After giving it more thought I guess the only real issue is that Lemmy doesn’t tell you that votes are public.

It can lead to wrong expectations of privacy. Anyways I’ll nuke this account and make a different one.

This be the true selfhosting !

Being tethered to USB even if you want to copy or view 1 photo will get incredibly annoying.

Immich will also give you lots of useful features like albums, tags, filtering, face detection (local), and supports multiple devices and users (do you have enough USB ports? :p) . These small features will turn more and more useful as your library grows.

You can first keep Immich working in your local network while you figure out tailscale, flexibility is a strong suit here.

What kind of crap server is that? How on earth do I connect to it or set up a connection so I can access it from anywhere?

The nature of self hosting is that you’re doing the things yourself. With a service like Google photos you don’t even think about this stuff because someone else manages and figured the things out already for you.

This is good, lets you see if you are up for it when things don’t work out of the box exactly like you wanted. If it’s too much then I suggest you use a managed service.

Otherwise, then I suggest you begin with checking out tailscale. Tailscale is not exactly a selfhosted service but it’s the easiest path for remote access I can think of.

But as the other reply said, do you really need remote access? I mean, you can simply do the backups when you are connected to your home network…

It doesn’t get as easier as this (for photo storage backup):

docs.immich.app/overview/quick-start/

It has step by step guide, using very simple commands you can just copy and paste for the most part.

Since you are using linux, and you are in the fediverse I do assume you can move your way around setting up Immich with that guide.

I use a very similar setup, and with a custom UI mpv looks even better. Even on mobile I use an app with libmpv backend which plays my NAS media and anything I throw at it. Also, the ability to smoothly scrub video, especially on touchscreens is a very rare treasure among video players but mpv handles it with no struggle…

I guess jellyfin is for those who want a netflix experience with movie posters, descriptions, and lots of QoL

I tried linux mint in a live USB since everyone here always says “it works perfectly!”

First of all iTunes doesn’t work even with Wine (can’t detect devices plugged in, which is the main feature I need for sync and sideloading). Then steelseries driver is non-existent so I can’t setup my mouse and keyboard the same way…

I then installed OpenRGB, thinking that would manage all the RGB (even for mouse and keyboard), but I spent 2 hours trying to make the RAM follow the color scheme, which it never did. Also the thing fucked up each time the PC woke from sleep.

At that point I cleaned out the USB, and regret wasting around 4 hours following the advice of internet circlejerks.

The worst thing is that the linux circlejerk leaks even to communities focused on other platforms, like apple, nintendo, microsoft, google. Effectively these communities are permanently brigaded.

I was just starting to use it, damn. I wonder if google has tried to take them down for using their search results…

I was thinking of setting up my own searxng instance, but I know they do have problems with google results now.