alt Hacker NewsImmich is great, but I like Ente more because of the E2E encryption. I don't trust that someday my hardware wouldn't get stolen and all photos get in possession of someone else.
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I like Ente's E2EE for hosting on a remote server.
In my case I want to host on my personal server at home, so it feels actually nicer to not have E2EE. I basically would like to have the photos of all my family members on a hard disk that they could all access if needed (by plugging it into their computer).
Ente looks interesting and worth looking into, thanks for mentioning it.
In the context of having a phone stolen, it's possible to at least limit the damage and revoke accesses via the Tailscale control server. Then the files on device are still vulnerable, but not everything in Immich (or whatever other service is running).
Why not encrypt your server? Or store the photos on an encrypted partition?
I'm much more worried about the Ente install getting broken for some reason and my pictures being locked and lost, than a burglar stealing a hard disk in my basement.
That's why I like how Photoprism just uses my files as they are without touching them (I think immich can do that as well now, but it wasn't so in the past). I can manage the filesystem encryption myself if I want to.