BlueSky Post.
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If you tell someone to “Google it” at this point you’re telling them to look up five ads and some AI-generated bs instead of the actual thing they want to know.
old guy takes long hit on the bong
“Back in my day, search engines used to find things besides the wreckage of late-stage capitalism.”
I can't stop using that and Google photos. Instant backup of all photos, and more importantly, great search. It even recognizes my two dogs.
If you are in to hosting things yourself on an old computer. Immich is pretty much a drop in google photos
Organic Maps is a huge step in the right direction using Openstreetmaps. It is about at the level if a dedicated GPS in my opinion, just doesn't have traffic data to route around like the big 3.
well I'm all about that :) but will it's image recognition capabilities work on a raspberry pi or a 12-year-old laptop?
I'll check. both of them. thanks!
It's not really any better than Google on the "supporting large companies" front, but I've found OneDrive to be plenty sufficient for the Google photos use case. It isn't as slick, I'll admit, but I'm still happy with it as a replacement for big G products.