Skip the Monthly Cloud Fees: There’s a Better Way to Store Your Photos and Videos

You come back from vacation and find that you’ve taken more than 1,000 pictures. What do you do with them?

I used to upload all of my images to Google Photos. When the service debuted in 2015, Google promised free, unlimited cloud storage for photos and videos. I loved it because it allowed me to access my full library of memories from any device and because it made those memories feel secure — even if I dropped my phone in a lake or if my laptop died, I’d still have a copy of everything saved in the…