#homegallery — Public Fediverse posts on home.social

https://home-gallery.org/ is really quite nice for browsing a media archive going back over 2 decades. While setup in #rootless #dockercompose was slightly more annoying than I would have liked (permissions of bind-mounts in the non-root containers), I now have a #saltstack setup that allows me to deploy it (with rootless docker) within a few minutes on any new host, including #systemd timer based daily incremental update of the media index.

Initial indexing is slow-ish (>80.000 images with a whopping total of >250GB sitting on a RAIDZ array of spinning disks took over half a week to generate thumbnails and index files of 42GB), but afterwards accessing is pleasantly fast even from smartphones through a VPN tunnel, and the cross-referencing by time or location as well as face recognition or "likeness" of images (not ideal in terms of accuracy, but a pretty good start) gives my family a totally new way of browsing at photo collections.

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