Leniwcowaty 4d ago

This is the best evidence, that Google is going too far.

I got email, that my 200 GB Google One plan is being phased out (with wife we have shared sub for Google Photos), and I have to choose between 100 GB (too small) or 2 TB (too expensive).

Wife, who not even 2 weeks ago asked me how to open file browser on her MacBook, asked me if I can make "some server thingy", to have our photos locally, and not in Google Photos.

So here I am, configuring Immich locally!

#selfhosting #server #linux

Show threadDr. Christopher Kunz4d ago
@leniwcowaty I think Immich is a great choice and I really enjoy how flawless it works. If shitty product choices by the Big Tech companies empower more people to start self-hosting, I'm all for that.
Show threadLeniwcowaty 
@christopherkunz the only issue I have with switching to Immich is that with albums shared with other people on Google, even if you select "Save to my library" the Google Takeout only exports your photos. So I have to export photos separately, import with immich-go, and then download albums and re-create them on Immich manually
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Show threadDr. Christopher Kunz4d ago

@leniwcowaty Yeah, Google has become very good at walling their garden. I recently tried to export some shared folders from a Google Drive and had to resort to pretty dirty and time-consuming hacks.

Unfortunately, that's what they do. Once your images are in Immich and it did its thing, it's pretty nifty.

Show threadLeniwcowaty 4d ago
@christopherkunz exactly! And for testing purposes it runs quite nicely on a 2014 laptop acting as a sort-of server. But still, I'll be using an 8th gen i5 HP desktop as my server in "production"