• Inui [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    27 days ago

    I can pirate 1TB of movies and store them in an encrypted cloud backup (so they don’t know it’s copyrighted material) for significantly less than the cost of Netflix for a whole year.

    I do this for my 500~ ebooks in addition to more important stuff because they’re so small.

    It’s actually like 4 dollars a month to store my entire lifetime so far of home movies and pictures.

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      26 days ago

      what cloud service do you use? i would love to move all my photos and shit away from google, but i dont know what’s cheapest and what’s actually going to be around long-term without losing all my shit some day

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        26 days ago

        I self host Immich to actually act as a Google Photos replacement, but I backup all my stuff with backblaze. It gets encrypted before I send it instead of using their keys. You can look into Ente for a more private Google Photos replacement that is maybe what you’re looking for.

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            26 days ago

            Oh for self-hosting I strongly prefer Immich. Ente is good for someone who is willing to pay for something like Google Photos though with their cloud option. Figured not everyone has servers set up or wants to bother, especially with hardware prices right now.

    • I’ve done this but built my own server. Not sure what the better move would have been. I suppose I could still move things to a data center, but I like having it all local.

      Where do you go for your ebooks? Do you also do audio books? Been looking to get on some private trackers.