storageiscool

Re:I Ditched Google Photos on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @11:37AM (#37309501)

I was quite impressed by Immich’s ML and search features. They generate embeddings from your pictures and search works across them so you can do things like search for objects in the picture.

It also has map+time features. I’d give it a try if you haven’t already. It’s under active development atm

Re:I Ditched Google Photos on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @11:33AM (#37309453)

Ownership of data and monthly recurring costs.

You’re right about the offsite backup. I follow the 3-2-1 backup strategy and upload to AWS Glacier cold storage as my offsite. It’s cheap and I can switch/turn it off if costs change. My NAS remains as the hot storage.

I Ditched Google Photos

Posted by storageiscool on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @02:08AM
from the self-post dept.

Hi Hacker News!I've been tinkering with a setup at home for replacing Google Photos. I few months ago I felt comfortable ditching it now with my TrueNAS and Immich setup.My first machine was a FreeNAS (before TrueNAS lol) box I had bought several years ago which came pre-built and installed with FreeNAS. Suffice to say, it was easy to get started and I configured it to my liking at the time....

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