Thinking of slowly transitioning my online existence to a server that I own and keep plugged in at home, or rent in a location that is as far from US jurisdiction as possible. The problem with the later is that that it's going to be expensive. With the former is that it's less failure-tolerant and requires more maintenance on my side.

I'd want to run #NextCloud for my family, and perhaps #immich (once it's stable), so the price will add up quickly because of the tech requirements.

So, aktuell habe ich 2 #pihole. Einer ist natürlich überflüssig. Aber ich wollte von einem Pi 1 auf einen Pi 3B umziehen, um dann zusätzlich noch #Docker zu installieren und darin noch irgendwas an Software laufen zu lassen, z. B. #Vaultwarden und mal schauen, was noch so geht bzw Sinn macht. #Immich (Alternative zu Google Photos) und #Nextcloud wären ganz nett, aber vor allem ersteres wäre mit Inhalt sowieso viel zu groß für die 128-GB-SD-Karte im Pi.

Für #immich und anderes würde sich eigentlich mein NAS (Diskstation) anbieten, aber leider ist das Ding zu alt und da kann ich kein Docker installieren.

Gerade kam mir noch in den Sinn, dass ich mir ja auch nen Thinclient für kleines Geld zulegen könnte. Puh, ich komm immer von Hölzchen auf Stöckchen, aber eigentlich habe ich eh viel zu wenig Zeit für solche Hobbies. Aber die Möglichkeiten wären da schon andere und theoretisch würde es sich lohnen.

#raspberry-pi #degoogle #unplugTrump

Trying to switch away from big tech is continuing:
I set up a #Immich instance to ditch #Google #Photos and take back my #privacy. I run the server on my #homelab and proxy it over a tunnel to be accessible everywhere.
Immich takes more resources than expected, but is running smooth with 6GB RAM.

Todays fun: Importing google photos into #immich

- Create a google takeout (turned out 50+GB)
- use #rclone to download the takeout to the NAS
- Create a api key in immich
- use immich-go (binary from github releases) to import the takeout (without expanding the takeout zips - nice!)

import took about an hour, but now immich is working through the almost 2k Photos ... Next step: labeling / correcting faces ...

Now with #immich going, I have most of my data self-hosted.

In the case of photos I haven't set up a 3rd backup location so they'll remain in apple photos until I have some redundancy, but now I've managed to remove most of my apple-reliance.

This also means that my #linux machines aren't just code / utility boxes, but can actually participate in my life.

God I’m getting old. A stupid question: I’m currently getting rid of Google Photos by downloading my archive. I want try to Immich but I’ve noticed it’s says self hosting and I’m to old and dumb to get in all that.

What’s the difference between self hosting a server and keeping your data on an external SSD for example? Access and use of use I presume?

A question for you #selfhosting and #homelab peeps:
Do you know why Docker Desktop might keep stopping, when running the #Immich container?

The log shows this:

Error: Input file has corrupt header

for a particular photo.

And another error was:

Error: Input file contains unsupported image format

But wouldn't this just skip the file, not crash out the container?

Immich 1.129 fixes memory issues, adds video playback in memories and introduces shortcuts and QR codes for easier sharing.
https://linuxiac.com/immich-1-129-photo-and-video-backup-solution-released/

Immich

High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution

https://github.com/immich-app/immich

I do some work for a #community media organisation.

Today I rolled out #immich
(https://immich.app/)

A self hosted #FOSS #docker stack media management solution.
It does images as well as video.
It's FANTASTIC.
Lets me rephrase that, ITS FUCKING AWESOME.
A decade ago, we were quoted $20,000 for a custom content indexing database.
Everyone was oohing and aahing at the demo.

The most obvious feature is timeline indexing (what photos we have from july 2007).
Accessible via a slider bar.
It also has a LOCAL #AI.
Basic, but very cool. Search for "Cars on the road" or "Drag queens".
Indexes content by people's faces.

Best thing is, I am running it on a shitty Intel NUC that the ops people hated because windows on it was so slow. With #Linux, it's just fast enough, although it took about 6 days to index all 33,000 #video files on our core #NAS.

Next deploy is my partners 15 years of phone media dumps on the home NAS.
Would also be perfect to organise ones #porn collection, though strangely enough, I am no longer interested in that. Old age does funny things.

Highly recommended.

Discover Immich, a powerful #opensource #selfhosted photo backup solution! Upload photos from your phone or computer, and enjoy features like facial recognition & tagging. Sync your photos across devices, even when offline. Try it out and keep your memories safe! #Immich #PhotoBackup https://youtu.be/0TX9cMQlOdY

This piece of open-source software can download everything you have on instagram https://instaloader.github.io/basic-usage.html

To keep it only for you, I would recommend immich which is really mature, still haven't tested Pixelfed yet, even though I donated to their kickstarter.

New release of Immich Kiosk: v0.18.0
-> https://github.com/damongolding/immich-kiosk/releases/tag/v0.18.0

The Kiosk container image registry have been changed to:
ghcr.io/damongolding/immich-kiosk:0.18.0

Immich Kiosk is a lightweight slideshow for running on kiosk devices and browsers that uses #Immich as a data source.