Objects in Space

Not sophisticated. Reminder once a month to see how many photos I took. If it’s all random dog photos or pictures of things to remember the I ignore it. If it’s quality life events then I just download the new set and add it to my backup.

I used to get caught up with automation but sometimes it just takes 5 minutes to do something and I’m fine with it.

It’s one thing to switch yourself but if you have family doing it too, especially nontechnical - let them choose their own thing.

Download backups, host them if you want but you need their trust in self hosted solutions when it counts. Photos is not the hill to die in… in my opinion.

Agreed. Google photos is great in a lot of ways. I self host a lot of things but still choose Google photos because it’s great at what it does.

I have backups to switch at a moments notice but the trick is to make your life easier, reliable and consistent.