Psht. I wish! This is wrong and will set people up for failure. There is absolutely hardware that will work well with Linux and hardware that will not.
I tend to run into problems with brand new laptops. Microphones don't work, web cams don't work, fingerprint readers don't work.
I have a Dell Dell Pro next to me with a web cam that doesn't work. Arch, btw.
I also have a Lenovo T14 where everything does work.
The point is you have to RESEARCH before you buy. Otherwise, you're gonna get mad a Linux for not supporting your hardware, instead of being mad at yourself for not researching first.
Hardware that's too old is problematic and hardware that's too new can be problematic.
If someone isn't motivated enough to actually think and create something, what makes you think they'll be motivated enough to maintain that thing they didn't create?
ImmichDownside: breaking changes are fairly common AFAIK
Uh... that's news to me. I've been hosting 2 user's photos for 1.5 years with absolutely zero breaking changes. I just updating from v2 to v3 and nothing broke.
CLAs are bad because the project can change the license whenever they feel like it. So Ente is effectively reserving the right to go full evil with their CLA.
Whereas Immich can't suddenly decide they want to move away from AGPLv3.
https://netbird.io/ for your own private network of trusted devices, it's free and doesn't require a separate Big Tech account to use (unlike Tailscale)
And then if you want to share Jellyfin with someone who isn't in your Netbird network... believe it or not, also Netbird
not the most reliable as in case of a house fire or a flood it will burn or drown along with the machine
Yup, or if someone breaks into your house and steals your computer.
My backup plan:
primary - a ZFS server at my house
secondary - an offsite ZFS server at a relative's house
primary takes ZFS snapshots periodically and sends encrypted snapshots to secondary
both are connected via netbird
The primary server is actually a bigger more powerful desktop, while the secondary is just a small, power-efficient, weak NAS that's just for storage. Small is good so you can hide it and it doesn't annoy your family member.
Most of the photos I take are junk photos: a picture of a receipt, a picture of a sprinkler model number, a picture of a random bug I saw while I was cleaning the pool. I just need these photos once and then I never need them again. I wish they would go away on their own.
Of course, there are also times when I do want to keep pictures, birthdays, vacations, etc.
I wish Immich (or someone) would create a camera with a switch that allows you to pre sort images into albums: permanent vs temporary
Of course, the Big Tech guys would never do this because they want you to store all of that junk on their clouds.
I’ll update this setup to use Shamir Secret Sharing more, where I’ll have three pins: my VPS (via Wireguard), a small computer somewhere else in my apartment, and a third at a neighbour (+ TPM on supporting computers).
with the skyrocketing cost of AI, my employer has been urging us to do as much as possible by hand lately
Meanwhile, my company has forgotten how to write bash scripts... More and more things that could just be bash scripts are being added as stupid Claude.md scripts.
Dev cycles now.