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Self-hosting my photos with Immich

(michael.stapelberg.ch)
659 points birdculture | 4 comments | 30 Nov 25 09:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.522s | source
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WD-42 ◴[06 Dec 25 03:02 UTC] No.46170203[source]▶
Self hosting used to mean conceding on something. I can honestly say Immich is better in every way than Google Photos or whatever Apple calls it. The only thing is having to set it up yourself.
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halapro ◴[06 Dec 25 06:34 UTC] No.46171210[source]▶
Does your phone silently and reliably upload all the photos to your server? My guess you're conceding on that part.

How's the offline app support? My full library (30k items) is available on my phone (not in high res). There are a lot more concessions I'm sure.

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1. vachina ◴[06 Dec 25 06:42 UTC] No.46171249[source]▶
I’d gladly trade manual but bulletproof sync over paying a fee forever for essentially… storing files on drives.

We got to this stage of having to sync because Apple can’t stand putting more storage on client devices.

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2. sebastiennight ◴[06 Dec 25 07:26 UTC] No.46171407[source]▶
> We got to this stage of having to sync ̶b̶e̶c̶a̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶A̶p̶p̶l̶e̶ ̶c̶a̶n̶’̶t̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶p̶u̶t̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶m̶o̶r̶e̶ ̶s̶t̶o̶r̶a̶g̶e̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶c̶l̶i̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶d̶e̶v̶i̶c̶e̶s̶.

"because a company that sells you Cloud storage has very few incentives to give away more local storage, or compress/optimize the files generated by its camera app." might be more accurate

3. dontlaugh ◴[06 Dec 25 10:46 UTC] No.46172272[source]▶
More device storage wouldn’t help. I couldn’t fit all of my pictures on any phone sold today.
4. volemo ◴[06 Dec 25 11:22 UTC] No.46172467[source]▶
> We got to this stage of having to sync because Apple can’t stand putting more storage on client devices.

It's not why I use sync services. All my photos fit on my devices (more or less). But I want to have seamless access to my files from both of my devices. And most importantly the sync is my first line of backup, i.e. if my phone gets obliterated I don't loose a day or two of files and photos, I only loose a couple of minutes.