Immich is the must for self-hosting photos. Bye Google.

Tillix is the way.

Ah sorry man. I didn’t spot it.

Currently running NixOS with Debian and Arch containers in distrobox. Certain apps in NixOS (e.g. Calibre) don’t respect the scaling in Gnome, but work perfectly via distrobox. Btw, there’s a nice GUI for distrobox called Boxbuddy that works really well.

I’m using Immich in Nixos. It’s simple. Takes about 10 mins. You need to set Docker up in your configuration.nix then set Immich up using docker compose. Let me know if you need a hand getting it going.

That is very true. I’ve got Tailscale setup and I can get into it through that. Unfortunately I can’t put Tailscale on my work machines, so having access via the web would be useful.

Thanks a lot. Whereabouts do I add it to Nginx? Do I need to do this through the dashboard for the proxy host or is there something in docker that I need to add?

Ah, thank-you so much!

Yeah see I’m not even sure what the env vars are. I’m running it with docker-compose and the only alterations I’ve made to anything are to add my IP address to the config file in the trusted domains array. That’s definitely where it needs to go because if I take it out then it flops hard.

Actually this fixed it. Thanks! They can access if I share it but NOT if I add them as a user and then share it. I had to delete them as a user first 🤷‍♂️

Even that doesn’t work. I’ve made them an admin on the machine but they get a message saying they already have access to it. But … they don’t!

It’s the Tailscale IP. I can connect to it no problem.

Yep. It says they are a member of my network. But no dice.

I’m not that tech savvy, and iDrive is cheap 🤣

Yeah I think it works on Fedora ok. I spoke to customer service, but they told me I was out of luck with Nixos.

Oh cool. For some bizarre reason iDrive ask you to email them to get the link for the scripts. But you can get them here: https://www.idrive.com/online-backup-linux-download So just download the scripts, install Distrobox, and pull the Debian 12 image. Then enter the Distrobox Debian and navigate to the scripts. Change the permissions (chmod a+x *.pl) and execute the account_settings.pl script. I think I got an error about perl, but I just installed it myself (sudo apt install perl) and carried on. I think I might have had another error at some point but I just ran it again and it all pulled through properly. And now my Distrobox is on my iDrive dashboard and everything works properly. Just remember that if you reboot you might need to go back into the Distrobox and execute account_settings.pl again, but because everything’s already installed it will just ask you to login, and that’s it - you’re back online. Good luck!

Yeah, the personal backup and sync. Sorry, I didn’t think to make it clear.

The scripts are loooooooong. And the main problem for me is that Nixos doesn’t use the FHS, so it’s difficult to use standard .deb files.

I didn’t look much into this. I think (but could very well be wrong) that it only works with their S3/E2 packages. And I wanted all the config options provided by the official scripts.

Thanks to you I have today discovered Kavita. It’s excellent!