Immich is a better alternative to Google Photo
I recently made the jump. It’s crazy how much effort goes into optimising Nextcloud it still remains the most demanding thing on your server and your sanity.
Hot take. Nextcloud is hot garbage. If you want file sync use Seafile. So so so so much faster and more resource efficient. For the rest of next cloud functionality just use a tool specific to that.
Nextcloud is still tied to the old php/fpm model. There are better approaches now days. Hell even owncloud is rewriting away from the php/fpm approach.
This is exactly what I did. I replaced it with a Immich, a webdav client, and an xmpp server (prosody). I only needed online storage for phone photo access/backup and syncing my keepass DB and contacts. I set these apps up once and now I don’t need to touch them.
I am just about to start experimenting with opencloud.eu. It is another developer revolt fork of Opencloud (this time their infinite scale project) so it is supposed to be a lightweight single binary that uses a real filesystem and no database at all. Lacks all the add ons of nextcloud, buy I am tired of maintaining it.
Anyone try it?
Yep, though I have a bug in my use case from a older version, and I still didn’t have the time to try the new stable version. I also translated the Docker compose for the project and extensions into .container files. In the newer version it seems they managed to remove a sidecar container.
So far, it runs on a VPS with a 4-core and 8GB of RAM. On a first run, after upgrading, it needed swap as the system started freezing and the OOM killer stopped the program, zram was enough in my case.
Besides the main container — and the sidecar — I used the Collabora container, LDAP for user management, Keycloak for auth, full Tika for OCR search — modified for my language — and Radicale. Mind you, most probably want the main container and the online office container, be it EuroOffice, Collabora or OnlyOffice.
Here is the memory usage and CPU usage on standby from
podman stats:NAME MEM USAGE / LIMIT CPU % systemd-tika 175MB / 8.054GB 0.68% caddy 43.35MB / 8.054GB 0.24% systemd-ldap 67.08MB / 8.054GB 0.01% radicale 2.425MB / 8.054GB 0.00% syncthing 29.97MB / 8.054GB 0.21% systemd-keycloak-postgres 41.12MB / 8.054GB 0.06% systemd-keycloak 663.4MB / 8.054GB 0.75% systemd-collabora 42.02MB / 8.054GB 0.27% systemd-opencloud 883.4MB / 8.054GB 7.31% systemd-collaboration 57.71MB / 8.054GB 0.31%Awesome. Thank you for the detailed answer.
uses a real filesystem and no database at all
Sounds very promising! That’s what has always pushed me off Nextcloud.
Setup is incredibly bad. They have a very very strict set of parameters to be able to log in at all. I have pretty much given up OK it as there is no way for me to log in for the first time with default admin credentials. It simply doesn’t accept the states environment variables on docker and you get 1 attempt to log in before it gets stuck in a loop and you have to purge the image and every volume and file to get a second attempt.
tried it, but i couldnt figure out how to add my existing photos in the way i had organised them: /year/event/photo.jpeg and nextcloud made it pretty easy
Both Google Photo and Immich, treat all images individually. And assume that any grouping is done a Tag/ album level. Regardless of file name or hierarchy.
If you what to show your “event” in the UI, you would need to run a onetime script and amend album with the name of parent folder.
Immich is for phones only apparently.
The web client is full featured.
I mean it’s for the photos from phones. It doesn’t seem to be very well suited to manage a photo archive from an actual camera (there’s dozens of us!).
I have my home video also, in Immich.
What’s your stance on Mullvad’s founder donating significantly to a far right political party in Sweden? Feels contradictory to why I use a VPN in the first place.
Yeah for this reason alone Mullvad should no longer be considered viable. IVPN seems promising, I plan to switch to them once my subscription runs out. I don’t like how much they talk about being “politically neutral” but it’s better than donating to nazi freaks I guess.
ive never heard of that before. if true, thats not good, but i still trust Mullvad’s service as they were raided a couple of times and had nothing to show the police. bc of instances like that i still believe them to be very good for privacy. if more news comes of from their CEO doing sketchy stuff i might look for another VPN though…
It is noteworthy that Mullvad did not donate any money to any political party.
Very good for you! I can’t change a lot of things cause, school, family, or i don’t understand the tech behind it, but it’s good to see other people protecting there own privacy!
yeah switching away from whatsapp is impossible. i only got my parents to switch lol
I have been waging a war of attrition getting people to switch onto Signal. After 5 years I’ve managed to get my spouse, my sister, my mother, 6 of my friends, 6 of my coworkers, and one sports team I play on to begin using it. Only real holdouts are my in-laws, two of my friends I talk to regularly, and another sports team or two. Some I’ve wooed off of basic texting, others off of WhatsApp. It’s been a long hard road, but at this point, I would estimate about 85% of my communications happen over Signal now. Keep fighting the good fight
ngl, thats awesome. i gave up the “fight” after my friends ridiculed me for caring about privacy… got my parents on signal tho :3
Because of the restrictions put on popular messengers in my country, I was able to move my whole family including my 80 year old grandma over to ArcaneChat. It’s weird, but I literally almost never use proprietary messengers now…
It also goes to show how censorship greatly accelerates mass adoption of FLOSS tools.
I am self hosting matrix server, set up element in my family devices and for once we escaped the network, from time to time I do create a whatsup account while travelling, but I give up on it right after.
Having never heard of it and only used the Aurora Store (recently without any issues), what does App Lounge have going for it?
idk, its just aurora + f-droid imo. its just the default for /e/os phones
Isn’t the aurora store not updated anymore? Or is that just their fdroid store alternative?
For FOSS programs I use Neostore which is quite good.
im completely within the proton eco system, the only reason for my 2fa not being proton is because i made this choice before proton had a 2fa app and i didnt want to bother importing everything
🔥🔥 Well done! It is a fun journey right :) I’m still enjoying discovering better alternatives
its an awesome journey :3 for some of these its a real shame they’re an “alternative” and not just the primary choice
Who the fuck is migrating off of Opera GX? People actually use that shit?
i used to bc it looks cool :3
I’d rather use KeePassXC tbh. Local, cloud-free by default password manager.
I’m not sure Lemmy belongs in this list. Isn’t all the content posted here fully visible to anyone, anywhere?
Yeah social media on a privacy list is a bit odd. I think the point is a lemmy instance (probably) won’t log your IP and report you to the feds for any cool flock activities you have going on (but don’t quote me on that).
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Great job!! How are you liking /e/?
i like it :3 the default launcher “bliss” is awful, but ive used lawnchair for a while and it was nice. now i switched to ion just to try it. but yeah, pretty much everything works as exected
What is Cash+iDeal? Definitely don’t see anything on f droid and words are generic enough to not provide any results on search.
cash is just real money, like coins y’know? and iDeal/Wero is a Dutch (soon european) payment provider
Have one for meetup?
Auth – Enteauth OS – Artix Linux Passwd manager – Vaultwarden
I’m not sure that signal is that “private”
this post author is very confused person, cachy os, signal and proton :D
how are those things not private what?
I have an Murena account, this include apart of mail, also e/OS, Nextcloud instance, Oonline Office and a lot more, they even sell Phones (FreePhone). substitute practically all Google apps and services. I also use the Portmaster app (FOSS, Windows and Linux), it includes optional (paid OpenSource) an SPN service, which is an multichannel VPN
