• @[email protected]
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    611 months ago

    I’ve been thinking of a solution to this for a while now but the problem persists. I’d love to not have to indefinitely increase my Google drive storage, and in fact I have a home server with terabytes of free space on it where my and my wife’s photos get automatically backed up. The problem though is that they’re so much more usable and accessible in Google Photos. We have shared albums with our friends and family of our kid, of vacations and events. If I don’t remember when that funny picture of a duck was taken I can search “duck” or see a heat map of my photo library.

    The same problem is true with Proton Drive. I mean, I did just set up photo backup because why not, I have the space. But once they’re there what good are they if I can’t find them, organize them, share them?

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      11 months ago

      Try ente.io out. It’s much closer to the Google Photos experience.

      Magic search released, face ML is coming soon, and shared collaborative albums are already a feature.

      • @[email protected]
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        211 months ago

        Synology Photos (what I use) does all of that. The problem is for search and face match it’s nowhere near as good as Google and for sharing, I’d have to ask people to install a new app and set up an account, but they all already have Google accounts

        • JackGreenEarth
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          111 months ago

          I’d have to ask people to install a new app and set up an account, but they all already have Google account

          If you’re not willing to take that minor trouble, no one will be able to help you. Sounds like an excuse to use Google rather than an actual good reason.

          • @[email protected]
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            311 months ago

            If you’ve ever asked your aunt or grandmother to install an unfamiliar app and make a new account for it, you’d know this isn’t minor trouble.

            • @[email protected]
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              111 months ago

              These sort of people must not have family or friends. They obviously don’t interact with them much if they just expect them to download and set up something at the drop of a hat.

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        I just set up Immich on my home server this morning, it’s awesome! And then Proton announces photos this afternoon. 😅

        • LUHG
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          211 months ago

          I have Immich. I’ve even spent countless hours getting my nas folder structure imported without destroying the originals. I’ll be using both now. Not a waste by any means I must stress.

          Although, proton says it can’t find my camera folder so isn’t working for me yet.

    • @Papanca
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      211 months ago

      You can share them by right clicking and creating a link. And they are working on organization next.

        • @[email protected]
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          011 months ago

          Uh, I did. Please enlighten me how anything in your post could nit be addressed by this.

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            If you’re literally just sync thinging pictures to a remote computer, how do you share albums with your friends and family, search for that photo of a duck, or see a heat map of where you took them?

            I listed each of those examples.