• prenatal_confusion@feddit.org
      2·
      1 hour ago

      It’s smooooth. Face recognition. Map. Albums based on similar pictures. Etc. Nice app, automatic upload and focused on images and not a whole suite of things.

  • Mike@lemmy.world
    8·
    4 hours ago

    Been running Immich at home on a raspberry pi via tailscale for over a month now and honestly it’s better than I thought. I had some doubts at first about the difficulty of setting it up and the time it would take for it to parse all my photos and ease of use and stuff like thatbut it’s been really great.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        Installing is only easier once you understand compose.

        DB maintenenace is more complicated

        DB and File backups are more complicated

        DB and File restores are more complicated.

        Logs are more complicated. Config changes are more complicated.

        There are a lot of apps that are ideal for Docker. Critical data storage for the home-gamer in containers isn’t easy.

      • enumerator4829@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Because dockers record with regards to security is questionable, and some people like to get automatic updates from their distro. For me personally, I think the design of Docker is absolute garbage. Containers are fine, but Docker is not the correct mechanism for it. (It’s also nothing new, see BSD jails and Solaris zones.)

        Immich on Nixos works perfectly, and I also get automatic updates.

        • utopiah@lemmy.ml
          4·
          1 hour ago

          Because dockers record with regards to security is questionable

          Works with Podman

    • kadu@scribe.disroot.org
      10·
      4 hours ago

      Immich is self hosted and open source. Do I like FUTO and their tech bro approach to open source? No. But in this case, it doesn’t matter, because it’s not a service, it’s not something like Ente.

      • Zerush@lemmy.ml
        28·
        4 hours ago

        Anyway, currently it’s better to avoid as much US products and change to those from the EU for obvious reasons.

        • itflows@feddit.org
          2·
          29 minutes ago

          What a weird take. It’s not possible to avoid OSS that originated in the US. Also, when do you consider OSS not a “US product”? When a developer from another country contributes?

          I’m all for gaining independence but this is a wrong battle to engage in.

        • 3abas@lemmy.world
          3·
          48 minutes ago

          It’s not a US product, it’s open source. Where the developer lives/their citizenship doesn’t transfer to the free (freedom) software, the software doesn’t benefit American corps or the empire, it helps you escape their grip.

        • enumerator4829@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          7·
          2 hours ago

          Moving people from closed commercial offerings onto something self hosted is enough work without gatekeeping US open source projects, even if they are flawed. If we want to move normal people away from the commercial offerings onto something better, we can’t do things like that. Better save such warnings for when they are actually needed (”Project X has been dead for five years and is full of security holes, you should migrate to project Y instead”). Keep the experience positive regardless.

          You do you, but different people have differing requirements and preferences. Don’t scare them away please.

    • Matt@lemmy.ml
      41·
      3 hours ago

      There is Nextcloud, which can also organise photos for you.

      • pogmommy@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Been using the NextCloud apps Memories & Recognize and have been incredibly happy with them

    • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
      4·
      4 hours ago

      It’s been a while since I tested but the AI person recognition training in Immich was much better than alternatives.

      After labeling a few faces I could easily search through all my folders for pictures where one or multiple people were present. Very handy when you want to create a picture book.

  • Armand1@lemmy.world
    37·
    1 day ago

    Been using it for about 7 months.

    After about 2 months I decided to completely move away from Google Photos and now I only use Immich.

    This was a big move for me. I have over 90 000 photos and 1000 videos totalling over 200GB.

    The performance is great even on spinning rust, though I am running it on a Ryzen 2700X and 32GB RAM. That said it’s only when the machine learning background tasks take off that that CPU horsepower is used. You really don’t need that much. The recommended specs are fairly small.

    Since I first installed it, they’ve added an auto-OCR feature which is a godsend. I can search my entire library for text on a screenshot and it works really well.

    Weirdly, the missing feature that really pissed me off on Google Photos and got me to move over was the lack of the ability to search for images not currently in any album. The search functionality is much better on Immich.

    I think the only feature I’m missing from Google Photos is the non-destructive editor, and that’s coming real soon (the PR is already merged as of last week).

    • Snowcano@startrek.website
      7·
      18 hours ago

      Sorting in Immich needs a lot of work still. The main thing I’m still missing from Google Photos is being able to manually sort images in an album.

  • comrade_twisty@feddit.org
    533·
    1 day ago

    And Apple Photos!

