I am migrating from Syno Photos, which had been the greatest solution I had found, now to Immich, which is so polished and sharing is 10x easier than in Syno. The only gripe to Syno Photos is their implementation of Public/Personal space which is confusing and if you want to share something you have to store duplicate photos in those spaces. I used conditional albums to share certain faces with the partner and it has been OK.

Now it’s 100% Immich for me:

• Clean, intuitive interface
• Easy sharing
• Very good face detection, better than Google (I compared the same pics I uploaded to both)
• Easy transition for a Google Photos user
• FOSS, you’re in full control over the deployment
• Machine learning container to tag pictures
• CLI interface to mass upload

Both galleries claim motion photos support, but for me neither actually works. Immich claims iPhone’s Live Photos, which I don’t care for, but Syno Photos say that in version DSM7 support Android Motion Pics, that I could not confirm.

I recently started dumping all my photos at Immich. WIth every release it becomes greater and greater. I donated to the developer to keep it going. And I need to make a script to automate the DB backup

I use ACL where I add my home/work IPs as well as a few commonly used VPNs IPs as well. Cloudflare clocks known bots for me. Don’t see anything in the server logs, but I do see attempts on the CF side.

If your book on Kindle is DRM protected, you need Calibre + DeDRM plugin.

I ripped all my books from Kindle before moving to another e-book reader