Google Photos will lock some new features behind a paywall

Re:Google Photos will lock some new features behind a paywall by akkartik on Saturday November 07, 2020 @01:33PM (#25017206)

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.

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Re:Google Photos will lock some new features behind a paywall by MikusR on Saturday November 07, 2020 @02:02PM (#25017608)

Install syncthing on your phone and use it to safely get photos out.

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Re:Google Photos will lock some new features behind a paywall by akkartik on Saturday November 07, 2020 @02:15PM (#25017821)

Thanks, I'm trying it out now.

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Re:Google Photos will lock some new features behind a paywall by xnx on Saturday November 07, 2020 @01:44PM (#25017357)

I agree it's a hassle, and a bummer that they de-integrated Google Drive and Google Photos. I've got a reasonably functional alternative using SyncTrayzor/Syncthing.

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