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Re: Immich 3.0

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There's a lot of things I spent a ton of time setting up, use once, and then never again. Tons of things that are easy to set up, and provide small benefits every day for a long time. Immich has got to be the thing that I've spent ages setting up, use extremely infrequently but the one time a year I use it I'm so happy I did. Great software.

Re: Immich 3.0

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post #2

There's a lot of things I spent a ton of time setting up, use once, and then never again. Tons of things that are easy to set up, and provide small benefits every day for a long time. Immich has got to be the thing that I've spent ages setting up, use extremely infrequently but the one time a year I use it I'm so happy I did. Great software.

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Re: Immich 3.0

#4
I don't want yet another self hosted service to manage (update, backups, possible hardware failures, energy costs, ups, etc.).

Unfortunately Immich is not end-to-end encrypted. If that would have be the case i'd use https://pixelunion.eu/

Seems like a great app though. So... i'm still pondering what to do :-)

Re: Immich 3.0

#5
Does Immich support read-only source folders yet? I'd like to keep the original files intact, but allow Immich to index them.

Re: Immich 3.0

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post #4

I don't want yet another self hosted service to manage (update, backups, possible hardware failures, energy costs, ups, etc.). Unfortunately Immich is not end-to-end encrypted. If that would have be the case i'd use https://pixelunion.eu/ Seems like a great app though. So... i'm still pondering what to do :-)

Okay? So don't use it, use a managed service like Google Photos, Apple Photos, Dropbox, etc where your photos and files might be arbitrarily removed or your access to them limited while they are scanned for disavowed content.

You can also just use a secure transport layer (like WireGuard or a VPN) instead of relying on every project to implement end-to-end encryption.

Re: Immich 3.0

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post #4

I don't want yet another self hosted service to manage (update, backups, possible hardware failures, energy costs, ups, etc.). Unfortunately Immich is not end-to-end encrypted. If that would have be the case i'd use https://pixelunion.eu/ Seems like a great app though. So... i'm still pondering what to do :-)

VPN (or other) Tunnel.

That's the objective answer. There's no mystery here. That's exactly how you get what you want and it's not too hard. Not trying to dunk on you or anyone one but this is an easily solved problem, and I think I want to highlight it like this to make sure everyone understands.

Anything web/internet/network service thing, you can add this on. This composability is important to remember in software, this even goes back to "The Unix Way" type stuff.

Re: Immich 3.0

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post #5

Does Immich support read-only source folders yet? I'd like to keep the original files intact, but allow Immich to index them.

Yes, at least for a year. There is a ”external library” feature, I think that does what you want.

Re: Immich 3.0

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post #4

I don't want yet another self hosted service to manage (update, backups, possible hardware failures, energy costs, ups, etc.). Unfortunately Immich is not end-to-end encrypted. If that would have be the case i'd use https://pixelunion.eu/ Seems like a great app though. So... i'm still pondering what to do :-)

You can use https://ente.com/ (it's open-source). It also makes the seemingly much better decision of storing photos in S3.

Re: Immich 3.0

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post #5

Does Immich support read-only source folders yet? I'd like to keep the original files intact, but allow Immich to index them.

Yes, at least for a year. There is a ”external library” feature, I think that does what you want.

Thank you! That was not available the last time I checked.
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