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[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 20 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I dumped Google photos for self hosted immich and it’s been great.

I went to install immich but it was very heavy... I don't need AI in a selfhosted Google Photo's replacement.

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm sorry, but then you are the minority. AI image categorization and face recognition is amazing for finding specific pictures quickly

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is one of the few things I can get behind with machine learning. Locally run, doesn't "phone home", just analyzes faces and categorizes them. That's it.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That's great when your photos have faces. Mine mostly don't. Also they don't come from my phone. So Google is also fairly useless.

[–] jodanlime@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It also works on simple objects, not as good as Google yet but good enough for me. I can search for keyboard or bicycle and find pictures that way.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

That's good to know. I'm using digikam, but I'm always interested in options

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago
[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I wasn't super thrilled about the idea myself, but with the ability to disable it I figured I'd give it a try.

Personally it's a really cool feature that adds to the experience.

[–] LKC@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 months ago

Those features can be disabled to ease up on resources.

[–] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago

I got it running on a raspberry pi and have disabled the machine learning parts in the docker compose file. Works great.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It's really not that heavy. I have Immich - and several other services - running on a 4-core VM with 16GB RAM, running on 7th gen Intel hardware alongside another 4c/16GB VM and several LXC containers. It does the job just fine with more than enough overhead.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

I have it running on 4gb of ram. No problems!

[–] doodledup@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Does that run on top of next cloud or can I run it independently of next cloud?

[–] doodledup@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

It's a Nextcloud app.

[–] apostrofail@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

a self-hosted* Google Photos* replacement