There's a photo of the back of the case here, which describes how to use it: https://immich.store/products/immich-retro

So it sounds like it's a bootable Linux image, with Immich already set up on it.

They have a PeerTube instance but they don't mirror it. They must be uploading them manually for some reason, so they're delayed.

My phone

This image is hilariously unhelpful 😂 but we can work it out.

Apparently I have a database issue. It tries two photos and both fail with a foreign key error and then the process stops. I had deleted both photos it initially complained about, but then it complained about the next two. I fear I'm going to have to reinstall.

If they’re like me, I get the why.

When I started out, docker just seemed like more of a complication. I wanted to just run things on the local system without having to learn something else.

Docker makes it nice in that there are no dependencies conflicts and things just work. Plus, removal is easy an leaves no trace.