Maybe try Ente then?

Haven't used it before myself, but I've heard good things, and it does have a memories feature, and it seems at least based on the examples on their website that it might generate something more than just "today x years ago".

Unsure to what degree it works though, and unfortunately Ente is also a paid service (though it is privacy focused, and I believe it has a FOSS app too)

Seems like "Smart Memories" are on the roadmap for Immich though, so you might just have to wait a bit and can then switch once they're there:

There aren't really any other mature options out there for self hosted, or even just private Google Photos alternatives in my experience, so you're kinda just stuck with Immich for the most feature-complete replacement, and Ente for a more "just works" private but not self-hosted one. Everything else is basically just a glorified file browser, but maybe with some smart searching or better media codec support.

+1 for Fossify, the developer is a great guy who forked the old and now ad-riddled Simple Gallery

Smart Memories sounds exactly like what I want so I'll definitely check it out once the feature goes Gold. Thanks for doing the heavy lifting for me.

For what I do understand is that they will use your pictures to serve you targeted ads to what you are interested of, if that's the case probably you'll get ads about butthole bleaching

That's kinda the point. If we can't have economic growth without considering the humanistic aspect of it, then maybe we don't deserve said economic growth.

It really hasn't. It's always been a commercial outfit and it's been true to that goal: make money. Consumers keep making fantastical stories about a titan of surveillance-capitalism though. It was financed via the CIA and it has been working with the USA's intelligence-community from day dot. It hasn't changed. It's still Google and it will continue being Google.

Not exactly 1 to 1, but it is also possible to use Jellyfin for this purpose.

Afaik, the enterprise gemini has data protections so yes they can for those willing to pay enterprise level AI. This is a different case for consumer level AI.

It's an email server. Even the littlest company can afford an email server with some limitations, let alone Google. And right, it's about values. My gmail account comes from those times that won't come back.

I already have a different email address. I just need an alternative to Google drive, and Google docs then, I can bail on Google forever. I'm so tired of Google doing evil and privacy invasive shit.

That was always the deal with gmail though

I wonder if that will only stop the ads being personalized or the data collection will also stop. My bet is on the former, but I hope I'm wrong.

It was not.

I use this one on grindr.

Oh, I don’t mind all that. As long as I get the pictures.

This is also why I don’t trust Brave either. Any company that profits off an ad network and can change the rules whenever they want is dangerous. Even if Brave doesn’t do it now, doesn’t mean they won’t.

I too am very interested in this.

Do you need the collaborative aspect of Google docs?

I use it for DnD a lot to take notes and share them with my group. Would be nice to find something with that functionality.

Tuta Mail and PixelUnion!

That's tough because it means convincing everyone to switch to it, whatever it is. I'd give proton drive a whirl. If you're mostly saving text documents, I don't think the limitations of the free tiers should even be an issue.