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Photos alternative with good recognition / search? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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Slowly but surely trying to de google my life, but Google Photos is a hard one. I have a kid and seven pets, and I've come to rely on Google Photo's search abilities to actually find anything I want to see in the hot mess of disorganized photos.

I tried a trial of Ente and filled it up to the free limit with pics. It was able to recognize my toddler in THREE photos, no one else. I don't know how many or which photos are backed up because it doesn't seem to show them separate from my un-backed up ones. It doesn't learn to recognize pets as far as I can tell.

I'm too tired to learn to self host just to use Immich, even though I've heard good things, ha.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Is raspberry pi pretty easy to set up? Or if you were starting over would you go with something else? I have a windows laptop and an android phone, so that's the extent of what I'm familiar with so far. But Immich does look so promising!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I would say it is, but to be fair, i work as a programmer and with Linux on a daily basis.

But there are plenty of tutorials which teach you to flash some OS to your Pi or even complete guides to build immich on top of a pi:( https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-immich/ )

The raspberry pi is the famoust single board Computer and therefore there are tons of projects and things you can do with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Link looks awesome, thanks! Do you also keep a separate cloud backup of your photos in case your server is damaged (like in a disaster or something)?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I should do that, but i dont do it at the Moment.

Maybe in the future. It should be pretty simple by running my attached drives as a RAID 1-Cluster or something.

They're running on NAS 24/7 online-Drives. At the Moment I'm pretty confident that I am safe.