Can You Trust Google Photos With Your Life's Work?

Daniel uses Google Photos as a visual knowledge base for his engravings — photographing, organizing, and referencing them with ChatGPT. But he's hit a wall: there's no way to incrementally back up his albums. In this episode, we break down why Google Photos is designed to prevent you from leaving, examine tools like gphotos-sync and rclone that try to work around the limitations, and explore alternatives like Ente, PhotoPrism, and notes apps. Can you get both convenience and control without self-hosting? The answer reveals a deeper divide between products built on data ownership and products built on engagement. Episode #365053 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/365053