My favorite feature is being able to setup a container on my Linux desktop that has a GPU access and can run ML workloads for image processing whenever I turn the computer on, as my NAS (where Immich resides) is a low power machine without a dedicated GPU. They even have ROCM support, so it works even without an Nvidia GPU. Being able to spread such workloads over your local network feels like a magic that has been forgotten in an era of blackbox cloud providers.
Okay, sold. This is also my setup and I was being held back by thinking that the experience would be bad due to it. But this will work for me!
Some people have instead set Photos app on a Mac to download original photos from the iCloud library and then moved the files directly into the server. I have not personally tried this method though.
When I checked half a year ago memories (with the nc ecosystem) was still ahead in terms of features (gallery specific), albeit object tagging is rather crap in nc (faces better)
All turned out to be essential in my photo archives, especially as I started scanning old pictures. You get the front and back side of a photo, or you scan a large-format drawing in 16 scans and store them alongside the merged one, etc.
Aperture used to handle it pretty well, but Apple dropped it. I learned my lesson, and now I'll be doing things differently.
Anyone have info on this vs Immich? I just got my Syn so been trying their native app which seems fine so far but not sure what I’m missing.
If someone wants something I email it to them or upload it to a directory on a web server and send them the link. If I want something on my phone I’ll zap it over with localsend.
Photography is a hobby for me and I have a large family so I have a lot of photos. And a lot of editing to do. Currently moving from Lightroom to Darktable because again Lightroom tries to hammer me with library management and lock me into things.
I not only urge you to try it, but to buy the "supporter" pack, Immich really deserves it.
But when you search for brown dog it'll bring back different coloured goats, horses and cows too. This is a problem in a large library.
"give me all files with a location in Chicago"
I'd recommend you try Immich (there's a docker compose version) and if you don't like it, you can just remove it and move on.
Mine is something like "Album_Name/YEAR/MONTH/day-hour-minute-sec.jpg".
I lose no sleep.
The funnest part of coming home is what everyone prints when we get back.