Local facial recognition photo app to find old photos of me

See if Digikam's to your liking. It's a desktop app and works offline. https://www.digikam.org/

Face recognition docs: https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/digikam-doc/digikam/using-dig...

Yes, I have been missing Picasa too.

I literally miss their timeline, albums and other cool editing features too.

Doing on webapps is cumbersome and slow.

if you are looking for apple/google alternative checkout ente.io

Check out photoprism. Kind of like a self hosted alternative to Google Photos.