So I’m looking to disconnect myself from Google and their tracking (as much as possible) and I was thinking about installing GrapheneOS on my Pixel phone. I mostly use my phone for Lemmy, Signal, NewPipe and taking photos. The last one is my biggest bother at the moment. The Google Photos environment is so convenient - I take a photo, it uploads it to my Google Photos collection, and after a while, it deletes it from my phone to clear space, keeping only the cloud backup. Is there a functionality like this disconnected from Google that I would be able to implement on my GrapheneOS phone? I’m looking to invest in the Proton environment (mainly Mail and Drive) so I could use that for storage. Cheers

  • CoachDom@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    But it’s a more costly option correct? Because rather than using an old machine, I would have to purchase a $500+ machine from them.

    • twotone@beehaw.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      A single bay “J” model should be around $200 including a 4tb drive. You can achieve a lot with that, especially if your focus is automated photo backup

        • twotone@beehaw.org
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, backup is very easy, I backup to a locally attached external hard drive as well as to a cloud service. There are loads of options and ways to manage backups