This serves as a great reminder for me to set up Immich when I get time, and a reason/excuse to purchase a better GPU. I have been uneasy with my dependence on Google for a while now.

[EDIT]: the following was intended as a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45168333

I understand the author's point against the perceived complexity of 1-5 star rating systems, but it's worthy of note that star ratings are extremely common (ubiquitous?) in more advanced photo management/editing software such as Darktable and Lightroom. As a photographer, I see why the feature might have been included.

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aidenn0 5 days ago | parent [-]

Does Immich have features that need a high-end GPU? I hosted it on a machine with a 1050Ti, and see others in this comment section mentioning using a RPi.

	▲	LeFantome 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Mine is running as a container on an old Mac Pro 2013 (running Proxmox). My GPU is not even as good as yours. It runs great. The “beta timeline” required hashing that took forever but this was on my wife’s iPhone and nothing to do with the back-end (she has 50,000 photos). The machine-learning stuff uses the GPU. Facial recognition for example. It takes longer on low-end hardware but I am not sure why that is a problem.
	▲	tracker1 4 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		The image categorization can use GPU acceleration, many seem to be noting it runs well enough on CPU mode even on modest hardware, but importing say hundreds of gigs may take longer for classification (ingress) steps.
	▲	jazzyjackson 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It runs great in a container on my synology NAS which has no GPU at all.