Immich is dead-easy to set up on its own. I’m a great fan and have been running it for >2 years now.

That said, I don’t think it’ll work for you because:

• I gather you have little experience in self-hosting services. Sure, one can learn all that, but if you’re becoming a parent soon, your priorities will be elsewhere (as they should).
• self-hosting stuff isn’t a one-shot - it does come with maintenance costs. You need to keep your boxes up to date, swap out dead hardware, manage backups… You may not have time for that.
• Running immich itself is relatively easy. But running it securely is a different can of worms. Immich is a young project, written by enthusiasts, but not vetted for security like professionally-deployed software is. Thus, it’s not advisable to expose it to the open internet. Since you want to share access to others, you’d have to setup Wireguard VPN tunnels for your relatives, which complicates matters.

Obviously, I’m making a lot of assumptions about you. Whether these are true is up for you to decide.

Great, I’ll probably do just that this summer. Thanks for the info!

I’ve got a second deployment of immich that also got stuck somewhere on v1.x. May I ask how you upgraded to the most recent version? Did you just go for 3.0, or did you do “baby steps” in between? (e.g. 1.138 > 2.0 > 3.0)

Obnoxious Windows 10 “upgrade” nag screens on Win 7. If you think you can push me, I’ll push back harder. That, and Snowden showing the world that American tech is backdoored all the way to hell and back.

I do still read the changelogs and compare compose files thoroughly on every major update. With that in place, Immich has not once broken down on me, and I’ve been here from almost the very start.

Like showing up to the bank heist in a neon pink monster truck.

Man, your basement has the weirdest carpet I’ve ever seen. Also, much too bright for my taste. If you can see the keycaps without backlight, you’re doing the lighting wrong.

unless you rip the movie out into a single file first

I don’t see the problem with that. It’s what I’ve done with every single disk I own. Why would I bother with badly-written menus, pointless extra content and tons of ads and copyright warnings I need to sit through before I can watch what I paid for?

You patched the annoying “crash-on-start” bug! 😍 I was collecting diagnostics to help nail it down, but you guys were faster. Keep up the great work! 👍👍👍

Leave the poor Russian bot alone. Shilling fossile tech and vilifying Europe for responding to Russia’s aggression is hard enough as it is.

Qwant is nice, but it keeps blocking my VPN and locks me out if I happen to use a non-European exit node (“We’re not offering Qwant in your region”). And I’m not pulling down my mask for a fucking search engine.

If you’re willing to put up with Duckduckgo but hate AI search, there’s https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

Thank you! While that does allay most security concerns, it does beg the question how useful such a vulnerability tracker is if it doesn’t actually show any relevant vulnerabilies and you constantly have to second-guess what it says. Warning signs that aren’t actually warnings because it’s “just a false alarm” quickly teach personell to not take warnings seriously - unti, onel day, it’s not a false alarm…

Thanks for your detailed reply!

To make that happen, the attacker must […] already have access to the server to upload and process the file, which means that security has already failed.

Do I correctly assume that by axis you mean shell or even root level access? If not, any of my regular users (turned rogue…) could upload a poisoned raw file which nextcloud would process to, for instance, generate a thumbnail.

Corporate-driven > community-driven distros

It is now.

Is it Shitpost Saturday already?