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I value it more on cinematic, designed and directed experiences like my movies on 4K Blu-ray than in anything I do on my PC so I guess I never really missed it on Linux. In my limited experience with Windows HDR it can be wonky too

Okay find me one with Dolby Vision

Forget trying to get a dumb TV at least if you care about quality. Just don’t connect it to the Internet - if you really are paranoid crack it open and disconnect the WiFi antenna.

No. Typically the “straight” guy in this kind of thing is the one penetrating.

I’m sure it exists but having the straight guy be the bottom is not the norm in that genre.

You can typically replace the battery inside the UPS (and should every few years). Looking at $40-50USD for “official” replacements, less for questionable third party ones.

Because as a headless server it’s likely to sit hidden for a long time. This and the always being plugged in is not good for lithium-ion batteries. If/when it starts ballooning will you notice? It’s a fire risk.

UPSes use typically lead-acid batteries like a car.

Heck yeah. Not always the best for power efficiency though.

Old laptops also a great choice but I really recommend removing the battery first.

You’re off by some orders of magnitude.

It’s 0.005%

But that’s based off of the 1.1 billion number I saw. Somehow I very much doubt there’s 1.1 billion people with accounts who login and browse at least once a month.

When you search for a community just pick the biggest one. Really all there is to it. Honestly reddit had the same issue with similarly named subs

Yeah I don’t get it at all. It’s a non-issue.

Unless you have a reason to otherwise just search for the topic you want and pick the biggest. Just. Like. Reddit.

On Reddit there’s tons of very similar named communities out there it’s fine.

I just have a script that checks my IP every few minutes and changes the DNS record as necessary

I’m not looking to become a sysadmin

And that’s fine and understandable. But I don’t think that Immich is for you. It’s not consumer-grade software. It’s a piece of Linux server software that requires occasional maintenance and administration. We haven’t seen a breaking update in a while but Immich does occasionally release updates where things will break if you don’t dig in to the config files and reconfigure it.

If you’re self hosting then you could just copy all the files from your server onto an external drive. I have to say that’s not a great backup solution though, and you should learn more about administration of Linux servers so that when things break you can fix them. I wouldn’t rely on it as a safe solution to your photos otherwise.

Are you paying for Immich somewhere? Then you’d have to trust the administrator to back your data up. I had assumed you were self hosting and by managed services I meant like Google Photos, or indeed someone else’s Immich setup.

You should have a backup solution for your server that should cover this, without that you should probably stick with managed photo backup services.

Well yeah you could go on the site and select whatever photos and hit download I suppose.

If anyone’s interested, here’s my Immich backup script. You setup rclone to use an S3 storage service like BackBlaze which is quite cheap. I also use a crypt which means RClone will encrypt and decrypt all files to/from the server. S3 configuration and crypt setup.

Then set this up as a cron job. With the “BACKUP_DIR” option when you delete a photo it will get moved to the “deleted” folder. You can go into your S3 provider’s lifecycle settings and have these get deleted after a number of days. I do 10 days. Or you can skip that and they’ll be gone forever.

#!/bin/bash
SRC_PATH="/path/to/immich/library"
DEST_REMOTE="b2crypt:immich-photos/backup"
BACKUP_DIR="b2crypt:immich-photos/deleted"
RCLONE_OPTIONS="--copy-links --update --delete-during --backup-dir=$BACKUP_DIR --suffix `TZ='America/New_York' date +%Y-%m-%d`.bak --verbose"
rclone sync $SRC_PATH $DEST_REMOTE $RCLONE_OPTIONS

Yeah new users are like, semi-shadow banned for a while

You’d be shocked to hear that much the same is true of many or even MOST of the world’s largest companies.