    I finished transferring all my family members from Apple photos/icloud to my NAS (which is mirrored at my brothers place) yesterday.

    All together we will save ~40 USD per month.

    • lionracers@lemmy.zip
      33·
      1 day ago

      What’s your backup solution? That’s a lot of people’s memories you’re taking management of. I hope you have a good online storage solution for backups

      • utopiah@lemmy.ml
        20·
        1 day ago

        I can recommend Storage Box by Hetzner starting at 1TB for ~4EUR/month. Been using it for a year or so.

        • comrade_twisty@feddit.org
          1·
          1 day ago

          Yeah that’s one of the ideas I have in mind. Currently it’s mirrored at my brothers place on his NAS and I am doing regular backups on external SMR usb drives.

          • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            1·
            5 hours ago

            Just FYI, mirrored backups are great as a solution to complete failure, but… File corruption or just accidental deletion can mean you don’t notice files are just straight up missing.

            This is the same problem with cloud storage, but there are solutions like rsync and only backing up the differences that can alert you to large volumes of file changes during the backup.

            • comrade_twisty@feddit.org
              1·
              4 hours ago

              Yeah I need to dig deeper into the best strategies. Regular WORM backups seem to be the industry standard in this regard. So for now my external USB HDD backups once a month seem to be quite good as a start.

              Thanks for your input, I appreciate the advice.

              • doodoo_wizard@lemmy.ml
                1·
                2 hours ago

                Even if you stay with external drive backups, consider a kind of total loss copy.

                You could easily end up being in a fire or some natural disaster and lose both your server and your backups.

                An easy way to add this in your life if you’re already going there is a safe deposit box at the bank. You just gotta remember to take a weekly copy over there for safekeeping.

                • comrade_twisty@feddit.org
                  1·
                  2 hours ago

                  The mirror at my brothers is in another European country 400km away. I think that’s a good protection against natural disasters and fire

      • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
        41·
        20 hours ago

        I don’t know what þey’re using, but I’ve been using B2 and I’m exceedingly happy. I’m using just over 1.6TB and paying just over $6/m. I do incremental restic backups of 6 machines every night. Granted, only a couple have any significant changes every day, but my wife’s and my phones are set up upload photos and videos via PhotoBackup to - in our case - a server running Photoprism. We have photo sync to Google turned off on our devices.

        B2 gets more expensive if you do a lot of reads, but since my use case includes only enough reading for restic to determine incremental diffs, it’s quite cost effective. I’ve done two full restores of a few hundred GB migrating machines from Debian to Arch, and a dozen selective restores of a handful of files via fuse mounting backups, and only þe full restores noticeably impacted my invoice, and it was still only tens of dollars þat monþ.

        I really hope no major controversy comes up around B2, because þey’re one of a very few companies I truly enjoy being a customer of wiþ no reservations.

      • flandish@lemmy.world
        3·
        24 hours ago

        know what sits odd with me - and by “with me” i mean “find odd about myself “ - is that i don’t care. about backups of photos. i can directly tie it to my wife dying when i was 31, and having little digital collection then. so i have this odd “if my cloud dies who cares anyway” feeling i can’t shake. :/

    • Scrollone@feddit.it
      1·
      10 hours ago

      I envy you so much, my OG Pixel broke down some years ago. I cry every time I think about it

      • orosus@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 hours ago

        I use Umbrel OS installed in my Rasperry Pi 4 and with Immich in it. But I don’t have a robust/automatic back up solution, I simply copy the Immich docker container into an external ssd drive quarterly. Any suggestion for automatic backups? I am interested in that mirroring option with a different NAS in a different location, what setup is needed for that?

        • utopiah@lemmy.ml
          1·
          3 hours ago
          • stop the container (safer)
          • scp only its mounted directory once to the target, via ssh key (no password)
          • next time rsync instead to add only the new files, ideally via a crontab script
    • Armand1@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 day ago

      Agreed, but recommended specs are >4GB RAM which should be achievable even with a really old secondhand computer or SBC like a Raspberry Pi.

    • Kristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol
      7·
      1 day ago

      Not sure where you are in the world, but 4tb drives are $80? Which like. $80 is a lot when you ain’t got it, but in computer terms it’s probably the cheapest part in the box

      RAM’s expensive, storage has gotten pretty cheap, at least for HDDs.

