Nonetheless, a positive move in the right direction!
I always wonder what people do with these photos. For me photos are utilitarian. I take a photo and immediately send it to my wife or friend, or upload it to my website for an article, or post it on Instagram or whatever, and then I no longer have any use for the photo on my devices. Once a year or so whenever my storage gets full, I just bulk-delete anything older than 6 months and if it hasn't been saved elsewhere for a specific purpose, then it's just gone forever. I don't miss it, because I already did what I wanted with it, so there's no need for me to keep it around.
What do you actually do with half a terabyte of photos?
Now I'm trapped just like most everyone else. Every photo is just "okay" in the moment but .. five years later the difference is so big.
99.999% of these "precious" photos are dumped in a hole and never looked at again. It feels silly to bother keeping it when I know I'm not going to sift through it.
All those hour-long videos of little-tyke sporting events shot from a million miles away... hahaha... still can't delete'm.
And as the other child comment mentions, my rate of photo production has increased exponentially since having kids.
Reminisce when you get old(er). Especially if you have children.
I have a homelab setup with my media server stuff and frigate (for security cameras), and they're only accessible via tailscale if I'm not at home. It would theoretically be easy enough to throw immich in there as well but I don't know how the app will behave when it can't reach the server half the time
Immich has automatic URL switching, so it detects which network it's on and select between the internal and external URLs. When I'm not on my home WiFi it switches to the Tailscale URL. Tailscale must be connected for this to work obviously.