Re:Google Photos will lock some new features behind a paywall
by akkartik on Saturday November 07, 2020 @01:33PM
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I already have all that. Like I said in the part you trimmed out:
> Photos are the only things I don't have backups for due to their sheer size
The bottleneck here isn't storage space. It's bandwidth and transfer time, given Android's crappy file system interface. (iOS, of course, has none.)
I kept up with Google Photos backups for almost a year. But ain't nobody got time for that.
Re:Google Photos will lock some new features behind a paywall
by MikusR on Saturday November 07, 2020 @02:02PM
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Install syncthing on your phone and use it to safely get photos out.
Re:Google Photos will lock some new features behind a paywall
by akkartik on Saturday November 07, 2020 @02:15PM
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Thanks, I'm trying it out now.
If you've been living in the Apple ecosystem for a while, where 1 TB on your laptop is precious, realize that both SSD and spinning rust drives have plummeted in cost over the last decade. You can get a 12TB drive on sale for $175. That's $15 per TB. If you want something mobile and convenient, 2.5" external drives are ~$100 for 4TB. If you need speedy disk, a fast, 1TB m2 NVMe SSD can be had for just $100.
Really, for just $200 you can get two external drives (always have a backup) and have the peace of mind that all your photos are 1) safe, and 2) in your possession.