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Discovered some fantastic options through this research. Hopefully this guide can help you!
1.: Thanks! :)
2.: Immich is free to use. The one time payment is optional.
In regards to Ente being US based, this is mainly due to EU being difficult to establish a company in a country where you dont have a physical presence.
The team behind Ente are international and work from everywhere around the world. They initially did try to make a European company but would have to make some workarounds to achieve this
Setting up a company in the US was more straightforward
also, your data is stored in the EU
Very nice guide!
I would add Jotta Cloud, from Norway.
It’s improving but still a lot of UX jank in Immich. The map feature still sucks 2 years on. Not sure the demo instance, full of bad images and images of half eaten plates of food, is doing uptake any favors. UX suffers from the whitespace gremlin, especially the menu.
Photoprism has much better UX but still some jank to address. Same whitespace gremlin in the menu. Neither solution has smart albums. Neither solution offers any convenience editing such as simply rotating a photo.
Immich can be elfhosted? I thought those little guys only host Santa’s stuff.
Honestly, the big one for me is finding a serious alternative to Lightroom
For me it is Darktable. After getting used to the workflow and a lot of quirks, it feels more powerfull than Lightroom. In Lightroom you push sliders, in Darktable you really get to know how things work.
But again, you need a lot of patience, time and YT-Tutorials (e.g. Boris Hajdukovic)
Ente can be self hosted. Otherwise, great info.
