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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    6 hours ago

    If you install immich in your homelab, you can just transfer all the images off your device very easily with the immich app.

    Probably the only way to keep them private from big tech. But the long term solution is to not use the official Android or Apple systems and to root your phone and install cyanogenmod or something similar without Google apps.

    But that means some apps wont work at all, so thats the price to pay for that freedom.

    Or you can just buy a separate camera and stop using your phone for that.

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        I’ve had zero problems installing it and exposing it on one of my subdomains via nginx. I thought it was one of the easiest things to install and configure. Like, no errors or unknowns when installing.
        That being said, this isn’t something the average user will be or even should be doing. Its a niche product for the tech literate, not an alternative for what cloud providers are offering. I’d not recommend it to anyone who can’t tell the difference between “wifi” and “internet”.

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          I’d not recommend it to anyone who can’t tell the difference between “wifi” and “internet”.

          https://xkcd.com/2501

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        I can give you a docker compose that will just work if you want, as long as you have a domain name and a ingress controller running. But yes, its not easy.