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Self-hosting my photos with Immich

(michael.stapelberg.ch)
659 points birdculture | 3 comments | 30 Nov 25 09:11 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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oliyoung ◴[06 Dec 25 03:14 UTC] No.46170280[source]▶
Docker + Immich + Tailscale is the killer replacement to Google & Apple Photos, it's simply that simple
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vvpan ◴[06 Dec 25 03:16 UTC] No.46170298[source]▶
Can you elaborate? What role does Tailscale play? I selfhost and have heard about Tailscale but couldn't figure out how it's used.
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1. tjpnz ◴[06 Dec 25 04:25 UTC] No.46170676[source]▶
Tailscale gives me access to my home network when I'm not at home. I can be on a train, in another country even, and watch shows streamed off the Raspberry Pi in my home office.
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2. lucb1e ◴[06 Dec 25 17:45 UTC] No.46175137[source]▶
That's called a VPN

Is this like "Band-Aid" that used to be a brand name but now people just use it generically?

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3. Sanzig ◴[08 Dec 25 15:43 UTC] No.46193586[source]▶
Tailscale is a bit more than a VPN. It operates in a mesh configuration rather than a traditional VPN concentrator setup. Tailscale's control plane orchestrates NAT traversal for devices on the Tailnet (through techniques like UDP hole punching) and allows them to establish direct Wireguard tunnels between them. That way, there's no VPN concentrator bottleneck because there's no concentrator at all, every device establishes tunnels to every other device.