Also, true there is more risk, but you should always balance it with advantages.
If your immich is properly protected behind a reverse proxy and encrypted with https, and containerized, preferably root-less container, and you properly back it up, go ahead and enjoy sharing.
Yeah, but if you put everything behind a well configured reverse proxy with proper SSL certs (let's encrypt) and maybe also a good SSO (not mandatory, but recomended) you will be fine.
All my photos are sorted into albums, i always browse them by album.
Don't care for "explorer like" but I need to see them as the albums they are part of, like all together in the same view, and be able to select which album/albums I want to look at
Yes, I would still do raid. Because a disk fail will not cause a blackout. Much better than have your server offline waiting to replace disk and restore backup.
And no way you can backup 18tb in 1tb, restic or no restic.
I mean, why on earth use a windows VM??? Use a very simple Linux one without any GUI just install sane+ScanservJS and you are in business. Zero overhead.
The scanner does not support scan to folder. Ok, so there is no other option than using another device to scan for you. Scanservjs fix that for you. Run it in a container of you don't want it on bare metal, its light and doesn't require resources unless you scan.
Sane is just Linux scanner engine, any Linux distro can install it easily.
I selfhost ScanservJS, uses sane under the hood and provides a nice web URL for scans. You can store the scans on a network or shared folder for paperless NGX.
I just wish something similar existed for printing as well...
For my 30th birthday my father opened a bottle of 1878 Porto his father bought.
So it was 130 years old.
It was... Unreliable. Full taste, very sweet, much more liquorous than regular Porto. We drank it quickly, what was left was fully undrinkable only a few hours later, totally spoiled. But for half an our after being opened, it was truly the most amazing Porto I ever had.
It has been bottled before cars existed... Before electricity became widespread...
Really a lifetime experience.
Now its gone, but I keep the bottle for future storytelling.
Pasta, i think it was 10 years past expiration date. Packet was sealed and stored in a dry, cool dark cupboard. Once opened, it felt normal. After cooking, you could not feel any difference. It was Barilla.
Also, cookies. Dry cookies, like crackers. Expiration date was past, how much i don't remember (years, anyway), but the cookies where just fine.
Its a common misunderstanding. Joplin files are .MD, and somewhere it says its markdown, because indeed Joplin uses markdown even inside the files.
But if you do open those files with any other markdown editor, you find out they are not plain markdown. The text itself is mixed up with other stuff (tags and such) in a non standard way. You notes are not lost and can be recovered, just not by straight open up in another markdown editor.
I use markor on android (open source) and syncthing to keep my readable MD files synched with my silverbullet self hosted, which is also nice for online editing at the same time.
Beware that Joplin MD files are not standard and cannot be easily read standalone.
I missed the business part... That make absolutely sense and gives out a different prospect. Here, you would be able to write off taxes all your home rig expenses I think.
Yes, factoring in all energy costs (including the public television tax which is part of your utility bills) energy cost me 60€c per kWh.
We use gas extensively, but for heating I use wood pellets with an idro-stove (heats the water that then circulate in the heaters).
In summer I can use ac for those nights that doesn't cool off, but during the day having 50cm thick stone walls never heats up enough inside. Winter are a different story, heating is on from 1 October to 1 of may, and here Home Assistant with per-room ZigBee thermostats and thermovalves is helping a lot to keep the pellet usage down to 2x15kg bags per day when its below freezing outside in daytime.
Until we upgraded from 3kWh to 6kWh (at nice 300€ price point) we frequently had the power disconnected because the oven was on while drying hairs... Or washer and toaster... What a fun ride.
3kWh is actually enough only for a condo, not for a house, but still it's how it works here.
All my hardware is refurbished from work, got it from surplus or things going to be dismissed. And way overpowered for the services I run (full arr stack, Usenet and torrents, WebDAV and filebrowser sharing, navidrome jellyfin actual budget homepage romm radicale and stuff I surely forgot).
I even have two ISPs for redundancy because living in the woods make it unreliable, so FWA (5G 300mbps but capped) and FTTC (20 shitty mbps but uncapoed) it is.
That's a lot of power. Consider where I live having 3kWh for domestic use is standard. I have 6kWh due to the PV, and its highly unusual.
Also, at my energy costs that would be ridiculously expensive, and way out of any justification, PV or not PV.
Even only sustain 3kWh just for self host would be madness. And the cost would be unsustainable as well.
The point that you "save" on the various subscription is moot, IMO, as those would never be subscribed in the first place at my house, so the "saving" is purely a luxury justification.
No, for domestic use only that is pure madness. I admire, and envy, you a lot... don't get me wrong, but that just prove you want / can splurge on fancy toys ad much as if you purchased a huge SUV just to go grocery shopping.
Also, true there is more risk, but you should always balance it with advantages.
If your immich is properly protected behind a reverse proxy and encrypted with https, and containerized, preferably root-less container, and you properly back it up, go ahead and enjoy sharing.