I’m using bcache, and I’m using btrfs as the filesystem on top of it. I’m not sure that the way I’ve done it is considered best practice anymore. The discourse online is a mess because the landscape keeps evolving.

https://evilpiepirate.org/git/linux-bcache.git/tree/Documentation/bcache.txt

2 of my 4x 4TB spinning drives are portable. 2 in mirrored raid, and on-site backup, and an off-site backup. If you don’t have it on 3 drives across two sites, you don’t have it. 5400RPM is fine as long as you allocate some of that NVMe as a cache for it. Keep all high-transaction stuff like databases, thumbnail caches and indexes on the NVMe drive. Going to 7200RPM just increases power consumption and noise, and reduces reliability.

The other specs seems fine, but I personally upgrade my desktop then take the old CPU, RAM and motherboard to use for my server.

Immich and Nextcloud run fine on my 2015 Core i5 with 16GB RAM.

My 6th gen iPad is the only Apple product I own. It’s also the only device that refuses to connect to my WiFi. I was going to make it a wall panel, but it’s shit.

My wife bought the $100 digital wall calendar from KMart and it hooked up to my CalDav server. I was surprised that it showed zero dark patterns. No vendor lock-in. No ads. No spying.

There’s Nexcloud and the “Memories” plugin. It’s not as good as Immich though, especially if you don’t need the rest of NextCloud.

Not even Torvalds himself would lash out at NVidia 😄

The worst I had was a credential-stuffer bot that used a set of leaked credentials to get on my mail server and send spam. I changed the password within 5 minutes and it stopped. That was the end of it.

Once I had someone deface a website because wordpress wasn’t patched. I just restored the site from backup and moved on with life.

I would think that most of the time, you just join a botnet.

BUT someone getting into your email can let them do password resets to all your accounts. Then again, I self-host my email because all mail providers are reading your email by default. I’d still rather self-host it.

You can still just open it to the internet. Just do it on IPv6 instead. You won’t find it by scanning IP ranges like they do on IPv4. You’ll want to set up DNS for it though. Also get a free TLS cert from LetsEncrypt. It’s a bit of work initially.

I saw the JXL article recently. It’s good progress. Didn’t a major browser remove JXL support after it was added?

I’m on Ubuntu gnome. I think the biggest outlier was LibreOffice, which didn’t support any modern formats.

Voyager on GrapheneOS (Android 17)

Strangely enough, the AVIF is displaying now.

Ubuntu server.

I found a dude maintaining a deb repo. I might give that a shot.

It’s kinda nuts that people have got it working and fully automates the packaging, but immich haven’t taken it on.

You’ve demonstrated my point perfectly 😆

I’ve really wanted to ditch JPEG. It’s a 34 year old format.

The problem is that AVIF, JPEG-XL and HEIC/HEIF don’t work in many places. At a minimum I would want them to display in my gallery app (currently Nextcloud memories), display in a browser, and have native support at an OS level (i.e thumbnail previews). Neither format comes close to this.

I may even move away from Nextcloud over it. I didn’t want to deploy docker just for immich (I love LAMP, btw). However Nextcloud is SO MUCH maintenance compared to the 50 other services running on my server.

You don’t need to delete them entirely. You can convert a 5MB/22 megapixel JPEG to a 500KB/2 megapixel AVIF that looks 95% as good when viewed on a phone screen.

Of course, I have no idea if immich can do this. It would be nice though.

I have only ever played Arc on Linux since launch. Never had an issue. I last played it less than two weeks ago.