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Had gazillion copies of folders and iphoto libraries in various backups, but since i moved to linux as daily driver was on the hunt for a good photo archiver. Just recently started using Immich. Tried Photoprism too which would have also fit my need well, but somehow Immich won the coin toss ! (After many years was able to pull that one pic my wife was after from my archive !). My all those duplicates have been now been pulled and deduped and condensed into an immich library.

I used to want people to send me full res pics by email to preserve location and find my people easily, but Immich does such a good job with face identification that i stopped worring about what people send me over whatsapp (at least I can find all photos of any one person going back to the first pic i have with them !, my own pics are always geotagged).

Regardless of cloud versions for sharing i need my own local backup. i run immich in docker on Ubuntu, 2 mirrored ZFS drives for redundancy and backed up to rsync.net via restic. (rsync.net i need anyways to back up other data).

Have to try the mobile app still, want to end up with a low res version of my entire library (about 1 TB) on my mobile, face tagged for easy sharing ! Thats next on the list to complete my personal photo management endeavour !

> macOS arm64 is the primary platform; Linux and Windows binaries build by cross-compilation

wish it was the other way around

Re:Stinkpot: SQLite-Backed Shell History on Sunday July 26, 2026 @04:52AM (#49056061)
created this gnome-extension to launch a gnome terminal with separate history files. bash script gt.sh [projname] launches a gnome-terminal with a history file in ~/.histories/projname

(https://github.com/appsmatics/gtsh-hist)

not zsh .. plugging my bash script [1] (and gnome task bar UI) - to start a gnome terminal with a different named history file. [1]: https://github.com/appsmatics/gtsh-hist
Re:I'm returning my Framework 16 on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @04:40PM (#46379543)
I have a FW13, 3 yrs old, battery was getting weak, i just ordered one from FW and popped out the old one and put in a new one. Same for SSD and memory. This alone makes me stay with FW.
Are many of the packages obfuscated? Seems like here the server url was heavily obfuscated and encrypted, that is a big warning flag is it not. Auto scanning a submitted package and flagging off obfuscated / binary payloads / install scripts for further inspection could help. Am wondering how such packages get automatically promoted for distribution ..
Re:GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack on Friday November 28, 2025 @08:01AM (#46078274)
pardon the naive question. What i don't get is these injected payload are js files, isn't there some scanning at npm upload level to look for exfiltration behaviour, bash executions of dangerous commands like rm or shred ?
Re:AI World Clocks on Friday November 14, 2025 @07:56PM (#45934073)
.. would you mind sharing the prompt .. in a gist perhaps .
.. did exactly that and also changed the BINDIR and LIBDIR to another location. BTW, amazing project from initial glance. Will give it a detailed look this weekend!
Re:Show HN: Free, 100% in browser PDF editor on Saturday May 03, 2025 @09:25PM (#43883738)
Really neat. i tried a couple and it worked fine for my use case which is mainly adding a signature .. Any chance the signature size can be adjusted by dragging a corner ?
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025) on Monday April 28, 2025 @01:41PM (#43824000)
Hey cool will see how much more it is from what I have. (Ubuntu/bash only atm) .. https://github.com/appsmatics/linux-setup
Re:Trick to find commands in the terminal quickly on Sunday February 16, 2025 @05:03PM (#43072169)
.. have added a gist in comments below, i got used to saving separate history files for each project and launch gnome-terminal with that .. and Ctrl-R within that scope
Re:Trick to find commands in the terminal quickly on Sunday February 16, 2025 @04:53PM (#43072085)
.. another cheap trick .. when juggling different projects i keep a separate history file for each under ~/.histories/ .. shameless plug to my gist .. bash script that launches gnome-terminal with a named history file ..

https://gist.github.com/appsmatics/ff27e885460bd345eabe1c5f7...

Re:Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4B Bid for Control of OpenAI on Monday February 10, 2025 @06:36PM (#43006720)
Sam could reply with Elon Skum !
Re:Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite on Monday December 30, 2024 @12:24PM (#42551353)
Big fan of Sqlite and DRH. Wondering what the succession plan for sqlite is ? May DRH live long and prosper though !
There was a guy who collected tanks ! Had his collection up top of Portola Valley. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Vehicle_Technology_Fo...]
Re:OpenAI to Become For-Profit Company on Thursday September 26, 2024 @10:40AM (#41658944)
Can they at least change the name to from OpenAI to something else, and leave gutted OpenAI as the non-profit shell..
Re:Alaska CEO: We found many loose bolts on our Max planes on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @08:14AM (#39116870)
As the saying goes .. Vertrauen ist gut, aber Kontrolle ist besser! (Trust is good but verifying is better!)
.. same here FW13 12gen .. fast battery drain even in sleep mode. It is reported due to the expansion cards that I guess cannot be turned off ?
Re:I quit my job to work full time on my open source project on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @01:53PM (#38941811)
.. i replied to the main thread, if you want give my bash script a try. each project history is in its own named file .. https://gist.github.com/appsmatics/ff27e885460bd345eabe1c5f7...
Re:I quit my job to work full time on my open source project on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @01:41PM (#38941710)
Not the amazing utility Atuin is .. but have been using this tiny bash script to manage named history files that i find pretty useful when juggling between projects. Have to try out Atuin and see if it is easier to use. .. sharing the gist .. https://gist.github.com/appsmatics/ff27e885460bd345eabe1c5f7...
Re:Linux hits nearly 4% desktop user share on Statcounter on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @10:00AM (#38854823)
Hope it is the inflexion point ! moved to Linux (Ubuntu on Framework-13) since Nov 2022, not going back into walled gardens !
Re:Fourteen Years of Go on Saturday November 11, 2023 @11:52AM (#38231953)
Touche. Got into Wails/Go recently for a desktop app. Everything fell in place in a short time. Even the junior contractor offshore with zero experience is able to contribute! (thanks to Wails also here .. using Svelte for the frontend .. love the lightning fast builds)
.. possibly a battery swap, a domestic setting getting to those MWs is out of the question. a 200 amp circuit in US at 220v is just about 44KW ..
.. can't those old accounts be flagged to require email verification to log in ?
.. wrote a simple script to maintain a different history per gnome-terminal. Not 100% mine, but extended it to a point where it is working great for me!

https://askubuntu.com/a/1458448/1679924

Congratulations on this and pretty cool design. I just got the map:clock for ios which shows a map with different city times. One feature in that is to be able to do what if .. a slider to modify the times and see the time at different locations. A slider or rotary dial to change the times would be a good feature for planning. Bookmarked ur clock !

Feature requests if i may pls ! 1) Adjust the time with a slider or dial 2) Put the second hand outside the dial 3) Same for min hand or show hide the min hand -Merci!

Cool. Will definitely check it out. Just moved everday usage to linux (Framework ftw!) and have been collating all notes / ideas from Evernote, Notes app, misc files into md ! So much more flexible and now lock in !!
Re:Offline map test on Apple Watch Ultra for hiking on Monday September 26, 2022 @01:40AM (#32979785)
thought Alltrails does ! its not automatic, but one can download for select routes .. oh must be a paid feature ..

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