I love Google Photos; its ease of use and feature set are unrivaled in my opinion. However, I’m an even bigger fan of self-hosting — I use my DIY NAS to replace a considerable range of overpriced ...

Back in the day, Google Photos used to be my primary tool for managing images and backing them up to a cloud server. But once I’d grown accustomed to hosting containerized services on local machines, ...

Seeking privacy from AI training, a software expert moved from Google Photos to a self-hosted Immich setup. This transition involved significant hardware investment and ongoing maintenance costs, ...