How good is the search in practice? Unsurprisingly, Google Photos is excellent at automatically categorizing photos.
LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative
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#42This looks and feels very promising, nice. Is there any documentation on the difference between this fork and the original project? https://github.com/hooram/ownphotos
Appears there have been a bunch of fixes. There are also 217 forks of OwnPhotos. https://github.com/hooram/ownphotos/compare/dev...LibrePhoto... I don't know if the original repo and LibrePhotos will permanently diverge (that appears to be the intention), but I like you am a bit confused at the necessity for a permanent fork and I'd like to know more too before committing to a version.
My understanding from the reddit post was that it was forked due to the original seemingly being abandoned.
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#43What's the current recommended way of getting your photos out from Google Photos? And I don't mean manually via Google Takeout (that's a dumpster fire and doesn't work most of the time) but I'd like to automate it for periodic backups. You never know when you Google Account might be killed, taking tens of years of pictures and videos with it :(
What’s wrong with google takeout? I’ve transferred everything to iCloud without any issue.
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#44There are two projects I would mention in the same spirit:
- https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism
- https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed
While I think photoprism has a very similar scope, pixelfed has stronger emphasis on federation. The project website gives a nice overview over different providers:
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#45What's the current recommended way of getting your photos out from Google Photos? And I don't mean manually via Google Takeout (that's a dumpster fire and doesn't work most of the time) but I'd like to automate it for periodic backups. You never know when you Google Account might be killed, taking tens of years of pictures and videos with it :(
Why rely on google photos in the first place? If you are taking photos with android devices, you can backup the device folder containing the photos/videos. Also, I just tried google checkout, and it took about 30 seconds to schedule a google photos only every-2-months-for-a-year recurring takeout of my data. We'll see if it actually works...if it does, it isn't so bad.
It's simple to use and cheap. It's like comparing Dropbox and a FTP server.
Also Google Photos has a nice search feature with machine learning behind. I can search things such as "beach name of family member or "classic car" and it works.
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#46Can someone enlighten me on storage? Is it stored on the docker container (locally) or does it allow for storage within say Google Storage or S3, even Backblaze perhaps?
I tried the demo on Firefox but I couldn't actually figure out how to upload an image to test it out. Firefox / Linux user.
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#47How does DropBox handle customer data? Is it protected from any analysis or scanning at least according to the ToS? Or do they also inspect and/or sell my data?
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#48Can someone enlighten me on storage? Is it stored on the docker container (locally) or does it allow for storage within say Google Storage or S3, even Backblaze perhaps? I tried the demo on Firefox but I couldn't actually figure out how to upload an image to test it out. Firefox / Linux user.
I think I'm able to answer this myself. Supports Nextcloud for storage; not sure I'm happy with just that.
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#49> You need a x86 processor and it is recommended to have 8GBs of RAM.
This is a bit much for a home cloud installation, but I could see it becoming what Invidious is to YouTube.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why rely on google photos in the first place? If you are taking photos with android devices, you can backup the device folder containing the photos/videos. Also, I just tried google checkout, and it took about 30 seconds to schedule a google photos only every-2-months-for-a-year recurring takeout of my data. We'll see if it actually works...if it does, it isn't so bad.
It's simple to use and cheap. It's like comparing Dropbox and a FTP server. Also Google Photos has a nice search feature with machine learning behind. I can search things such as "beach name of family member or "classic car" and it works.
It cannot distinguish between two black dogs (different breeds, different sizes) so if I want to filter for pictures of only one of the dogs I’m out of luck.