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The Verge: Google might scan your photos for personalized ads (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 35 points 3 days ago (16 children)

Ugh it's going to be a pain to stop using Google, but it's time. Long gone are the days of "don't be evil"

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  • [–] 17 points 3 days ago (11 children)

    If you're interested in a self-hosted alternative, I can highly recommend immich. The UI is clean and fast (relative to Photoprism), has android and iOS apps, auto phone->server uploading, sharable albums, and more features. I don't know anyone that has been disappointed after switching, and I see why

    The biggest pain if you want to set it up is starting your home server if you don't already have one. Otherwise I found setting up immich itself on a server pretty easy

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  • [–] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

    The only problem with Immich is that it's a fascism-supporting FUTO project. It's excellent software, but don't give them your money, because they'll send it to fascists.

    https://drewdevault.com/blog/Whats-up-with-FUTO/

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    2nd this. Have it on a NAS box and the biggest task was just download and re uploading to Immich. Once on I find the UI pleasant and the face tagging is a nice touch.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Long time PhotoPrism user here, really curious what you find slow or unclean about it? Maybe I should switch.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    I primarily found that when importing photos, it would take Photoprism a long time to generate thumbnails. It was long enough that I would give up on trying to sort through the photos after uploading and come back a few hours later

    Alternatively with Immich, I dumped ~100 Halloween photos taken with my phone and DSLR onto the server. They were already previewable by the time the files were done uploading

    I've already uninstalled Photoprism so I couldn't tell you what my config was. Could have required more tuning; but I'm at a point in life where I'm leaning towards needing things to "just work", than to have to tune things

    Re: Unclean: IIRC, Photoprism gives you a lot of tools and options. More options and features = more stuff on your screen = a more cluttered UI. While I did like the tools, it also made it difficult to share with normies

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Ente worked for me. More pricey, yes. But you do not pay with your data... Also e2e encrypted, good family plans and sharing works good.

    And one of their backup locations is an underground bunker

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    I love Ente, you can have 5 people spread across so it works out cheaper too. So in reality it's like £2/person/month for ~200GB or £1 each for 40GB each.

    I love supporting their cause though.

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