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[–] limit 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me all I really need in a photos app is reliable backup from my phone to my nas. My wife on the other hand, she takes lots of photos that she likes to organize into albums and share with family, so she's really the deciding factor, i don't think she really need the facial recognition, it may be useful but really it's just being able to make albums, sort by month or year, share content, that kind of stuff.

[–] limit 3 points 1 year ago

Trying to move all my data out of big cloud providers. I moved to synology when Google started to limit photo storage. Don't want amazon to have my data either. And I'm not too thrilled with the direction synology is going trying to force proprietary drives on there customers so once again I'm going to move back to self hosted non proprietary solutions.

[–] limit 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you own a domain name you can use DNS challenge for obtaining the ssl cert, no need to open ports to get a cert issued. Nginx proxy manager has this feature built in and has support for many DNS name registrars.

[–] limit 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Do you feel immich is mature enough to be a primary photos app? I may go the route of nextcloud as I'm planning to migrate to nextcloud from synology drive. Didn't realize they had a photos backup app ad well.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by limit to c/selfhosted
 

Looking for an alternative to synology photos. I moved over to synology about 3 years ago and am now considering moving out of the synology ecosystem. I'm looking for something that has a decent android app, wifi syncing, shareable albums, all the standard stuff.

Edit: thanks for the many replies, I'll likely move to nextcloud as I was planning on deploying that anyway as a synology drive replacement. I'll look into immich as well.

[–] limit 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As I move to more self hosting, it's becoming more and more important to create a "what to do if I die" procedure for my wife (or even children) to follow. I mean it's not big deal if the plex server goes down and doesn't come back up, I'm thinking more along the lines of all of our photos, important documents, password manager, those type of things. I have 3 - 2 - 1 backups for the important stuff and have tested them, but that means nothing to my wife if I wasn't around to get that stuff back if something happened.. I wonder some days if I should document it all and put a print out with a step by step guide on how to get everything back that a semi tech savvy person could follow.

[–] limit 5 points 1 year ago

This is pathetic.

[–] limit 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dude, the 80s wasn't 40 years ago...

Damn I got old..

[–] limit 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I known this us a few days old but just wanted to chime in. I've been enjoying the "1 liter/mini pc" trend in home lab/server lately. I got myself a couple of hp elitedesk mini 600 g4's for $120 each on ebay, they have an 8th gen intel i5 and support quicksync. If you're patient you can find similar mini pcs for around the $100 price range, they're generally cheaper than nuc or nuc clones and since they're big name brands (hp, lenovo, Dell, etc all have a version of them) you can find parts for them easily on the used market.

[–] limit 2 points 1 year ago

I just use Google keep to note when I do maintenance and I tag it as vehicle maintenance. If I need to know when I rotated the tires I can just look through everything in that tag to see. For things that I want to keep a receipt record of I scan the receipt and put it in a folder for the vehicle labeled something like "oil change engine air filter 34k miles" and save it on my nas(would work with drive/dropbox/one drive too)

[–] limit 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For home lab/hosting you can get really good performance out of used/refurbished mini pcs, look for something like hp mini 400 g4. They can be found for around $100 to $150 on ebay. They generally fit a 2.5 inch ssd drive as well as 1 or sometimes two m.2 ssd drives. I find that intel nucs are pretty expensive compared to the specs, like you're paying a premium for the brand and form factor since it's a bit of a niche market. These mini pc's are more business office oriented and are way more accessible at a lower price.

I realize you're asking about storage, you could go the route of turning that old server into just a dedicated nas and use other hardware for your services/compute.

[–] limit 1 points 1 year ago

That's like the old "internet explorer, #1 browser... to download other browsers"

[–] limit 12 points 1 year ago

Connect for lemmy has a pretty nice clean look that can be customized to look a lot like RIF. Been enjoying it so far.

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