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Immich allows you to create a shareable link for an album which other people can use to view and optionally upload photos, without a login required. I've only used this particular feature on the web so I don't know how or even whether it works on the app though.

The biggest one was that Photoprism doesn't have a mobile app. It seems a lot of people use PhotoSync (a third party app) to back up to a PhotoPrism instance, but I didn't even want to give it a shot considering they don't offer the premium features on Android. Immich on the other hand has apps that are developed together with the server and web UI, so everything is well-integrated.

I LOVE Immich. Been using it for a few months now, first on a Raspberry Pi 4 and then an old x86 box. Before Immich I had tried for a while to use Photoprism with Syncthing to sync photos from my phone, but the transition to that from Google Photos was a frustrating one.

Immich on the other hand expressly tries to be a Google Photos replacement, and while I initially thought that was an audacious goal for a fresh open source project to have, I have been pleasantly surprised by how feature-rich it has become in a short amount of time.

I know the developer makes it very clear that it's not stable yet, so I'm making sure I back up everything from my server at regular intervals. But I've found it to be more and more stable with new releases, so hopefully a first stable release is not far away.

I used it on a Pi 4 for a month or two. Everything else was fine but the pi was really starting to struggle running the machine learning container, especially when I imported a bunch of photos at once. I have it on a beefier x86 machine now and things have been smooth.

You can create multiple users on your server and share your albums or individual assets with them. You can also create public sharing links that anyone can access, just like Google photos. You'll of course need to make the server accessible to them in some way.

My server is hosted at home in a Raspberry Pi and an SSD for storage. I have a public domain name and it is forwarded to my home network through CloudFlare. Might be a little risky security-wise, but I want to eventually make this instance usable for my parents.

Photoprism is great at what it does but it's not a Google Photos alternative. It doesn't auto-backup photos from your phone like Google Photos.

I'm currently using Immich and although it's still a while away from having a stable release, it shows a great deal of promise. I like that it's being built with a clearly stated purpose of being a Google Photos alternative. It may never be as seamless or smooth as Google Photos, but I think it will be perfectly enough for privacy-conscious self-hosters.

At least for the foreseeable future, I'm going to be buying a Pixel and immediately installing GrapheneOS on it whenever I need to upgrade my phone.

The experience is not perfect, and especially if you opt to not even keep the sandboxed Google Play Services, lots of apps just won't work. But it's a trade-off I'm happy to make.

Seemingly there isn't, which is a shame because a lot of people would benefit from it. Practically everyone has a smartphone and people's photo libraries keep growing and growing. When I was young and still naïve about the big G, Google photos was awesome but now it doesn't make sense to hand over all of my photos for them to mine and have to pay for storage too.

Right now my setup involves using Syncthing to get photos from my phone to my RPi-based NAS, where I'm running a Photoprism instance. On paper it looked great but Photoprism lacks polish and some important features. On the app side I planned to use PhotoSync to sync with Photoprism but didn't bother downloading it when I found out it wasn't open source and the Android version was ad-supported. A solid Android app that uses Photoprism as a backend and is as smooth and fast as Google Photos would be great to have.

I feel exactly as the author feels, and it's heartening to see so many comments here talking about this problem. What baffles me is outside of HN and the occasional news story or opinion piece, people seem to be just unbothered. People (or at least my friend and acquaintance circle) seem to keep using these platforms, posting on and what the infinite scroll feeds them as if there's nothing out of the ordinary about it all.

I've tried sharing on my social media how I feel about it all in the past, but I stopped after I started feeling like most people don't have a problem with it. No one wants to be the person that demands the state of affairs should change just because it inconveniences them.

After years of trying to be productive with to-do apps, I've found that nothing beats the flexibility of plain old pen and paper. Even analog systems like Analog or Bullet Journal impose rules of varying inflexibility, and that made them very unappealing, for me at least.

I guess this is because people have different ways of thinking about goals, tasks and timeframes. For me what works best is a 'week todo' that contains coarser/larger tasks and a daily todo that contains more granular tasks, often sub-tasks of the weekly ones. Adopting this method has made me more productive than I've been in years.

No, thankfully they're hitting paths like /phpmyadmin/index.html which do not exist on the server. Makes sense, it's probably random IP address based probes long you said.

I'm not running https but I should, to protect myself from someone MITMing the requests and possibly pwning my Pi.

I built something similar for my girlfriend's birthday a few months ago. A buzzer and a lightbulb connected through a relay to an RPi, which hosts a basic HTTP server. The server is exposed to the Internet through a reverse ssh tunnel to a VPS in the cloud.

What has taken me aback is how it regularly receives malicious traffic that I suspect is from bots scanning for vulnerable servers. The hostname is not shared anywhere public. The client app that knows the URL has only been shared to her as an APK. Made me realize there's no such thing as security through obscurity.

I used to be like this until about roughly the same time as I got my first smartphone. Now I just have to fill my 'empty' time with watching, reading or scrolling of some sort, otherwise I'll start to get anxious and bored. I miss those days of daydreaming and contemplation, but I've found it very difficult to go back to not needing to look at screens.