https://www.garfieldtech.com/ en https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/photo-albums <article data-history-node-id="329" role="article" class="node node--type-story node--promoted node--view-mode-teaser clearfix"> <header> <h2 class="node__title"> <a href="/blog/photo-albums" rel="bookmark"><span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Self hosted photo albums</span> </a> </h2> <div class="node__meta"> <article class="profile"> </article> <span> Submitted by <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Larry</span></span> on <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden">12 November 2024 - 4:22pm</span> </span> </div> </header> <div class="node__content clearfix"> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>I've long kept my photo backups off of Google Cloud. I've never trusted them to keep them safe, and I've never trusted them to not do something with them I didn't want. Like, say, ingest them into AI training without telling me. (Which, now, everyone is doing.) Instead, I've backed up my photos to my own <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://nextcloud.com/">Nextcloud</a> server, manually organized them, and let them get backed up from there.</p> <p>More recently, I've decided I really need a proper photo album tool to carry around "wallet photos" of family and such to show people. A few years back I started building my own application for that in Symfony 4, but I ran into some walls and eventually abandoned the effort. This time, I figured I'd see what was available on the market for self-hosted photo albums for me and my family to use.</p> <p>Strap yourself in, because this is a really depressing story (with a happy ending, at least).</p></div> <div class="node__links"> <ul class="links inline"><li class="node-readmore"><a href="/blog/photo-albums" rel="tag" title="Self hosted photo albums" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about Self hosted photo albums</span></a></li></ul> </div> </div> </article> Tue, 12 Nov 2024 22:22:23 +0000 Larry 329 at https://www.garfieldtech.com