Thanks. No need for the setup notes (but thanks for the kind offer), it was more about the experience, but I think you’ve already answered my question with less surface area (I do have 1 Pi that’s internet facing for Radicale)

Have you looked at Ansible? That might also cover what you’re trying to do.

I went with Arch Linux on ARM for a minimal approach - did you try that?

Genuninely interested in your experience of Alpine Linux as I’d not considered it on a Pi (only VMs so far…)

If you’re just looking for something to chew up CPU cycles and don’t know what to host, consider something like BOINC where you’re “self-hosting” (extremely loose term) scientific research, like cancer, new drugs, etc.

If they’re sharing it with me, then sure, I’ll add it to the folder for that party, holiday, event

Immich would scan it and faces are taken care of and if there’s metadata in there, great, if not, dunno if I could be bothered to edit it… maybe date stamp if that was wildly off.

I commented elsewhere here, but E2E encryption is just between the server and the end user (ie a VPN)

You’re thinking about encryption at rest, on the storage.

Immich would have to setup a whole new design to be able to store all the metadata on a per-user basis… but… you could have multiple Immich instances if you were to host it for your friends, but I think we’re drifting into “why bother” now…

Well… E2E is still feasible, that’s your VPN for example.

Encryption at rest is where de-dupe, search, etc, can break.

The scalability problem with FOSS is monetary and motivation.

The successful products need longterm financial security in order to plan and support their peoduct(s) - so, do we start seeing more subscriptions as corp. sponsorship fades away?

And, just like XKCD 2347, FOSS needs to step up and support the components they rely on

That’s going to need some more maturity from the developers too: it’s a great feeling doing something new and interesting, but - like having a pet - you can’t just abandon something when you’re bored of it, or too busy, without rehoming your project(s)…

That’s where I see the industry needs to improve before they’re really ready for the big time.

I guess this is mainly targeted at Universities and organisations that mirror repos?

They’re the kinda place (I presume) that would be able to support this…

If you’re able to, use GeoIP ranges to only allow access from the countries you want.

That immediately limits a lot of everything

Then - again if you’re able to - use a block list that covers known scrapers in case they’re in your country.

I use pfBlockerNG on my pfSense firewall for exactly this.

I think they meant they’re not a fan of Windows and having to update those programs individually…

Ah, Ok, yeah Arch on ARM is struggling at the moment

I have / had some Ras Pis on it, but they wrapped up … Pi0? a while back, so had to look at Raspbian (or whatever it’s called now)… I’d not considered Gentoo for them… hmmm

Maybe I’ll check that out

Thanks

Interested in why you went back to Gentoo after Arch.

I use Arch (btw) and tried Gentoo back in the day, but it’s always in the back of my mind that compiling source could be “better”…?

Take a backup and go for it.

Personally, I ditched OMV for standard Arch Linux and just added the packages I wanted…

This

x10

Mint is the best apparently

https://distrowatch.com/

I use Arch btw

This was great… great find and genius idea.

I think you’ve read me wrong there.

First up, I presume you searched for other posts like this one? If not, a pinned post might’ve made that easier for you to get started (ie Mint)

Second, the pinned post doesn’t become a final answer, it’s a starting point to add to the discussion, (ie you tried Mint, but didn’t like X, Y & Z)

From my pov there are a lot of posts asking this same question and this was simply a reflection on how we could improve the community… and your experience.

~1600 hours uptime… no rebooting after patching?

You… you do patch your web server… don’t you…?

But, a good blog… must give my BIOSes a good looking at and see if I can change some of mine

LoL… looks like a EULA in Uppercase

Much prefer that you do your stuff the way you want, and lowercase makes it feel like it’s hand written

Man, we need to be able to pin some posts and answer these quesrions once.

I’m not saying there’s a single answer (I use Arch btw), but if we could just group all these Q&As in 1 post…