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I wouldn’t say it’s “hard”, but taking responsibility for all the photos your wife took of your darling children growing up is… a thing.
As long as you don’t directly connect it to the internet, it’s not hard.
When you do, it does become hard.
I thought so too for a long time. Had to figure it out for actual budget though. Tailscale makes that aspect pretty simple. Still probably too complex for your average user, but if you’re setting up self hosted apps you should be able to figure it out.
The “average user” shouldn’t selfhost anything. Might sound mean or like gatekeeping, but it’s the truth. It can be dangerous. There’s a reason why I hire an electrician to do my house installation even tho I theoretically know how to do it myself - because I’m not amazingly well versed in it and might burn down my house, or worse, burn down other peoples houses.
People who are serious about selfhosting need to learn how to do it. Halfassing it will only lead to it getting breached, integrated into a botnet and being a burden on the rest of humanity.
Because it is for those who aren’t sysadmins or at least amateur Linux enthusiasts. The easiest tools quickly become very hard when something breaks and you got no one who could fix things for you you don’t know anything about.
Who are they? Hard for who?
I propose a new title… “This thing I know a lot about is easy!”
Immich is amazing until you update and your wife is complaining she can’t see her photos.
The most reliable piece of hardware and software I have is my Synology.
Don’t update anything without a way to restore.
Now that it’s in stable release, is it really still the case?
Honestly, the time i had to manually intervene since ~2 years is less then 5-10 times, and that is way before the stable release. So I doubt that.
I only set up auto-update since the stable release, but I don’t think I’ve ever had an issue since I set it up 2 years ago. Every time I read the release notes they said “go for it”, and… it worked. I guess trauma holds much longer for those who were there early ;)
You know, I have been using Immich since forever. The last issue was probably a year ago.
Dick. I’ve spent two days tearing my hair out trying to get restic to connect to hetzner. Hate it when folk spend a couple of hours tinkering with Plex and they’re all like ‘yeah this is a breeze you’re clearly a moron’.
Who are they? Hard for who?
I propose a new title… “This thing I know a lot about is easy!”
yes quite - self hosting is tricky and dangerous
i think there is space for a distro or box you can plug into your router that makes it safe and easy
maybe that’s what unraid and trunas are getting towards?
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Now try that rootless.
I don’t. Synology stores all the files and it comes with Synology photos, but it’s clunky if you don’t have an Intel chip that has an onboard GPU.
I have a 10 GbE connection to my proxmox running the immich with only read access.
