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Self-hosting services has been a life-changer. And I thank this community for helping me a lot recently. Not only did I learn a lot more about linux, network and docker, but it helped me understand better how platforms and advertising just f*cked up the internet I grew up with.

But I wonder: do any of you hate how self-hosting services like photo- or document-management systems, or even a simple rss tool, forces you to sort your stuff out, and put your decades old files in order?!

I'm in the process of migrating my web browser bookmarks to linkding because it's a GREAT tool. But I have like 2k websites to manualy check wether they're still there, wonder at how cool they still are, tag properly and archive with SingleFile!

And that's just ONE service...

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[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm frustrated that Immich doesn't have a "back up new photos only" option.

All the photos on my phone are already in a huge external library with my backups from previous phones. I don't want to delete them from my phone just so immich doesn't freak out, and I don't wanna have them on my NAS twice
Immich seems great, but this seems like the bread and butter migration path that nearly everyone would take.

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

When I got a new phone, immich was weird about the photos that came over when I transferred my phone data. After I confirmed they were all backed up (in like 3 places) I just nuked the copies pictures and videos from my phone.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago

I don't want to nuke them from my phone though. I want them on my phone, and I want them on my NAS 1 time.