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s03nk3 wrote 39 min ago:
Storing in EXIF seemed also the go-to solution for me.
Until I ran into deduplication and backup management problems due to
the changed files.
jwr wrote 43 min ago:
Relying on EXIF is a good thing. But if you limit yourself to ONLY
using EXIF, you can't group images, make one image in a group the
primary image, assign common metadata to the entire group, etc.
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.
brador wrote 1 hour 11 min ago:
Photo printer in the second study anyone can connect to and a 100+
stack of photo paper and some photo album holders. Done.
I lose no sleep.
The funnest part of coming home is what everyone prints when we get
back.
code_biologist wrote 49 min ago:
Lovely idea. You got a photo printer model you like? I've been
meaning to get a photo printer, but I'm scarred by experiences with
inkjets back in the day.
hypercube33 wrote 8 min ago:
If they are printing 100 or more prints a month even they are
probably absolutely fine - inkjets die when not used because ink
dries on the jets or other places.
shantara wrote 2 hours 1 min ago:
I migrated from Apple Photos to Immich a couple of months ago, removing
the iCloud subscription, and couldnât be happier. It was the most
hassle free piece of self-hosted software Iâve had so far. Very easy
to install and everything just works. Context and OCR search are
amazing. Mobile apps could be better, but they are constantly being
improved.
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.
solarkraft wrote 1 hour 24 min ago:
> 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
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!
bjackman wrote 1 hour 51 min ago:
I have a PiKVM attached to my PC at home, so at some point I'm
thinking of setting up a crazy demand-scaling scheme where when my
underpowered homelab nodes can power up the PC when they need to run
a heavy workload.
shantara wrote 1 hour 34 min ago:
This sounds like a fun idea to explore!
jacomoRodriguez wrote 2 hours 24 min ago:
Habe you tried nextcloud + memories app?
Every metadata is stored in EXIF and the directory structure on disk
defines the directory structure in the app (and vice versa).
When you want to move your tooling or just do things manual again, grab
the disk and your are ready.
redrblackr wrote 1 hour 48 min ago:
People are really sleeping on nc memories, does all the good things
but none of the "I decide how your images are stored and nothing else
should touch them" that immich does.
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)
savolai wrote 2 hours 52 min ago:
Elodie makes a copy of all my images initially? Is the recommenddd
route then to delete the files in original location? Seems unclear at
first read.
dgxyz wrote 3 hours 2 min ago:
After going through 25 years of changing software every few years on
this front I canât be bothered. Files on disk. Nothing over the top.
Immich is just another thing to maintain. Another problem which will
result in a wholesale migration down the line.
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 Iâll 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.
vr46 wrote 1 hour 20 min ago:
That's cool, but when a friend died last summer, Immich allowed me to
find all the digital photos I had of him, even out of focus in the
background. I get many requests from friends for old pictures, "do
you remember that night when we all did a group photo, etc etc?" and
the search facility in Immich allowed me to in a minute what
sometimes took years to find, when scouring folders in spare time.
stavros wrote 2 hours 28 min ago:
For me, there's nothing like being able to search for "brown dog" and
get all the photos of my dog back. Not to mention all the other
things Immich has that make managing a library pleasant.
I not only urge you to try it, but to buy the "supporter" pack,
Immich really deserves it.
butvacuum wrote 4 min ago:
digikam does this as well, supposedly.
dgxyz wrote 2 hours 26 min ago:
I had a bunch of photos in Apple Photos which did that sort of
thing. As a library management tool it's probably the best out
there.
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.
cyberax wrote 2 hours 39 min ago:
Immich stores images in a configurable folder structure. That you can
_change_ at any moment, and Immich will happily rearrange the files
accordingly.
Mine is something like
"Album_Name/YEAR/MONTH/day-hour-minute-sec.jpg".
ghgr wrote 2 hours 55 min ago:
I'm like you, and a big fan of Pigallery2 precisely for its
simplicity. But it turns out that Immich does support external
libraries, so you can keep your manual file management in your
filesystem and still use Immich for efficient indexing, face
recognition, quick picture retrieval by year, location, people etc...
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.
internet_points wrote 2 hours 55 min ago:
Same here, although one thing that's difficult with this is things
like finding "that one photo we took 5 years ago which grandma used
as a phone background". So now I gotta find the right external hard
drive to plug in and fortunately the folders are by date but still
it's a drag. So I'm considering looking into immich if it can just
function as a server that shows thumbnails on some terabytes of
date-sorted photos and videoes, no need for the machine learning
stuff. Though I feel like there must be a less "heavy" solution than
immich for this.
dgxyz wrote 2 hours 30 min ago:
We really need an OS with a metadata capture and indexing system
that isn't crap. Exif is metadata.
"give me all files with a location in Chicago"
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