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This story should serve as a warning and a motivation to move away from iCloud, Google Cloud, and alike for video and photo storage. The easiest thing is to jus

This story should serve as a warning and a motivation to move away from iCloud, Google Cloud, and alike for video and photo storage. The easiest thing is to just purchase a drive or NAS and store your media on it. If you're a bit tech-savvy, you can run your own NextCloud. I run NextCloud on Hetzner, 1TB storage box + web server for a total of $7 a month. Or you can get Hetzner to run the NextCloud for you for about $4.7 a month for 1TB storage, but then you don't have full control over it. Then there are quite nice NextCloud apps for Android and iOS that you can configure to sync your photos and videos into your cloud.

threeseed 4y ago
No you see that requires work when most people would rather complain. It's such a shame because having these services be healthy and popular benefits everyone.
- bbarn 4y ago
  I am a software professional and run my own email and it's a massive pain in the ass. I started also using a google account just to use for all the stupid sign ups the internet makes you do, and use my real email for actual correspondence, banking, and a few other things only.
pas 4y ago
> 1TB storage box hah, we're a hetzner costumer for .. years now, but I had no idea they have this :D https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box so you can connect the NextCloud to the storage account? which protocol do you use for this?
- RealStickman_ 4y ago
  Not OP, but I also use Hetzner and their storage boxes. Servers I use will connect using samba. For temporary access from other devices I usually use FTPS, but they also offer a bunch of other protocols.
- binwiederhier 4y ago
  It's a limited SSH, so you can use rsync and Borg for backup. You can also use Samba to connect to it. So I think nextcloud would work with samba.
egman_ekki 4y ago
Can NextCloud do OCR on the pictures, identify people and allow search by objects in the photo? Because those are the killer features for me that make it super useful to use Google photos.
- threesquared 4y ago
  You might want to check out something like https://photoprism.app/ https://photoprism.app/
  - rwalle 4y ago
    I bet that the accuracy and user experience are nowhere as good as Google Photos. Which is sad.
- kornhole 4y ago
  Yes. https://github.com/marcelklehr/recognize https://github.com/marcelklehr/recognize I run Nextcloud on a Raspberry PI running yunohost.org for all my family.
- COGlory 4y ago
  Sort of...not well. There is an app for NextCloud called Recognize [1]. It has gotten significantly better in the last year or so, but it's still pretty bad and pretty slow. [1] https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/recognize https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/recognize

threeseed 4y ago

No you see that requires work when most people would rather complain. It's such a shame because having these services be healthy and popular benefits everyone.

bbarn 4y ago
I am a software professional and run my own email and it's a massive pain in the ass. I started also using a google account just to use for all the stupid sign ups the internet makes you do, and use my real email for actual correspondence, banking, and a few other things only.

pas 4y ago

> 1TB storage box hah, we're a hetzner costumer for .. years now, but I had no idea they have this :D https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box so you can connect the NextCloud to the storage account? which protocol do you use for this?

RealStickman_ 4y ago
Not OP, but I also use Hetzner and their storage boxes. Servers I use will connect using samba. For temporary access from other devices I usually use FTPS, but they also offer a bunch of other protocols.
binwiederhier 4y ago
It's a limited SSH, so you can use rsync and Borg for backup. You can also use Samba to connect to it. So I think nextcloud would work with samba.

egman_ekki 4y ago

Can NextCloud do OCR on the pictures, identify people and allow search by objects in the photo? Because those are the killer features for me that make it super useful to use Google photos.

threesquared 4y ago
You might want to check out something like https://photoprism.app/ https://photoprism.app/
- rwalle 4y ago
  I bet that the accuracy and user experience are nowhere as good as Google Photos. Which is sad.
kornhole 4y ago
Yes. https://github.com/marcelklehr/recognize https://github.com/marcelklehr/recognize I run Nextcloud on a Raspberry PI running yunohost.org for all my family.
COGlory 4y ago
Sort of...not well. There is an app for NextCloud called Recognize [1]. It has gotten significantly better in the last year or so, but it's still pretty bad and pretty slow. [1] https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/recognize https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/recognize