For me all I really need in a photos app is reliable backup from my phone to my nas. My wife on the other hand, she takes lots of photos that she likes to organize into albums and share with family, so she's really the deciding factor, i don't think she really need the facial recognition, it may be useful but really it's just being able to make albums, sort by month or year, share content, that kind of stuff.

Trying to move all my data out of big cloud providers. I moved to synology when Google started to limit photo storage. Don't want amazon to have my data either. And I'm not too thrilled with the direction synology is going trying to force proprietary drives on there customers so once again I'm going to move back to self hosted non proprietary solutions.

If you own a domain name you can use DNS challenge for obtaining the ssl cert, no need to open ports to get a cert issued. Nginx proxy manager has this feature built in and has support for many DNS name registrars.

Do you feel immich is mature enough to be a primary photos app? I may go the route of nextcloud as I'm planning to migrate to nextcloud from synology drive. Didn't realize they had a photos backup app ad well.

As I move to more self hosting, it's becoming more and more important to create a "what to do if I die" procedure for my wife (or even children) to follow. I mean it's not big deal if the plex server goes down and doesn't come back up, I'm thinking more along the lines of all of our photos, important documents, password manager, those type of things. I have 3 - 2 - 1 backups for the important stuff and have tested them, but that means nothing to my wife if I wasn't around to get that stuff back if something happened.. I wonder some days if I should document it all and put a print out with a step by step guide on how to get everything back that a semi tech savvy person could follow.

This is pathetic.

Dude, the 80s wasn't 40 years ago...

Damn I got old..

I known this us a few days old but just wanted to chime in. I've been enjoying the "1 liter/mini pc" trend in home lab/server lately. I got myself a couple of hp elitedesk mini 600 g4's for $120 each on ebay, they have an 8th gen intel i5 and support quicksync. If you're patient you can find similar mini pcs for around the $100 price range, they're generally cheaper than nuc or nuc clones and since they're big name brands (hp, lenovo, Dell, etc all have a version of them) you can find parts for them easily on the used market.

I just use Google keep to note when I do maintenance and I tag it as vehicle maintenance. If I need to know when I rotated the tires I can just look through everything in that tag to see. For things that I want to keep a receipt record of I scan the receipt and put it in a folder for the vehicle labeled something like "oil change engine air filter 34k miles" and save it on my nas(would work with drive/dropbox/one drive too)