual copy action to the external drive
Unless you have kids. [If you have kids Google is a no-go](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveil...). Since becoming a dad I've finally started to untangle myself from Google. Only thing left is my android phone - seriously considering an alternative e.g. apple (but I wouldn't store pictures with them either)
I was expecting this to be Hacker News hyperbole but god that is TERRIFYING. Apple's CSAM plans were using a database of known images and got enough backlash, but Google trying to use AI to detect abuse? What a HORRIBLE idea.
According to this support article, you can store original quality. Assuming that is what you meant by "lossless".