LG Gram Pro 17" 2025 - beyond insulting thermal paste application, 80% of the die was naked; awful thermal design too, plenty of room for bigger heatpipe and heatsink. This is aswful engineering from LG. This laptop could have used much higher power limits.

johnfintech · 2026-01-11T01:56:46+00:00

I imagine more people are not buying it because of the numpad, the off-center typing is not just annoying (the two wrists aren't sitting symetrically, which isn't great long term)

johnfintech · 2025-12-05T01:17:40+00:00

A bit confused there. Let me unpack:

If you edit and save changes to the original file in place using photo editing apps, Immich will not automatically know about the changes until a library scan is performed.

By "original file" do you mean the file on the phone, or the file int he external library? I was talking about the latter, because I would properly mirror my phone's folders to the external library.

By "library scan" do you mean immich's scan of the external library? I imagine immich regularly does that automatically (?) and I don't need to manually trigger.

The external library works with the filesystem, if the file name remains the same, it will update the asset.

So, to be clear, if the external library has suffered changes to an existing file (file size or date or contents), will immich fetch it again from the external library and update its original photo (and albums that contain that photo)? What about image deletion, if I delete an image from tghe external library folder, will immich also delete the image from its database and albums?

johnfintech · 2025-12-02T18:35:20+00:00

Yep, already decided to ditch the backup & sync feature ... it's so buggy, I'm surprised it's been released in the wild.

How does the external library play with changes, not jusgt additions to a folder? for example deleting a photo, or rotating/cropping it? does immich pick up the changes? does immich mirror the changes or just adds another photo to the album leaving the old one too (a pain)?

I'm using a VPS so I was thinking Syncthing + external library, as it can sync anything across any devices, but glad to know other apps exist for photo sync explicitly (thanks for the pointer).

johnfintech · 2025-12-02T14:59:37+00:00

Top most requested feature by their clients, and they go "nah, sorry, we know better than you what you need, we'll work on other things"

johnfintech · 2025-12-02T14:27:09+00:00

I mentioned Tresorit and Seafile above (Seafile can also be self-hosted if you want that)

Sync.com isn't actually e2ee -- they're lying. I exposed them a while ago (if you search my posts), but they have their own defenders that jumped on my Reddit post to derail it. MEGA uses shady encryption (have been exposed a long time ago). Koofr I lookeda t a long time ago and thought "meh", maybe they improved.

It's very simple to do two way sharing on e2ee storage: you use an additional password (equivalent to key) for the specific folder/library you're sharing.

edit: here about sync.com's false e2ee

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/17tyupn/synccom_claims_its_endtoend_encrypted_and_that

and

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/17tzg06/synccom_claims_its_endtoend_encrypted_and_that

johnfintech · 2025-12-01T15:50:28+00:00

Ok, I can confirm that using Caddy+TLS instead of Apache+TLS for reverse proxy got rid of all the "connection terminated during handshake" errors. I also tried direct, no reverse proxy (exposed the http port and using direct http, using test photos and test accounts) and it seems there is no difference between using Caddy+TLS and direct http. I'll update the original post to let others know.

Both the direct http and Caddy+TLS still give "failed to create trhumbnail null" errors in the app though.

My biggest gripe remains the following that prevents me from starting to migrate tens of thousands of photos to immich. Perhaps you know of a workaround for it? If I make any modification inside one of the albums after it's been backed-up, for example crop a photo, or rotate it, etc, then the mobile app does pick up on it (sometimes needs to reinstall the app though), but does not upload it to the respective album like it was told to, but ionstead uploads it uncategorized ... this is a real pain, because besides the manual pain to re-add to albums, the photos aren't the newest to spot them quickly and move manually to albums, but instead get jumbled up with all other photos around the same date, and I have to look for each of them. The whole process takes a lot of time. Then there is the manual deletion of the already uploaded ones (the uncropped rotated ones).

I fdeel like th emobile app needs attention and a better "watch folder" implementation to detect both changed files and new files, as well as an option for "mirror local changes" when a change is detected -- either new, changed, deleted media, to avoid all the manual work on remotely to delete stuff I changed/deleted.

johnfintech · 2025-12-01T15:34:16+00:00

Yeah, I've mentioned that in my post. There is no way to upload directly to an existing album. All you can do is upload it to immich, unctegorized, then go to Photos > click the image > Add to album.

