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by jordibc 294 days ago
I found myself in a similar situation and also started de-googling, which is much nicer and liberating than I was fearing.

I did the exact same thing with Immich (what a great software, by the way!).

And in case it helps:

Instead of always relying on google maps, I now mostly use CoMaps (https://www.comaps.app/). Way better than using directly OpenStreetMap. And for my Pixel 7, I switched to LineageOS with gapps (https://lineageos.org/) and I'm not missing anything and am very happy with it.

Also, I'm trying now Nextcloud (https://nextcloud.com/), with a setup similar to Immich, and now I do believe there is life beyond google, and it's a better life.
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litmus-pit-git 294 days ago
Does Immich read real file names of photos from iOS Photos metadata? I don't even know whether Apple preserves it and exposes to other apps?

I used Ente and I learned all the files I had "added/uploaded" to iCloud photos had lost their real names (that I had painstakingly given them over the years/decades) when ente exported to those photos back on my laptop via their desktop app and were these long random uuid strings kinda names. That was my yikes moment and I was glad I had still kept my photos outside of iCloud and Ente. And it is not even Ente's fault. Apple does this skullbuggery.

Are there PAYG hosted instanes of Immich?

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TranquilMarmot 294 days ago
I used immich-go to upload photos from Google Photos and it worked great, I'm not sure how well that works with iCloud but it's at least a supported option (...although with a TODO next to it)

https://github.com/simulot/immich-go?tab=readme-ov-file#from...

> Are there PAYG hosted instanes of Immich?

I was really surprised to learn that there aren't right now. It sounds like FUTO, the org behind Immich, is working on something like this but they haven't put out any real details so it's probably far off.

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incone123 294 days ago
Do you mean skulduggery or was that a deliberate 'bone apple tea'?
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HackerNewt-doms 294 days ago
Why did you switch to LineageOS and not Graphene with your pixel 7?
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jordibc 294 days ago
Convenience. It will be maintained for much longer. And I'm used to it by now.
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