👨🏻‍🌾 Ramblings of an addle-headed YAML farmer

Backing up your photos For any parent, our collection of photos and videos is precious cargo. Years ago during a transition between cloud services, we lost some photos. It was painful. We searched backups, found some, but ultimately never were sure what we may have lost. So when we moved to Google Photos, it was welcome as they claim to "backup" your photos, not just sync them. My wife and I each have libraries of 400 to 500 GB, so these are by far the biggest services we have to migrate. At...

Google for (almost) everything... Several years back, my wife was doing freelance business and needed a higher tier of Google Drive storage. We already had Office365 accounts with custom domain email, but she needed to use Google Drive for a client, so I switched us over to GSuite Basic accounts. We used these accounts for everything, including our combined almost 1 TB photos and video library. Family Link When we got our first Chromebook, my first encounter with the "you can't use that accou...