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

submitted 21 hours ago by JustOneMoreCat@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] GeraltvonNVIDIA@lemmy.ml 6 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Immich is the best alternative I can think of. It runs about 2 years now on my raspberry pi.

And there is even a OpenSource Companion App which syncs Photos Automatically to the Server (https://droidify.eu.org/app/?id=app.alextran.immich&repo_address=https%3A%2F%2Ff-droid.org%2Frepo .

The Search is so good that I host another sever just for my meme-Collection! It even recognise Tags like NSFW out of the Box. And all that on your own hardware! You can search by people, cities, countries Dates, Devices and so on

You can selhost it on your own Hardware. Its pretty simple. You just have to install docker and docker-compose and follow the instructions on their site.

If you followed and learned that, you can pretty much host ANY other App just like that. Its pretty much always the same steps.

[–] JustOneMoreCat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 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!

[–] GeraltvonNVIDIA@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago

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.