I like the idea of moving away from the big companies, and the privacy it brings, but security is a huge show stopper for me.

e.x. For self hosting photos, am I gonna do something dumb that exposes the NAS on my network? Immich is not encrypted at rest, so what if someone just breaks in and steals my NAS? I could try and set up whole disk encryption, but what if I’m an idiot and end up losing all my photos because I make a mistake?

Philosophically I applaud articles like this, but I find iCloud with Advanced Data Protection to be way less scary than dealing with the weakest link: me (as a sys admin).