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Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative

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Re: Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative

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Post by darkwater »

vitus wrote: post #193
darkwater wrote: post #157

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That's why I suggested replacing at most 2 disks at the same time. But you could just one extra year and replace all of them one by one. Or you can just use some dumb & cheap storage backend (in the cloud) as an extra backup layer, which you can easily replace at any moment if costs go wild or it goes bankrupt, without having to change the user experience.

Right. It's possible to stagger your replacements so as to avoid bad batches, or even to buy from different vendors for additional diversity (although for SSDs you have much more divergent performance characteristics), but when you're talking about rotating disks one at a time that's a lot of non-negligible overhead. Depending on how much data you have to archive and frequency of access, it may very well be worth the…

Yes, but Glacier won't let you and your family browse easily and nicely photos and video safely stored, as Immich (or similars) does. It's a mix of Capex+opex+user experience+freedom of choice.

And yes, my wife regularly looks at photos from 3,4,5 years ago, or older.

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Post by marwis »

ValentineC wrote: post #202
marwis wrote: post #163

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Takeout fails if you have too many files. I had to takeout few albums at a time which is a PITA. OneDrive ceased to be a good backup alternative when they stripped GPS from all my photos 1-2 years ago. Unlike Google, there's no way to recover original files. They simply destroyed them.

> OneDrive ceased to be a good backup alternative when they stripped GPS from all my photos 1-2 years ago. This is scary. Isn't OneDrive supposed to keep files bit-identical? Or were you using their iOS/Android apps to back up photos, and some bug caused the photos to be backed up without their metadata?

Yes, it is. Although seems only limited to Camera Roll folder. Perhaps this is why Samsung Camera built-in OneDrive integration uses different folder.

Their mobile app is now stripping GPS on upload while files uploaded from desktop are unaffected.

However the files I already had uploaded going back to 2017 were stripped. No idea if this was done server side or by the mobile client but the end effect is the same.

Unlike Google, Microsoft doesn't bother documenting this policy.

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Post by jauntywundrkind »

bo0tzz wrote: post #44
vishnumohandas wrote: post #32

Hey, Ente's CEO here. We had opensourced our server[1] yesterday, which is perhaps why we are on the front page. Stoked to be here Ente had launched on HN[2] a while ago and has been sustainably growing since. We took the feedback from our Show HN seriously and have since - undergone a cryptography audit [3] - published our replication strategy [4] - added requested features (family plans, collaborative albums and li…

This is awesome to see, congratulations from the Immich team on building an amazing app!

I realize it's very hard, but can we maybe reconsider opening the encryption-at-rest feature request? https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/450

Maybe we can give temporary access to processing steps in the pipeline, then have Immich forget the keys after it does the processing?

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Post by f3d46600-b66e »

xrd wrote: post #68
mavamaarten wrote: post #30

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I'm really happy with immich. It's amazing how well everything works and how feature-complete it is given how relatively young the project is and fast-moving development is going. I self-host an instance and do a nightly backup with duplicati to cloud storage. The only downside for me is that there's a new release almost every couple of days, with a message that the backend is out of date. Which is both a pro and a c…

Me too. It is frustrating to see an update to the app and then have the app indicate it is out of date. But generally it still works, and upgrading the server has always been nothing more than changing the docker image tag and restarting. It's an incredible project.

Perhaps you have not noticed release notes. There were bunch of releases where you had to change the docker compose file, and you can't just apply updates automatically to immich.

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Post by f3d46600-b66e »

Jnr wrote: post #171
js4ever wrote: post #117

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I can confirm there is a breaking change literally every single week, check here: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/7405#discus... It's a great software but I would not recommend it at all because of this and the answer from the authors about the issue

I have 600GB of data with 70K+ photos and videos in Immich. I have been using it for some time now, and none of the "breaking changes" broke anything because they have excellent release notes. Worst case - you can restore your postgre backup (which you make, right?) and try again, reading release notes. I make backups and I read release notes, luckily didn't need to do a restore yet.

I have 5TB with a few hundred thousand pics in immich, and unfortunately opening the mobile app is slow (it loads some state from the server and that takes forever...)

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Post by archon810 »

therealmarv wrote: post #77

Ente Auth https://auth.ente.io/ was my go to choice for migrating from Authy. It supports importing and exporting (so no dead end unlike Authy) and I can see the second factor on my desktop without reaching my phone (through Ente Auth website). I've exported from a rooted phone from Authy->Aegis->Ente Auth. I have no need for their main product but they are building amazing software!

There's no landing page to describe what the heck I'm signing up for. This company makes some weird UX decisions.

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Post by jvanderbot »

vishnumohandas wrote: post #32

Hey, Ente's CEO here. We had opensourced our server[1] yesterday, which is perhaps why we are on the front page. Stoked to be here Ente had launched on HN[2] a while ago and has been sustainably growing since. We took the feedback from our Show HN seriously and have since - undergone a cryptography audit [3] - published our replication strategy [4] - added requested features (family plans, collaborative albums and li…

Thank you! I've wanted this for so long. Now that I have it, I'd rather spend money on keeping your company around!

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Post by schnatterer »

robertwt7 wrote: post #25

The best decision for me is still to buy synology and store everything locally on Synology photos. No subscription, expandable storage, and full privacy. It is 100% worth the extra $ if you plan on subscribing for a loong time anyway

One advantage Ente provides to a local NAS is geo redundancy. If your nas gets destroyed eg by fire or water or stolen eg by burglar or even the police your data is gone. Synology offers their convenient C2 service, but IIRC has or had some cryptographic weakness. So I hacked my own solution with rclone and some cheap cloud storage. Well, something like Ente would have been much more convenient.
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