Yeah. I've heard good things about Ente. For me, I was at a storage tier where i was over 100gb of docs & photos, and between 1 & 2TB when you include video. Most hosted services get kinda pricey at those storage tiers.
I didn't really set out to self host, but since in needed to solve for docs, photos, and videos, I just went with self hosting. I'm happy with it, just acknowledging that it's not for everyone
His do you eat a whale? One bite at a time.
I was the same as you. Got Gmail way back when. I've left pretty much all google services at this point except YouTube.
For me, mail and cal were the easiest things to switch switched to mailbox.org. I tried Proton first, and i like using Proton quite a bit, but opted for Mailbox because my my wife (who wants to keep Gmail for personal) can get IMAP for mailbox and her remaining google in a single app. Proton is more polished, but Mailbox suited our need better. Tuta is good too.
Switching away from Google docs and Photos was harder. I used google docs extensively, and it was harder to find a good replacement. Same for photos which used since it was Picasa. I opted for self hosted for those (Paperless-ngx, nextcloud, and immich). I like paperless a lot. Its tons better than google drive for static docs. Immich is pretty promising, and has some great tools. But you do sacrifice a bit of polish and simplicity. Still worth it for me.
Price of self hosting is probably a wash compared to paid storage as long as you ignore the cost of your labor to learn and set it all up.
They should just mandate that the child pornographers set the evil bit. It would save the EU leaders the trouble of learning how cryptography works.
YouTube is drowning in it, and Google/YT leadership either doesn't care or doesn't seem to realize it. I started using Grayjay recently, subscribed to just creators I like. And for the first time in a long while, my feed isn't two-thirds AI slop. It's made YouTube tolerable again.
I don't know about relief. The people that put him there and did all the project 2025 shit are still at the helm. It's hard to feel relief when the criminals run DOJ, NSA, CIA, DOD, etc..
AI upscaling is still just upscaling. It's not going to change shadow details like the way this article suggests. And if you upload SDTV video to YouTube, you are ensuring that upscaling has to happen on every display you can watch youtube on. And if you have to upscale, more intelligent, content-aware scalers are likely to be better than older scaler algorithms. Even if YouTube didn't do this, a scaler on the playback device will.
No sensible engineer is going to design an upscaler that intentionally makes video look bad. This youtuber could probably solve their problem by scaling the video to 4k themsekves, ensuring it still looks shitty after scaling, then upload that version to YouTube.
Of all the uses of AI we might complain about, I don't really get the beef here.
Learn how to use the terminal early on. It's where you fix stuff or it doesn't work as expected in the GUI.
E: its in there, just a little far down the list IMO.
I still remember the CD-ROM carpet bombing campaign of 1995.
is that what they told him cured the strokes. Lol.