The shameful answer is that the most convenient method of setting up immich is a docker compose stack but I have podman installed instead.

WOW man this is just incredible. I had actually finished setting up syncthing and syncing with it but this is just so much smoother. Syncthing is nice but it has some weirdness. Like this app’s “copy local to remote” (instead of sync) is hidden in advanced configuration while it seems like a useful use case to be.