Live fast and die young. Don’t ever slow down. If the account locks, then it locks.

So what you want is a self hosted Flickr alternative, with extra privacy?

Please let me know your findings, I’m very interested even though I’m not in a position to contribute.

If you don’t want to go to a proper VM solution like Proxmox or TrueNAS, Mint is still on X so you can SSH into it and run graphical apps through it. Runs remarkably well.

I know, which is why it would be extra helpful.

Yeah, I fumbled that one.

I mean I’m suggesting it. There isn’t one.

Number of Drive bays is also a neat filter.

Just an admission of incompetence on my part. I got the NAS up and running, but for the life of me, couldn’t set up a single docker service. No Jellyfin, Immich, pihole, nada.

Btw I’m serious about hiring. If this interests you, we can work details.

I could see this being a use case for a NixOS deployment where your company manages the configuration file and versioning of the system, as well as providing support. Over time, I’d you’re diligent about building documentation based off of each support request, you’ll end up with a personalized guide. And if your customer decides take a break or quit entirely, they have a configured system that doesn’t lock them in into something too esoteric.

Disclaimer: I only know of Nix, never used it because I just don’t manage that many machines to be worth my while to learn it.

I’d buy your services to configure my TrueNAS server right now.

Missed LDAP, bot.

I don’t value my content all that much.

Thank you for your service.

Windows executables are really shady.

Wild

I don’t get it.

ZFS.

My bad. Fixed.

We hold these truths to be self evident

Those are definitely words.

Edit: what I learned:

• OpenSMTPD is the default OpenBSD “sendmail”
• Dovecot is an IMAP server
• Rspamd - basic very complex spam filter
• Rainloop is a webmail interface for the trio.

Best I can do is an old school horizontal desktop with two 3.5 and one 2.5 plus a boot NVMe.

I see. I don’t know how big or small your dev team is, but sometimes a small-screen PWA might be easier to maintain than having one app for each mobile OS out there.

That’s just like, your opinion, man.

How rich and functional is the web app?

Some people have different requirements. Some have been burned by a program becoming obsolete or migrating between programs and finding out getting their data was (at least initially) beyond their capabilities. Some don’t see the tradeoff of having true rich text as worth it.

I’m not in that camp, but I can see the appeal.

Not to mention fixing it in Immich isn’t possible. What that donut fails to see is that the only way this is acceptable to OSM is because of the proxy to lower the demand on their servers. Unless they’re suggesting reimplementing a proxy inside Immich, which is way beyond the scope of a “simple patch”.

I can see that as a paid premium feature. There are costs to host anything.

Using other computing devices may be possible but more like a development project than just installing.

Don’t forget the impact of the Black Panthers. MLK gets the press today because the power doesn’t want people to get the right idea.

I’m really curious about the motivation behind such permissive licensing too.

The project is yours, you can always distribute a commercially licensed version of it regardless. GPL or any other license will never be a hindrance.

The only thing a permissive license does is allowing everyone else to issue commercial versions of it without even sharing source code.

Open source or bust

The requirements for a media server mesh well with a NAS and *arr suite and other light loads. Low CPU demand, some RAM demand, integrated GPU if you need transcoding and that’s it.

They are wildly different from generative AI. For good performance, you’ll want a decent GPU with loads of VRAM or brute force with raw CPU power and RAM. If you care about power draw at all, you don’t want this on 24/7/365. Why not build a cool gaming rig and use it for AI? As a bonus, now you have a cool gaming rig with your AI machine!

I am just starting so take this not as a recommendation but as an option. I am familiar with Linux but do not work in IT.

I got myself a used desktop as a starting point. It can handle 2x 3.5” drives, one 2.5”, plus an NVMe. You could buy an adaptor and change the DVD drive for another 2.5” caddy, but more on that later. It came with 8GB of RAM, but it can handle 64. I spent something like $250 including cables, bolts, caddies, but not drives.

If you watched the video, you’ll notice the CPU has video transcoding acceleration and encryption acceleration too. It comes out ahead of modern N100 CPUs being widely used for home NAS these days, and draws a minuscule amount of power while idle. Indeed, most of the idle power draw for my machine comes from the drives.

So pros:

• can host a decent amount of services
• upgradable (PCIe slots and up to 4* spindles)
• the fourth needs you to convert the DVD to a caddy, but then you need to get an expansion card to add another SATA port, but will allow you to go RAID 10 or z2/6.
• small and mostly silent, low power draw
• 2x M.2 slots, one for NVMe and the other for an expansion card (like a Coral TPU or Wi-Fi)
• cheap

Cons:

• 3x onboard SATA ports, 3x drive bays means you’re rather stuck with RAID z1/5
• lower reliability from a used unit
• 1x 1 Gb Ethernet port onboard only

For software, I’m using TrueNAS scale. It’s easy to install and configure, there’s good documentation and a support forum, can run docker containers and VMs. Lots of administration quality of life tools built in that you don’t need to build. Plus it’s Linux and I can tinker with it if the need arises.

To get to what you want, you could install an M.2 A+E to SATA adaptor and a slim DVD to 2.5” caddy to come up to 4 drives, add memory, a multiport multigigabit NIC, an NVMe and 4 drives and you’d be set. VMs for your firewall, VPN, pihole, dockers for the rest.

The 2.5 unit I have runs cooler and consumes less power. It’s also more expensive.

Mozilla’s V3 implementation already extends out removing artificial limitations from it. Mozilla’s doing a reverse E3 and I’m all here for it.

Now if only the nincompoop IT dept on my company allowed me to run Firefox…

Maybe because it’s so edgy you can cut yourself reading it.

Also, any tools to import high resolution photos and metadata from Flickr into any of the servers listed? Namely title, description, tags, geotags? Even better if comments too, but I know I’m pushing my luck here.

Purely for my edification, why didn’t you join the class action? It’s not like you weren’t affected or even that they had any redeeming behavior.

They’re a great use for that otherwise useless “Wi-Fi slot” on a wired machine. Not too expensive either. So if you’re using your iGPU to transcode videos, it won’t interfere with your Frigate or Immich workload. And they’re supposed to be energy efficient too.

500GB HDDs? If you don’t need hot swap, with your budget, buy new ones. Transcoding is solved by using any modern-ish Intel CPU. I built one for $230 using a used office desktop and three 4TB HDDs plus a small used NVMe for TrueNAS.

Look at the 3 minute mark for transcoding accelerated CPUs: https://youtu.be/WCDmHljsinY