Continuing, my apple to immich experience, spending a lot of time on my immich bash terminal, I often had the need to look at my photos but bash is headless of course.
Yes, of course immich is a browser based photo server of course, but often I found myself needing to look at some specific photo more quickly without finding it wihin the immich gui.
Enter chafa2
I had the need and an idea of just using maybe ascii art to help and found someone had already done this and it was called chafa! Image to text redefined haha.
Here is an example I had looked up at one point.
chafa --colors=8 --symbols=ascii --size=100x40 '/mnt/immich-storage/library/blah/blah/blah/2025/2025-04-24/2025-04-24 23.40.18.jpg'
One more example, of a nice house.
