I came from Nextcloud to syncthing, you’re in the right place.

Wireshark is the best way as it’ll show you exactly what’s going on; DNS addresses, traffic type, etc. (But not inside encrypted packets)

But to do that it (you) need to see all the traffic between the ceiling light and the internet, so if you’re on wifi and it’s on wifi, that won’t work.

Hopefully your router has the ability to either do a packet capture, or, mirror traffic to a physical port.

I have a FP3 and ditched most of the standard apps for anything else from fdroid… that helped me.

Or was it the firmware you’re referring to?

… it’s a policy driven hell

Yep, I have a Fairphone… it can operate with an unlocked boot loader…

I’m not an Android developer, but reading more it seems that where I thought the modular kernel would allow patching, it does seem to be a monolithic compiled object.

So, ok, I could probably dig out the source for AOSP / LineageOS patches, but possibly not for the GKI.

I wish we could just download & apply these hotfixes and patches ourselves…

Surely it’s only device drivers that really need to come from the manufacturer?

Yeah, Point 1 here is exactly why I moved from Ubuntu to Arch ~10 years ago.

I was trying to get something working and found that the bug / feature had been fixed ~1 year earlier, but that version wasn’t in the repos… I couldn’t move forwards.

With Arch, all is well. And, I’m either reporting new bugs and helping to get things fixed, or I’m updating the wiki with any changes I notice.

What’s pingmynetwork like to actually use?

We supply Udemy and CBT Nuggets to our team and they’re not enough to pass the exam(s)

Can someone pass from only that source?

Thanks. Not sure why you’re getting downvoted for linking to the source with the actual IOCs…

To answer your first bit:

I went owncloud --> nextcloud --> syncthing + radicale.

Not looked back.

I run everything through a proxy in my home-built pfsense box.

You’re doing fine.

After seeing someone at work burnout, I’ll offer this advice:

Find what you enjoy doing and do nothing more (today). Itch only 1 scratch at a time.

As an analogy - consider you’ve moved into a newly built house and have an empty garden. No-one would expect you to create that perfectly first time around. Esp. in 1 weekend. It needs time to grow. Some things will need cutting down, some things will need moving. Animals will crap on it.

I think you’re trying to make it perfect, first time around. Perhaps as a fear of doing it “wrong”.

There is no wrong, it’s all a learning experience, doing things good enough for now and improving / breaking things later.

Ensure you know how to backup your files (3-2-1 rule) and the rest doesn’t matter.

I’ve re-written my ansible scripts a few times, but over months and years as I’ve learned what works best for my system.

For example, I had 1 complete script for each device. I can wipe the device (get it back on the network) and rebuild with no effort…

… then I realised that most of the scripts had very similar parts to tweak SSH and other settings, so then I learned how to call scripts from within scripts, which also meant using variables (facts) to work out if this is a 32b or 64b RasPi (for example)

That probably took 3 months

But I enjoy sitting in my garden and looking at it…

Longterm MythTv user here, watching the discussions

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I want to search for a blog on this now…

Not arguing with you, it’s just a choice.

The question was whether Immich had to be executed from within a container system… and it doesn’t have to.

I guess that’s true.

I’m running it outside of a container and outside a VM… as there’s no abstraction layer on top of the underlying OS. Which I guess is inside the bare metal.

So, Yep.

I’m running it bare metal on my NAS.

No problems, plus I don’t have to do extra container stuff.

I’ve not seen that option, but I use syncthing instead of the phone application to sync my photos to a specific folder on my NAS which is then an external library for Immich.

TBH, I don’t want anything deleting anything automatically.

I’ll often delete newer pictures of temporary stuff but keep older pictures of my frinds & family, so, that’s not a feature I’d see any value in. It tends to just make me lazy and build up GBs of junk photos on my NAS (and backups…)

For Bitlocker? Good point, OP would probably need that for the new mobo’s TPM.

Using DHCP?

Windows stores static network configs in the registry, so with the new mobo’s NIC(s) if you try to set a static IP, Windows will complain that it already exists. Not a biggie as you’d just have to search the registry… if you’re using DHCP no problem.

Not quite clear there…

You’re copying data from the source, to harddrives… and then to a server with different drives?

Assuming it’s just lots of smallish data files / media and not OS files (ie don’t need symlinks, attributes, ownership, etc) then any backup software which generates hashes to be able to repair the archive during a restore would do.

Btrfs doesn’t need LVM, but I wouldn’t use that on mobile drives.

Or… is this one huge 80TB file?