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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

My use case:

I use a Synology NAS to backup my photos/videos. On mobile, I use the Synology Photos app for 100% of the backups, because it's been 100% reliable for me over the years.

I basically run Immich in read-only mode, and specifically for searches. The contextual search is incredible, and after putting it side-by-side with a very expensive Windows software that uses local AI search, it came out on top... no contest.

So in that sense, I'm very happy!

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Silly question, how does immich read from NAS? Is that a native functionality or do you mount it in docker?

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Yes, when you mount the external library (when setting up docker), you can set it as read-only. 👌

[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Same here. Their recent antics has made me nervous about staying with them. But their photo software is great.