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I moved my 565GB photo library to immich about a year ago and haven't looked back. Unfortunately, convincing my wife has been a bit harder, as she has real netw

by a10c 1mo ago

I moved my 565GB photo library to immich about a year ago and haven't looked back. Unfortunately, convincing my wife has been a bit harder, as she has real network effects of many shared albums across a large family (30+) that all aren't going to switch the immich app so they can join her album and sync the photos. Nonetheless, a positive move in the right direction!

ozyschmozy 1mo ago
What's your setup like? Do you host it on your own hardware or the cloud? Is it exposed to the internet? I have a homelab setup with my media server stuff and frigate (for security cameras), and they're only accessible via tailscale if I'm not at home. It would theoretically be easy enough to throw immich in there as well but I don't know how the app will behave when it can't reach the server half the time
- a10c 1mo ago
  I run a 5 node kubernetes cluster as my homelab. It has both public and private DNS for local upload (faster) and for remote access and sharing (via a Cloudflare tunnel).
- close04 1mo ago
  > I don't know how the app will behave when it can't reach the server half the time Immich has automatic URL switching, so it detects which network it's on and select between the internal and external URLs. When I'm not on my home WiFi it switches to the Tailscale URL. Tailscale must be connected for this to work obviously.
  - barrkel 1mo ago
    If you run DNS at home (even just dnsmasq) and you bridge your home 192.whatever to tailscale, you can make the same domain name resolve both at home and via tailscale.
coldpie 1mo ago
> my 565GB photo library I always wonder what people do with these photos. For me photos are utilitarian. I take a photo and immediately send it to my wife or friend, or upload it to my website for an article, or post it on Instagram or whatever, and then I no longer have any use for the photo on my devices. Once a year or so whenever my storage gets full, I just bulk-delete anything older than 6 months and if it hasn't been saved elsewhere for a specific purpose, then it's just gone forever. I don't miss it, because I already did what I wanted with it, so there's no need for me to keep it around. What do you actually do with half a terabyte of photos?
- inanutshellus 1mo ago
  I was the same til I had kids. Now I'm trapped just like most everyone else. Every photo is just "okay" in the moment but .. five years later the difference is so big. 99.999% of these "precious" photos are dumped in a hole and never looked at again. It feels silly to bother keeping it when I know I'm not going to sift through it. All those hour-long videos of little-tyke sporting events shot from a million miles away... hahaha... still can't delete'm.
- a10c 1mo ago
  I am the designated family photographer. Many of those are raw files (30MB each), so admittedly a portion of them will never be seen again. Storage is cheap though, especially local storage I don't pay a cloud subscription for, so it hasn't bothered me. And as the other child comment mentions, my rate of photo production has increased exponentially since having kids.
- 2III7 1mo ago
  > What do you actually do with half a terabyte of photos? Reminisce when you get old(er). Especially if you have children.

by a10c 1mo ago

ozyschmozy 1mo ago

What's your setup like? Do you host it on your own hardware or the cloud? Is it exposed to the internet? I have a homelab setup with my media server stuff and frigate (for security cameras), and they're only accessible via tailscale if I'm not at home. It would theoretically be easy enough to throw immich in there as well but I don't know how the app will behave when it can't reach the server half the time

a10c 1mo ago
I run a 5 node kubernetes cluster as my homelab. It has both public and private DNS for local upload (faster) and for remote access and sharing (via a Cloudflare tunnel).
close04 1mo ago
> I don't know how the app will behave when it can't reach the server half the time Immich has automatic URL switching, so it detects which network it's on and select between the internal and external URLs. When I'm not on my home WiFi it switches to the Tailscale URL. Tailscale must be connected for this to work obviously.
- barrkel 1mo ago
  If you run DNS at home (even just dnsmasq) and you bridge your home 192.whatever to tailscale, you can make the same domain name resolve both at home and via tailscale.

coldpie 1mo ago

> my 565GB photo library I always wonder what people do with these photos. For me photos are utilitarian. I take a photo and immediately send it to my wife or friend, or upload it to my website for an article, or post it on Instagram or whatever, and then I no longer have any use for the photo on my devices. Once a year or so whenever my storage gets full, I just bulk-delete anything older than 6 months and if it hasn't been saved elsewhere for a specific purpose, then it's just gone forever. I don't miss it, because I already did what I wanted with it, so there's no need for me to keep it around. What do you actually do with half a terabyte of photos?

inanutshellus 1mo ago
I was the same til I had kids. Now I'm trapped just like most everyone else. Every photo is just "okay" in the moment but .. five years later the difference is so big. 99.999% of these "precious" photos are dumped in a hole and never looked at again. It feels silly to bother keeping it when I know I'm not going to sift through it. All those hour-long videos of little-tyke sporting events shot from a million miles away... hahaha... still can't delete'm.
a10c 1mo ago
I am the designated family photographer. Many of those are raw files (30MB each), so admittedly a portion of them will never be seen again. Storage is cheap though, especially local storage I don't pay a cloud subscription for, so it hasn't bothered me. And as the other child comment mentions, my rate of photo production has increased exponentially since having kids.
2III7 1mo ago
> What do you actually do with half a terabyte of photos? Reminisce when you get old(er). Especially if you have children.