A Self-Hosted Alternative to iCloud Photos

Posted on in iCloud, photoprism, software

Everybody takes photos on their mobile phone these days, and everyone wants to share pictures with friends and family. Modern phones has great cameras, filters, color corrections and even AI adjustments. Why Leave the Cloud Everybody has either iPhone or an Android phone, and we use their platform to share photos with friends and family. This all works good. But everyone likes to have a choice. You can host your own photos online.

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Self-Hosting Photoprism

Posted on in infrastructure, photoprism, software

Summary No. Photoprism runs on docker, and docker only supports the latest 2 versions of macOS. Just because the system requirements are not met I can not give up that easy. I am running Docker Desktop for intel on a MacBook Pro 15’ 2015. This machine runs on macOS 11 Big Sur. This is software is too old for the latest Docker, but docker desktop 4.24.4 is supported. The files are stored on a NAS.

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