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Re: Immich 3.0

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Post by ravenstine »

jrm4 wrote: post #7
DavideNL wrote: 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…

It's also a kind of funny thing how HN has the attitude of "never implement your own encrypted anything" but then demand their apps build in e2e encryption. It may be one abstraction higher, but it's still fundamentally the same problem. With the unfortunate exception of web browsers, if I'm going to use something that performs encryption, then I want encryption to be the only job it has.

Re: Immich 3.0

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Post by gonzalohm »

fragmede wrote: post #17
gonzalohm wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The point of Immich is self hosting. Using AWS defeats that purpose

Perfect is the enemy of the good. While there's an ideal case where you're hosting it on a box in your house, that's not for everybody. So while hosting it on AWS doesn't remove every dependency on big tech, at least it's not a full on Google hosted SaaS product.

I think "perfect is the enemy of good" is actually an argument against AWS integration. Using S3 as a backend is a lot more complex than using local storage so it would take a lot more time to implement, that's why local storage is good enough

Re: Immich 3.0

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Post by gonzalohm »

jasonvorhe wrote: post #20
gonzalohm wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The point of Immich is self hosting. Using AWS defeats that purpose

S3 has many open implementations you can self host. Some are quite lean even. Unless you need really complex IAM stuff it's a solid and rather simple experience to run it.

Yeah but Immich provides a lot more features than just storage

Re: Immich 3.0

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Post by brewtide »

Does anyone have any pointers on the best way to import roughly 14 Google takeout chunks into immich?

I've downloaded all the chunks once, only to find them corrupted due to... Their 50gb size and using a browser in theory. One also cannot seem to use wget or alternatives because of the auth / session cookies required via Google takeout.

I've yet to even broach the aspect of importing each giant bundle into immich because I've not had success in even grabbing the takeout files correctly, but would LOVE pointers on the best way of importing the roughly 700gb into the database without it ALL going wrong.

I've had great success with immich running in docker for the past year or so, although I have yet to upgrade to the newest version. Google photos backups have been disabled on my phone for a year or so, but I yet to haul in all of the past years.

Also, anyone know if I can get immich to upload the photos without... Running immich once in a while? Would be great if it just automatically sent them to "my cloud".

Great software.

Re: Immich 3.0

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Post by altran1502 »

brewtide wrote: post #24

Does anyone have any pointers on the best way to import roughly 14 Google takeout chunks into immich? I've downloaded all the chunks once, only to find them corrupted due to... Their 50gb size and using a browser in theory. One also cannot seem to use wget or alternatives because of the auth / session cookies required via Google takeout. I've yet to even broach the aspect of importing each giant bundle into immich be…

You can use this tool to get them into Immich, it will parse all the metadata and recreate albums as you have in GPhotos https://github.com/simulot/immich-go

Re: Immich 3.0

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Post by Cider9986 »

When I was switching to GrapheneOS from iOS, I decided to self host my photos. I considered Immich, but I settled on Ente because of the encryption. Ente Photos is extremely polished and it's comparable quality to Apple photos.

It's cool they keep the server open and selfhostable instead of only open clients like many e2ee projects do.

I like how you can share an album and anyone can contribute to it without an account. Another cool feature is that you can select photos to lock when you hand your phone to somebody so they can only see the ones you selected without your device unlock.

Re: Immich 3.0

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Post by etnoy »

brewtide wrote: post #24

Does anyone have any pointers on the best way to import roughly 14 Google takeout chunks into immich? I've downloaded all the chunks once, only to find them corrupted due to... Their 50gb size and using a browser in theory. One also cannot seem to use wget or alternatives because of the auth / session cookies required via Google takeout. I've yet to even broach the aspect of importing each giant bundle into immich be…

immich-go has what you need

Re: Immich 3.0

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Post by FabCH »

DavideNL wrote: 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 :-)

What do you mean Immich is not end-to-end encrypted? You control both ends, you can encrypt it any way you want…

Re: Immich 3.0

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Post by etnoy »

mopsi wrote: 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, using external libraries. It's been a feature for several years. Make it read-only by mounting docker compose read only

Re: Immich 3.0

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Post by kristopolous »

Cider9986 wrote: post #26

When I was switching to GrapheneOS from iOS, I decided to self host my photos. I considered Immich, but I settled on Ente because of the encryption. Ente Photos is extremely polished and it's comparable quality to Apple photos. It's cool they keep the server open and selfhostable instead of only open clients like many e2ee projects do. I like how you can share an album and anyone can contribute to it without an accou…

for people wondering:

"Ente Photos is a paid service, but we offer 10GB of free storage. You can also >>clone this repository and choose to self-hostSo both forms...

https://github.com/ente/ente

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