If you use Nextcloud, install the App Memories and you will have the same functions as Immich plus all the upload functions of Nextcloud.

But if you are not interested in all the Nextcloud functionalities (including contact and calendar sync, musicserver, filesharing, etc) and just want picture management, Immich is the better choice.

Gnome devs threatening me with a good time on my surface laptop. Please stop.

Beautiful, I love the colors.

Unreliable search, can’t handle one online and one local postbox side by side (both have to be turned to online postbox), it messes up my contacts every chance it gets, rules don’t work on the online postboxes,… And everything is so slow!

I am so happy with my Linux setup, but for this one costumer I have to use this shitty piece of software.

There is always emacs with org-roam.

Org-roam is kind of a wiki, you write your notes with all the formatting power of an org-file and you can link to other notes you have written.

Of course everything is searchable, with tags, without tags, however you want.

BUT: it takes time to get used to the shortcuts, and it takes a lot of time to configure everything how you like it.

The result is worth it.

Edit: I use Nextcloud to sync my notes accross my devices. On the smartphone there seems to be the App OrgNote available, but I haven’t checked it out, as I don’t use my smartphone that much.

Worked well for me. Although all the people I care about had already Signal, Element or Threema installed, so I am not a great pull factor.

And those everyday moms from child care or from wherever can reach me via SMS, for the two messages/year.

“Microsoft is an evil company, basically the enemy of free software, but here is why you should use their product…”

Booooo

Why are they bad in your opinion? I turn on the white frame in darktable, as a reference for white balancing and stuff. Sometimes I like the look of the picture with the white frame so much, I keep it in the export.

Totally different for me:

• NC-calendar syncs two different calendars (work and private) accross all my devices.
• NC Photos with Memories organizes 2 TB of photos and has all the functions Immich has.
• NC Password Manager syncs my Passwords
• I share big files with my clients via NC and photo albums to friends and family.
• NC syncs and organizes different Input-folders for my paperless-ngx-server.
• I update NC with a small script, works every time

So it replaces at least 5 different Programs. And it’s 80 % private use, 20 % for my business. Not too big, not too clunky, just the right tool.

Nice try mom, but I am adulting now.

The contrast equalizer looks like a very powerfull tool, I will try to get it to know better. And your “fine clarity”-recipe looks very promissing, thank you for sharing.

Why do you choose Lychee over Immich? Does it have features you prefer?

Challenge: Bird or church-person? Cardinals are often seen in groups, twitter a lot and shouldn’t eat too much white bread, or they will poop all over your car.

I am using the Tamron 150-500mm F/5-6.7 Di III VC and I enjoy it a lot. Autofocus with the Sony works fast, with the right light even flying swallows are not save.

Regarding the focal length: I noticed that I don’t care much if I go 450 mm or 500 mm. But what I do care about: sometimes I wish I could below the 150 mm, to be a bit more flexible. So my next lense in my next live would probably be a sharp and fast 100-400mm.

The high-effort-way: self-hosting. Take an old PC (or easier: nextcloud-hardware) and install Nextcloud + Memories-App or e.g. immich. But exposing your server to the internet should only be done after learning a lot about the subject, as it could potentially be quite dangerous.

Two of our professional-photography-friends are using picdrop.com, 1 GB is free, 10 GB cost 10€/month, 500GB are 15€/month.

I would be skeptical of a page where you could upload this much data for free, as server space simply has it’s costs. If you don’t pay the service, they will make sure they get their money in a different way.

Where are LUTs in the darktable workflow? Are they scene referred or display referred?

I installed the version from F-Droid-Store, Version 0.6-something. The main problem for me was, that you couldn’t download single songs, only complete albums - and I gave up on the App.

This post made me install the 0.9-beta-APK (directly from github), and it already fullfills all my wishes, you can download single songs now! And I love that you can filter for your favorites and download them all at once. Really looking forward to further process, it’s so promissing.

I guess you only use the standard Nextcloud photo app, not Memories. It is very comparable to the features you describe + if you have already set up your Nextcloud, there is no need to work with yet another software on your server.

Memories also uses automatic tagging, so searching for tent and beach would probably get you the same result. But I guess they are not using the best recognition software, I get a few missinterpretations here and there. (My marzipan potatoe with googly eyes is not an ‘Instrument’. But I guess it’s a challange for any software)

I want to add a fun (at least for me) way to use flash cards:

I take a songtext in the language I want to learn, feed it to an LLM with the prompt:

List every word in this text in column A in a .csv-file. Don’t list a word that is already listed. Translate every word and write the translation in column B. Check, if every word of the text is listed once in column A. If it isn’t, add it and translate it.

I then feed this .csv-file into the flashcard app VocableTrainer (available on F-Droid) and learn those words. After that, I am happy to sing along to a song I now know the meaning of. Songs stay in my head very easy and so do those new learned words.

(The prompt might not be quite right, I talk German with my LLM and tried to roughly translate what I normaly write. Just check if it works and adjust it.)

Would be great, if someone could programm such a function into a vocab-trainer.