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[–] 109 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I got the supporter for free, because I donated to them before they joined FUTO. I donate frequently to opensource projects. This is a good way to say thanks to the devs 😊

Even small donations are fine, so please donate to projects you enjoy 👍🏻

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  • I'll include mine to show that it's not unusual to support them! it's my favorite and most used self hosted project screenshot of Immich supporter tag

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (28 children)

    What is it and what does it do?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    What 2 different media types are you using for the "2" part?

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Why does it need to be two types? Can't I have 2 spinning?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Ente is also open source and can be self-hosted.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I guess they fill different niches. I use Ente for the e2ee, that's pretty important to me. Immich definitely seems more like a drop in Google Photos alternative, I just use software on my computer to do that instead.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    E2EE is definitely important for uploads on someone else's server. On my server? Ehhh, not so much. The entire drive is already encrypted. Another layer of encryption would just slow it down. Just my opinion.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    I would think e2ee would be important if youre uploading files when away from your local network. If that isn't enabled, then it's far less important. At that point, it would only matter if there was a compromised client harvesting your wifi packets.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Immich automatically uploads when I connect to wifi so that's not really a problem. Nor am I personally concerned with someone MITMing my personal photos, I just want them out of corporate silos that use them to exploit me or hand them over to the gov in a dragnet.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Their auth is better than the tool itself (last time I evaluated options which was maybe a year ago)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Oh they update a lot. The clients have gotten really snappy, which is nice because browsing photos felt a bit cumbersome before. There's now automatic albums and facial recognition, if you opt in to that. Was going to say that there's no editing tool but there is. It's quite basic though, three tabs, crop, transform (rotate, flip, resize), and colours (brightness, contrast, saturation, and blur for some reason lmao).

    There's also a bunch of sharing features. You could share images or albums directly, or even create embeds for if you have a portfolio website. I pretty much only use it as a backup service though.

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    [–] 81 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (23 children)

    Seriously everyone pushes Immich so hard I'm a little suspicious of it now :D

    Edit: all right, all right, I installed it. It has a thing about not uploading all the pictures I give it, some error out. I have a feeling it is due to the library being on a NAS share.

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    83k Github stars in under 4 years is definitely indicative of an excellent project

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  • [+] -17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Github stars are indicative of nothing

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Correct: it's like trying to equate "correct" with "popular", and keeping in mind how the last US elections have turned out.

    But it's good to be in a big network of other users with the same product, nonetheless.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Thousands of them are indicative

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    It's crazy good for something FREE. Like infinitely better than any major crop google apple etc because you KEEP your photos. Anything you upload to the cloud is being mined by them.

    The only thing I tell people is that you need a cloud backup.

    I have an automated nightly worker that zips all my photos encrypts them with a 32 character password and then uploads it to a bulk storage facility.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I do something similar using restic to encrypt, deduplicate, and backup my photos to backblaze every now and then. Out of curiosity, any particular reason you choose zip over something like restic?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    and then uploads it to a bulk storage facility.

    Any suggestions and estimate pricing?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I found it a couple of months ago without hearing about it before. I was in an ideal place for a Google Photos replacement.

    There's a couple of rough edges but it is, indeed, best-of-class.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    As a newbie in selfhosting, Immich is what I use almost every day. And it is so good. A literal Google Photos but it's my own. Snappy web app and android app. Has epic face recognition, contextual search and now even text recognition. All that on an efficient and not so powerful N100 cpu. I can totally see why community loves it.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Hmm. While I applaud Immich for existing at all, it kind of feels developed with not me as a user in mind. I have Terabytes of pictures I have taken over the couple of decades of my adult life. They are all neatly organized in folders on my NAS. There is no easy way to just tell Immich "oy, that folder structure? Turn it into albums" I am never going to manually put my 400k+ images into albums. And the folder view in the Android app is behind too many clicks to make it any fun using it.

    I guess I have to wrangle with the CLI or something to turn my folders into albums.

    But... why??? People use existing file structures. Make it easy for those to integrate into your app.

    Nothing of the sort on the roadmap either. Unless integrating folder structures into Immich albums gets more user friendly, I am reluctant to support the devs.

    I'll probably do it anyway because as I said, I'm glad the project exists.

    Thanks.

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  • Yeah, ideally something like Immich is just some metadata pointing at existing files. An album should be some combination of synced directories (i.e. new files added outside Immich should be detected and added, if selected) and individual files.

    That doesn't sound that complex. Maybe I'll look into Immich and see about adding that. I don't currently use it, but I don't have an image solution, so I'll give it a shot.

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