iamjkt
It’s a no-win situation in that respect and it sucks.
Never gets far enough to write to hdd.
'This will enable on-device machine learning and face search which will start analyzing your uploaded photos locally.
For the first run after login or enabling this feature, it will download all images on local device to analyze them. So please only enable this if you are ok with bandwidth and local processing of all images in your photo library.
If this is the first time you're enabling this, we'll also ask your permission to process face data.'
I saw ente on a Reddit post somewhere. I like it's a mostly paid product with what seems to be a sustainable free/trial tier which is unlikely to drive them out of business. I like the e2ee, and their clients being opensource and they provide an easy way to keep an offline mirror (through the desktop client). It ticks my boxes.
I used their free trial - 1Gb of storage available for a year iirc - to try out a few things but then ran in parallel for a while and now have stopped syncing my new photos to Google. Good luck with whatever you decide!
Some massaging was needed of the takeout data to remove some dupes but uploading was smooth and the UI is pretty good.
I move from Zoho to Fastmail a year later and it’s a much slicker experience.
(Just mail, I didn’t use any of Zoho’s collaborative tools.)
The point you suggested that hosting their own email server is the most trivial step they could do to solve the problem is when I switched off.
The configuration of the service is much easier than Google makes it. Filtering took some getting used to, but I have it working much better than I ever could on Google, so happy bunny there. And the Android client is OK too.
The only meh part (for me) is the web interface for email/calendar isn't as streamlined as Google, but being out of that eco-system more than makes up for it.
They (PyCharm, PHPStorm, etc) use a load of multi-key shortcuts which include use of the function keys and it became a real pig to use and ultimately I gave up (expensive - I'd bought 2; one for home, one for work...).
How do others manage this? Have another layer with all the usual keys but replace numbers with function keys? I don't fancy remapping all the shortcuts.
This looks even better though. Nice one!
The author was always happy to add new sources too.