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Re: Immich 3.0

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Is there any side effects of leaving the phone connected to Tailscale VPN all day?

If Tailscale is on, I can't concurrently run a DNS-blocking local VPN, so I see ads in mobile Chrome.

Could host it in the tailnet?

Re: Immich 3.0

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Immich is such a no-brainer replacement for Apple Photos or Google Photos, combined with VPN like Tailscale, it's almost a drop in replacement

Beware that migrating back from Immich to iCloud/Google is not something Immich cares about. There is no "download all" anywhere, best way is to go to the server and get raw files from there. https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/14365

what do you mean download all? its your server over your files. If you want them, go get them! Or just point google / apple / whatever upload at your library directory.

Re: Immich 3.0

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Immich is such a no-brainer replacement for Apple Photos or Google Photos, combined with VPN like Tailscale, it's almost a drop in replacement

I only wish it would support nested albums (or albums in folders) so it could be an easy replacement for lightroom cloud as well.

I have all of my photos organized like this: `events -> year/month - holiday -> (album_1, ...)`. and: `home town -> year -> (album_1, ...)`. Photos will be in multiple albums, and there will be edits as well. And I need to track the picked/rejected state as well (and filter on it).

Only reason I haven't moved over to Immich yet is because I am struggling to map my photo organization onto it's way of doing things in a way that's nice. So far my attempts have been unwieldy.

Re: Immich 3.0

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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…

Ente Auth is also the best, because it works on any device, including the one you're trying to access (maybe it defeats the purpose of 2FA but sometimes I don't care).

Ente is a cool company, all their products feel polished and I like their marketing mascots.

Re: Immich 3.0

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Is there any side effects of leaving the phone connected to Tailscale VPN all day?

If Tailscale is on, I can't concurrently run a DNS-blocking local VPN, so I see ads in mobile Chrome.

I use nextdns with tailscale.

https://tailscale.com/docs/integrations/nextdns

Re: Immich 3.0

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Immich is such a no-brainer replacement for Apple Photos or Google Photos, combined with VPN like Tailscale, it's almost a drop in replacement

Is there any side effects of leaving the phone connected to Tailscale VPN all day?

Could impact battery usage, possibly?

But the way I do access Immich externally is not with Tailscale directly on my phone but involves exposing a caddy instance, running on a $1 VPS, to the internet.

If requests include a specific very long header (which I randomly made up), it then forwards those requests to my real Immich instance, which runs on my NAS. Headers can be configured within the mobile app. It has worked really well for me so far.

Re: Immich 3.0

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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…

I got into Ente because I wanted to create photo upload links on a per-even basis - I can tell all my friends, if you take pics or video tonight, upload it at this URL - and it just works. No app necessary, very simple, very cheap. Then from there, I got the photo backup / archive service because why not.

They really are pretty much just what they appear to be. Im a fan.

Re: Immich 3.0

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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…

I got into Ente because I wanted to create photo upload links on a per-even basis - I can tell all my friends, if you take pics or video tonight, upload it at this URL - and it just works. No app necessary, very simple, very cheap. Then from there, I got the photo backup / archive service because why not. They really are pretty much just what they appear to be. Im a fan.

For what it's worth, Immich supports this too. You can create an album (for each event), create a shared link, allow public anonymous uploads for the shared link, and then give the link to everyone at the event, and ask them to upload their photos. It can be done from any web browser.

Re: Immich 3.0

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Immich is such a no-brainer replacement for Apple Photos or Google Photos, combined with VPN like Tailscale, it's almost a drop in replacement

Are there any side effects of leaving Immich public? I think people overestimate the risks. Just update your stuff regularly, follow simple rules, and set up something like CrowdSec. I know it's simpler to just use Tailscale and similar tools, but recently I see the trend that people don't even consider otherwise.
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