Picasa died a long, long time ago. Must work offline.
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.
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...