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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • There are two things that hold me to Windows (10) as my daily driver: MS Office, and support for a virtual file synchronization a la Nextcloud (which I presume piggybacks off of what MS built for OneDrive.)

    My secondary laptop, my 4 year old’s laptop, my gaming device (Steam deck), homelab, are all on Linux. It has been fun to learn Linux and it’s what I intend for my kid to grow up on.

    Eventually, when I get a new laptop (current is 8 years old and I’m really hoping Framework gen 2 has a touchscreen) it’ll be Linux first… And I hope Nextcloud gets that virtual file sync going by then because a network share/WebDAV connection will make me sad.












  • Oh man. Of all the self-hosted projects to not grasp, you picked the darling.

    The creator of Immich had the same use case that got me in to self hosting:

    1. A new family with child.
    2. A whole lot of photos and video to share between the spouse and with extended family.
    3. Ballooning Google (One) photos costs, to which I asked: am I going to pay this forever? Storage also caps out at 2 tb, which we are using more than.
    4. A growing discontent with the idea of every family moment being harvested by a tech company I do not like.

    At the core - Immich allows me a continuity of service and saves money while keeping spousal approval at the required levels.