Thoughts on Ente Photos? I signed up for the free 10gb plan and they seem pretty good. I really miss being able to search photos and pull them up quickly (as I don't want to be tied to Google or Apple photos anymore).
#EntePhotos
I’m taken with Ente Photos! It does what I wanted, saves backups of my images as they appear on the Camera Roll.
Search is strong and simple. Natural language prompts work well. “Find a dog with tongue out”, Find a rainy day, etc.
Saves originals including ARW, various RAW formats, and DNG files. The iPhone app is active in the background to post snapshots as they happen.
Plans for external editor and plugin support down the road.
The plan is to put all the Google Photos takeout in a local Ente instance running on the 45homelab HL4. The stack is running. I used Houston UI and Portainer-CE for most of the installation work.
The trick was to edit the @ente quick start script to map the volumes and make other changes. I slipped in an exit after generation of .yaml files was complete.
The health check of Postgres took some fiddling as Rocky 8 Podman was using the early syntax.
Switched from #googlephotos to #entephotos
Will also not renew my #googleone subscribtion for more storage and start diversifying with #ente #protondrive and in the long-run self-host #homelab
Moved to @ente photos. Stopped using Google photos around 2 years ago. Was keeping offline. Finally made the switch.
#entephotos #degoogle #googlephotos #photos
Gibt es einen cloud Anbieter, der eine schicke Foto Galerie ala #entephotos und einen sicheren file upload ala #filen_io kombiniert? #unplugtrump
I've been building up my iCloud Photos library since buying the iPhone 3GS way back in 2011, so the inertia is strong.
However, it is the one big thing trapping me in Apple's ecosystem. Thankfully I recently discovered @ente which has been lovingly backing up my entire library for days now.
I'm going to stick to the iPhone for the time being, but I will significantly reduce my iCloud footprint and come down from the 2TB tier. #entephotos #icloudphotos
Use code WZ83V6 for an extra 10GB
FOSS NEWS
Bluesky app 1.98 released with option to restrict post replies to followers, post search for individual profiles etc.:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/2/bluesky-app-update-introduces-improved-interactivity-and-search-features/
(I've been considering to join Bluesky, but I don't know much about it outside the news about new features, will look into it when I'll have more time)
YouTube going desperate and cracking down on alt frontends took another victim, since Thursday evening (or afternoon?) FreeTube can't play any videos (live stream playback still works):
https://redlib.privacyredirect.com/r/degoogle/comments/1iu8d54/freetube_no_longer_works_and_devs_are_deleting/
(Devs said they are working on a fix, hopefully it will work. It would be really sad to see the most feature-rich YouTube client die off...)
PeaZip 10.3 released with better GNOME and KDE Plasma integration, ability to limit the max size for TAR archives, support saving the list of files and search results as CSV (with , and ; separator), TSV, or TXT etc.:
https://9to5linux.com/peazip-10-3-archive-manager-improves-integration-with-gnome-and-kde-plasma
Ente Photos 0.9.98 released with light mode, enhanced import, beta encrypted video streaming etc.:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/2/ente-photos-0-9-98-light-mode-enhanced-import-and-encrypted-video-streaming-beta/
OpenProject 15.3 released with option to schedule recurring meetings, set up a meeting template, default view shows upcoming meetings categorized into Open and Planned:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/2/openproject-15-3-has-been-released-with-an-option-to-schedule-recurring-meetings/
(Linux news in original post)
#WeeklyNews #News #FOSS #OpenSource #OpenSourceNews #FOSSNews #Bluesky #YouTube #YouTubeFrontend #YouTubeSucks #FreeTube #PeaZip #Ente #EntePhotos #OpenProject #SocialMedia #SocialMediaApp #SocialApp #ArchiveManager #Cloud #CloudStorage #ProjectManagement #FosseryTech
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So I've just installed the Android app. How do I set it to backup my entire camera folder? Initially I could only select individual photos, no way to select a folder. Now when I go to settings/backup/folders I can only select our select my initial choice, but I can't find a way to add additional folders/albums.
Am I missing something?
Fifteen #alternative #apps for better #privacy and #wellbeing. Luckily, there are apps available that are #notforprofit and #privacyfriendly, like #mastodon to stay connected, #signal for private (group) messaging, #jitsi for online video meetings, #openstreetmap and #wikiloc,
#pixelfed for sharing photos and video,
#immich or #entephotos as private photo and video cloud storage, etc
Check out the list:
https://waag.org/en/article/15-alternative-apps-better-privacy-and-wellbeing/
Does anybody have experience with #EntePhotos and #EnteAuth?
Uhmmn, why has #EntePhotos been transmitting nearly 5 GB of data while running in background?I have only 22 MB of photos stored online. Any ideas @ente? Using The #FDroid build.
Finally tried #EntePhotos to manage my photos in an encrypted storage and I like it quite a bit! There are some things that bother me though:
1) Tracking / data collection via #Sentry happens right on startup (the #FDroid build appears to have this removed). Not sure if it can be disabled at all (@ente should double-check if that is #GDPR compliant...).
2) #SelfHosting is more complicated than I like. The documentation is kind of basic:
https://help.ente.io/self-hosting/
Does anyone have practical experience with hosting Ente?
I have been using #EntePhotos and have been very impressed. Read my review on it below.
Grazie all'omino che su GitHub ha risposto al buon @roughnecks
#EntePhotos up & running ✌️
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