> Now to run algorithms over your photos, all the computation must be done on the edge.
Edge is an overloaded and fuzzy term [0]. It just means "on device" here, right?
[0] https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/serverless/glossary/what...
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#282> Now to run algorithms over your photos, all the computation must be done on the edge. Edge is an overloaded and fuzzy term [0]. It just means "on device" here, right? [0] https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/serverless/glossary/what...
Yes, it means on device.
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#283Immich is agpl and fully open, in case you are looking for that
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#284Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Which is why I mentioned frequency of access. For backup purposes, archival storage might be good enough, but if you're looking for an alternative for frequently accessed content (along the vein of whatever Google Photos replacement) then most clouds will charge you at least an order of magnitude more (even Backblaze would use most of the entire proposed capex budget within a year). But you might still have some valu…
To be fair: my current approach is Immich saving photos on a single external USB SSD disk (1TB) plus daily backup on Backblaze (approx 5$/month). To maintain the same setup on Gphotos I would be paying radically more (obviously now I'm "paying" with the risk of a lower MTBF)
But I want to upgrade to a homemade multi-disks NAS just for the fun.
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#285Earlier quoted context omitted.
IMHO your marketing (incl. the title of this HN post) should more heavily emphasize that this has a native mobile app available in App Stores, that talks to this self-hosted server. There are many other private photo-hosting systems, but most of them are web-only — very few have a good, comfortable native mobile UI that you'd actually want to use! See also: the directory https://github.com/relink2013/Awesome-Self-hos…
The last commit to that directory was 5 years ago. I don't think it's useful.
Alright, maybe they shouldn't bother trying to get listed on there.
But the very fact that the best directory for this kind of thing that I could find, is so spartan and unmaintained, tells you a lot about how rare this combination of features is.
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#286Ente 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!
How does this compare to 2FAS?
2fas desktop extension/app requires you to reach out to your phone (which I do not want to do when on desktop).
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#287Ente 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.
let me quickly google that for you https://ente.io/blog/auth/
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#288Ente 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!
Any reason to go with this over Aegis? It's not clear why I'd even want an account for a 2FA app, it feels like Aegis would be the better choice on that fact alone.
Nothing against Aegis but I want my second factor also visible on the desktop (the second factor is meant to validate you are really you for an online service and is not meant to secure you against a compromised desktop computer)
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#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I don't really get the business model. An open source stack makes sense for products targeted towards programmers. > Most people that back up their pics in ~the cloud~ won't have the technical skills to do self-host Which is why they are offering a managed service as well. Even people with the technical skills are not always inclined to selfhost. > With Dropbox I guess you could accomplish the same, but you'd need…
You're getting butthurt about stuff that's not relevant. The point is the encryption is: 1 - trivial to layer yourself 2 - not a viable business model You just need to look at Signal. It's at the same price ($0) as its competition (not 4x). And messages you can't really encryption yourself. It's still struggling to get a market foothold. Yeah, it'd be great to have Google/Dropbox/etc with privacy. Sure. Nothing wrong…
> 1 - trivial to layer yourself
If you are techy, this is made to be shared with families and friends, which won't do that.
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#290The 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
Sure, when you don't backups and the maintenance that's comes with them into account.
Also accessing a home NAS outside its network is annoying as hell if you don't want to broadcast your home IP to the world or open yourself to attacks in your home network.