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Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live (www.forbes.com)
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Google confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation. That means Gemini seeing who you know and what you do. You likely have tens or hundreds of thousands of photos. They’re all exposed if you update.

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[–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

Obviously cloud storage is convenient, but there's definitely better value in on-site backups.

That works out to $84/year, which is about what you could get a 1TB HDD for.

2 x 1TB HDDs in RAID will be much cheaper and reasonably safe in the long run.

1TB SSDs will be even better value due to their extended lifespans, and you'd get much better speeds.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I back up to local storage and then replicate offsite to S3 nightly.

    On-prem backups are great and cheap and fast and definitely plan A but a robust backup solution is going to require offsite storage of some sort. Object storage is one of the cheapest ways to do that for most situations, particularly for things that can't be replaced like photos.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I'd do the same if I wasn't so tight with my money lol. I prefer having multiple on-site backups so I don't have the subscription fees.

    If something bad enough happens to my house that it destroys all my backups then I imagine photos are not going to be very high on my list of priorities.

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