Apple Photos app corrupts images

You couldn't pay me to go back to using anything made by Apple or Google. I use a GrapheneOS Pixel and my self-hosted "cloud" with Nextcloud, HomeAssitant, and my own email server and the control and performance are unrivaled by any of the Big Tech crapware. I could start self-hosting an AI chatbot I suppose, but these do not seem to have reached the point of enshiffication yet as relatively new services.

How do you deal with deliverability issues on the self hosted email server. I've always heard that's a hard or at least finicky problem.

I think the deliverability issues boil down to i) IP, ii) domain age, iii) DKIM setup. The only one that is difficult to get around is i) I suppose; I am fortunate enough to have access to a clean IPv4 in a non-residential block. If you are facing deliverability issues, consider a relay service such as mailgun.

That being said, I mostly receive email, and the privacy benefits of running my own server would still be significant even without the ability to send email at all.

Thanks for that answer.

Re: the privacy benefits, is it just that Google (or whoever) has no access to your mail, or is there another benefit? I'm not doubting, just trying to understand specifically what you protect against? And how much is the benefit diminished, if at all, if most of your correspondents are on a BigMailServer?