How do you expose the service for your SO when away from home? Do you use tailscale/cloudflare tunnel/vpn? public port on your router? I've been trying tailscale for myself, but there's a hair more friction than my SO would accept.
But Immich is a great app, minimal to no fuss setting it up in a container on my NAS. My only potentially unfounded concern is when I upgrade the images. They changed the different component containers images over time, sometime with breaking changes. So I always half expect that an upgrade will screw up the setup and I’ll have to start from scratch with the indexing.
If I need to connect to another VPN or need to access some geo restricted page, then I need to disconnect tailscale.
Otherwise it's great, but I'm not sure I could convince my wife to use it.
I was also thinking about just reverse proxying my local instance to some public domain. But currently do not trust immich to be safe enough to allow for public exposure.
That minimizes battery impact. This missus hasn't complained. Yet.