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Re:Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to ... by cientifico on Monday August 30, 2021 @03:29AM (#28353463)
But that will mean that for every version of the algorithms, it have to read all the photos since 15 years ago... my phone battery will die soon.

And if I need to have other kind of client... like a nas to do that... Why I need the cloud?

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Re:Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to ... by vishnumohandas on Monday August 30, 2021 @03:37AM (#28353493)
> phone battery will die soon

Indexing will be opt-in. You will be able to run the indexing only on your desktop client for instance.

> Why I need the cloud?

So that you don't have to manage your own storage infrastructure? But if you would like to do that, then there are self-hosted alternatives that will better serve your use case.

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