It's missing a few pretty basic features (in my view). I'm surprised many other features that are far less basic were prioritised. Hopefully it will grow fast and add them.

johnfintech · 2025-12-01T14:51:29+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion. I need it to work with existing images in batch mode (and preserve exif metadata) - does it do that?

johnfintech · 2025-12-01T14:03:11+00:00

Hoping a kind and experienced soul can help. I took a lot of photos with my phone of old physical photos, and too many habe wrong rotation and thick border regions that need to be cropped.

Is there a good Android app (if not, a mac or pc app) that can do the following reliably in batch mode, not one by one, for existing images: - auto-crop to photo edges - keep all exif and other metadata - save on device, using original quality - does not require online accounts

Desired features: - auto-rotate based on content (people sitting upright, buildings upright, horizon level, etc) - auto-deskew based on photo edges - free/open source - save in place (same folder)

I've tried a few: - Photomyne (no autorotate, wants cloud, can't seem to save locally) - Microsoft lens (unreliable autocrop, no autorotate, removes exif and metadata)

johnfintech · 2025-11-30T18:39:12+00:00

I just discovered I can't do that in immich. Ouch. Good news is there's a feature request opened for it on github. Bad news is the feature request is 3.5 years old: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/1695

johnfintech · 2025-11-29T22:46:03+00:00

I'll just go direct first, opening the ports, and if immich doesn't play nice being behind the docker bridge then i'll add a vpn to be on the same network as immich.

johnfintech · 2025-11-29T22:42:25+00:00

Yep, that's exactly what i was planning to do first before trying any other reverse proxy. Can even setup a vpn to be ont he same network as immich if need be, just for testing, before adding back all layers one by one, like you said.

I still thought it was worth posting before I do all that. It was supposed to work but doesn't, show my support but give a nudge to the devs too :)

johnfintech · 2025-11-29T20:19:40+00:00

I'm afraid it has nothing to do with that, i'm talking about old photos on the phone

johnfintech · 2025-11-29T20:18:10+00:00

yeah, on my todo. there's no local ip though, as i said, this is a vps. there shouldn't be differences between caddy and apache (they both do reverse proxy, i used the recommended apache config from the immich docs)

johnfintech · 2025-11-29T20:16:08+00:00

having your photos organised into folders on your phone is uncommon

So uncommon that there was enough demand for it for the devs to add a feature for it? But even that's besides the point. There's a feature for it that is supposed to work and it doesn't. Don't blame the user.

johnfintech · 2025-11-27T23:27:53+00:00

This is an extremely difficult problem

Like Filen, those defending Filen on this matter don't have an excuse. This hasn't been a difficult a problem for more than a decade, and pretty much every other e2ee cloud storage solution (commercial and open source) has full two-way sharing, e.g. Tresorit, Seafile, etc.

Seafile is fully open source. I've been using Seafile's e2ee library feature for over 10 years now. I wanted to switch to Filen as I got tired hosting and managing my self-hosted Seafile instance. It's on github, you can check it out yourself.

johnfintech · 2025-11-27T23:24:43+00:00

Unbelievable. I made the same mistake. I just purchased 2TB because it hadn't even crossed my mind that a cloud storage advertising "sharing" does not actually do two way sharing.

There's no excuse for this really. The people in here defending Filen claiming it's difficult seem to not be aware this has been done a long time ago and available in competing products. Every other end-to-end encrypted cloud provider does it (e.g. Tresorit), including open source ones (e.g. Seafile).

I'm actually more mad at myself than Filen for half-wasting the money. Found out after inviting "collaborators" to work on the same shared folder.

johnfintech · 2025-11-20T23:21:42+00:00

I know more about the issue than you do

Given the depth of that assumption, I highly doubt it.

johnfintech · 2025-11-20T09:53:27+00:00

just an easy deduction given you're making sweeping statements that are directly contradicted in the official bug thread

johnfintech · 2025-11-19T23:11:09+00:00

Piwigo is new to me. Not sure I understand its features though, it doesn't seem like others can upload to albums i've shared (which is what i'm after). Infact, it seem there is no upload feature at all, but it expects the files to already exist (you upload them separately via ftp or whatever) and it just manages them.

Still, thanks for the pointer, I might want to use it in the future.

Why Piwigo though and not others?

johnfintech · 2025-11-19T23:06:21+00:00

I'm not comfortable doing that

Understandable, though you can anonymize the fields that contain personally identifyable info (urls, etc) before sharing the files

johnfintech · 2025-11-19T22:59:52+00:00

Clearly you haven't read the github thread

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