the reason OP was thinking of doing this, was saving disk space and avoiding buying another hdd. So if it’s a 1:1 full disk image, then there’s almost no difference with the costs of raid1. Setting exclusions, avoiding certain big files, and so on. In this case he’s talking about restic, which can restore data but very hard to do a full bootable linux system - stuff needs to be reinstalled

i was also thinking like this, then i had to restore everything from a backup when the ssd suddenly died. I wasted so much time setting everything back as before

When I did it, I did it manually with thunderbird, which is a great way to delete clutter meanwhile

Just select 1000 emails at a time and drop them in another IMAP server folder

It’s dangerous and you can blew it if you don’t know what are you doing but by shorting two specific pins, it’s possible to turn on the PSU and see it it’s working or not

Did you use a vacuum on the fans and let them spin during the clean?

Yes, it depends. In my case my server is underpowered so I didn’t like how much resources other galleries used (not only immich but also librephotos, photoprism)

I really like Ente.

Disadvantages:

• the photos that you’re self hosting are encrypted so if you want to have good sleeps you need to do daily exports
• Videos are also encrypted so no transcoding is possible. Client needs to download whole file before starting play (they say they have a solution coming for this)
• ML stuff is done client side so if you had a beefy server it will sit unused
• Exact duplicates are catched immediately (hash comparison before upload) but visual duplicates detection is trickier. Clients have a feature to find duplicates but it’s not as good as other software

Advantages:

• requires very little resources. The web album is static HTML and you can host it anywhere, even on GitHub pages, for free. Photos are saved in any S3 server, I chose garage. Then it has a postgresql database and a very light coordinator service. In total takes like 100mb of RAM.
• All the ML stuff is done on the client side when you’re browsing your photos so you don’t need a powerful server (on mobile devices it’s disabled by default in order to not kill the battery)
• Desktop client can be set to automatically backup all your photos in background
• Desktop client can be set to bidirectional sync a directory. Add or delete files from gallery automatically
• Mobile client takes track of what’s uploaded and can remove local files if a cloud backup is present (not automatically, need to press the “free up space” button
• Because it uploads to S3 and S3 natively supports chunked uploads you can upload files bigger than 100mb if using cloudflare free (immich uses a workaround for this but only works on desktop)
• Uploads are resumable
• Doesn’t have breaking changes where you need to use specific docker images like other galleries

If you pay them, they host it for you: one copy on B2, one copy on wasabi and a backup on scale way.

If you don’t pay them, you need to provide a S3 compatible endpoint for storage, a postgresql database and a coordinator. Doesn’t need fancy stuff

I think 5 years ago, on Ubuntu

64 gb of ecc ram (48gb cache used by zfs) with 2tb drives (3 of them)

I have similar speeds on a truenas that I installed on a simple i3 8100

One day I had a power outage and I wasn’t able to mount the btrfs system disk anymore. I could mount it in another Linux but I wasn’t able to boot from it anymore. I was very pissed, lost a whole day of work

it is now a non issue

IMHO it’s still a big issue that might lead to data loss to someone else. The Windows client should be hardcoded to refuse syncing in onedrive folder.

Someone should reproduce this in a VM and open a GitHub issue

Edit: they already know this since a couple years, and the same happens on MacOS https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop/issues/4276

Illegal but tolerated: just think to all the Chinese companies thriving on Facebook ads sales

They crack down on it only when they need to punish a specific target/person

When you enter China, you have to run their application on your phone to fill the immigration form. Way more convenient compared to the paper slip, right? 😉

It’s this https://apkpure.com/zhong-guo-ling-shi/com.gov.mfa

Luckily, you don’t need to install full malware but only medium malware, there’s a way to run it as a web app inside tencent WeChat by scanning a special qr code.

I run this stuff inside insular because tencent is tencent and even on fully patched Android 15 without any file access permission they still manage to drop fingerprinting files disguised as images in /pictures/.gs_fs0

For connecting to my servers, technically ssh on standard ports isn’t blocked (otherwise it would hurt their bots, no?) but I don’t want to show my server IP address, so I use a hysteria2 proxy hosted on a Oracle VM in the Japan datacenter. There are services like doggygo that rent access to those proxys for literal pennies (like $2 per month) but payment need to do with alibaba’s alipay or tencent wepay which is ultra traceable (linked to Chinese id+Chinese bank account+Chinese phone number) and very stupid. Honeypot?

There are reports of evil maid attacks where a secret service agent poses as room cleaner in your hotel room and tampers with your laptop when you’re away, but for normal people this seems unlikely. Keep your electronics with you at all times, always use a VPN, check hashes of executables if really need to run them (better not) and you’re going to be ok

Raid wasn’t designed for data safety but to minimize downtime. Just swap the drive an continue operating the server seamlessly. Full backups are still required as the chance of complete failure isn’t zero

It’s still in alpha but hoarder is promising

It’s designed to organize bookmarks, but can also support markdown notes with picture (a single picture, not multiple pictures)

Unfortunately at the moment the mobile app is so alpha that doesn’t support creation or editing such notes, only new bookmarks or new photos.

It uses a headless chromium to make screenshots for URLs.

Optionally, can use a bullshit generator like ollama or openai api keys to automatically create a lot of useless tags to each note

What I’ve been doing:

Easy option: because I only have around 40gb of music, I sync it between my PC and my phone using syncthing since 128gb is the minimum nowadays

Hard option: streaming is cooler so I installed nextcloud with an optional plugin called “music” which allows to connect an app called “ultramusic” and it becomes “self hosted Spotify” with android auto support and all the bells and whistles. Disadvantage: Nextcloud is a moving target. For some reason they have to release new incompatible versions every two or three months. So for plugin developers this is a very annoying upgrade threadmill that eventually leads to burnout and that plugin dies. Even officially supported plugins sometimes don’t support the latest version when they launch it. If you choose to use nextcloud with docker, make sure to stay behind 1-2 versions (tag nextcloud:28 when nextcloud:30 is released) or your plugins might suddenly break without any warning. According to fanboys this is the industry standard nowadays and it’s up to the user to manually check the GitHub issues of each of the 30 plugins if it’s compatible before updating. Even if it’s official plugin. They call it “stable” but they mean “beta testing for the paid enterprise version”.

that’s good, didn’t notice that

yes but the old docker requires the old licenses that aren’t on sale anymore to share more than 10 directories or other QOL improvements

It says “unlimited file sync is a $5 in-app unlock” so I’m guessing they can make money. Main problem is the apple developer fees that will eat the profit of the first 25 sales each year