    • FoolHen@lemmy.world
      31·
      22 hours ago

      It’s not, it’s funded by FUTO but not developed by them. In fact Immich started development well before being funded by them, and the agreement gives full autonomy of the project to the devs. Here is the announcement

    • ShortN0te@lemmy.ml
      15·
      22 hours ago

      Different to most at least somewhat popular software futo is involved in, immich is foss. It’s AGPL licensed and community driven.

    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
      123·
      21 hours ago

      That seems like a pretty biased article full of opinion, rhetorical framing and axe grinding.

      What is your point? Not the point of the author, they clearly have a viewpoint. I mean why did you think it was relevant that we read what is essentially an opinion piece written like a tabloid article you’d see in a grocery store checkout line?

      Ok, to save the rest of you the headache:

      The author disliked how they were using ‘open source’ in the past. The author notes in the next paragraph that FUTO have addressed this complaint by linking their, multiple, responses and clarifying their position. The author does not mention or even address their current position, outside of name-calling and rhetorical framing in the link text.

      Immediately after, we’re hit with the tl;dr summarizing everything afterward (thank god, because I was already tired of reading by this point). Unfortunately, there is more text.

      The author then takes offense that FUTO claimed to give money to several organization. The scare quotes around “grant” are intended to sow doubt in your mind that the author couldn’t otherwise do with facts, words and explanations. Sarcasm and implied eye rolling are doing a lot of heavy lifting in this next section.

      The first ““grant”” covered, is musl libc and, after after some research it was determined that FUTO, in fact, gave money to musl libc.

      Devastating argument so far, let’s keep going.

      Not deterred, the author quotes some text for people who want musl libc to list them as sponsors. This has nothing to do with FUTO claiming (correctly) that they they gave money to musl libc.

      An example of the difference, in case it isn’t obvious to you, is that I can say I gave money to Doctors without Borders. If I actually gave money to Doctors Without borders then I’m telling the truth. If I want Doctors without Borders to list me as a sponsor on their site and advertising materials then I have to go through a different process. If I don’t go through this process, it doesn’t invalidate my donation.

      In this case FUTO claimed that they gave money to an organization, and the records show that they did in fact give money to the organization. They did not go through the process of asking the organization to officially list FUTO as a sponsor. This is written as if it were an important distinction, but explaining why it is important is beyond the scope of this article, I guess. (I can use sarcasm too!)

      Then the author lists a bunch of other projects many of which FUTO claims to have donated. I have also donated to many of these projects and, much like FUTO, they also don’t list me as a sponsor, hmm curious.

      Undeterred by reality, the author moves on to character assassination.

      Step 1 is to find a bad person, Curtis Yarvin will be the authors choice here. A few quotes to establish their fascist credentials and we’re on to the next step. Step 2 is to find a person from FUTO who has interacted with the bad person. Louis Rossmann once appeared on a show in 2022 and Yarvin was also on that show.

      Through the logical power of guilt by association the author has now demonstrated why Rossmann is also bad. The next bit is to criticize Rossmann’s response. Sure, he may have disagreed with Yarvin during the debate and also afterwards wrote a comment further disagreeing with Yarvin but by simply yeeting the goalposts into the past, the author can attack Rossmann for not doing it sooner.

      The last few paragraphs are trying to make a huge amount of hay out of this appearance. The author bravely takes a stand against fascism and implies that FUTO should reflect on the author’s opinions of fascism (the implication being that they are not and are therefore, possibly who would say?, fascists themselves).

      So, my TL;DR from this article is:

      FUTO is bad because they don’t claim to be open source despite not being open source. They also claimed to give money to organizations that they gave money to.

      To make matters worse, one person who is neither a developer for FUTO or Immich, once went on a YouTube show 4 years ago with a fascist and didn’t disagree with them strongly enough for the authors taste. If FUTO didn’t want to be fascists, which the author never says only strongly implies, then maybe they should have sent Louis Rossmann back in time so that he could have denounced it more eloquently instead of in a follow-up comment.

      As we all know, people who post follow-ups are insincere and should never be trusted.

      In his follow-up, the author notes that FUTO has addressed most of the issues that he complained about. However since FUTO still has not explained why Curtis Yarvin still exists and what they are doing about it, combined with the fact that fascism is bad (Source), implies that they should reflect on the fact that fascism is bad.

      Since this is not happening and FUTO has done nothing about Yarvin still existing I’ll leave the hanging implication that FUTO, fascism and Yarvin are related in some way.

      Fascism.

      THE END