I can’t compare it to pigallery, but imo it really isn’t fully usable. Lots of bugs for me. I’m still running it but waiting for it to be ready to replace Google photos. It has transcoding errors in the logs and file tracking issues (extra files). All of my recent motion photos are not detected. And I have read on GitHub that they are still working on fleshing out automated repair tasks.

As someone that’s never used any of those services, what’s the difference between this and bypass paywalls clean?

Add each hardware NIC to its own Linux bridge. Add two VNICs to the opnsense VM. In proxmox gui, assign an address to the LAN Linux bridge for the management interface. That’s what I do and I’ve had no problems for over a year. It works fine with near 1gbps symmetrical connection.

As a lurker I mostly just vote. But gotta post every once in a while to add to active users stat!