First copy on offline USB disk on my server itself. Disk is turned on, backup done, disk goes off. Once a day.

Second copy on a USB drive connected to an OpenWRT router of my home, the furthest away from the server (in case of fire, I could be able to grab either of the two).

Third copy offsite on a VPS.

I use restic & backrest with great satisfaction.

I pay 6€/month for unlimited calls and texts, plus 200Gb of data / month, whatever my current phone support (LTE/4G/5G).

WTF

No they don’t, they just scan it and dont take the phone. But of course, they could.

No, se facessero cosi basterebbe che tu toccassi il bottone di blocco mentre glielo passi… A ripetere fino alla nausea.

No credo che la realtà sia differente: cosi ti invogliano ad avere l’app IO installata sul telefono… Semmai è quello il cavallo di troia.

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.

See https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=selfhost%3Anginx https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=selfhost%3Asso / https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services%3Aauthelia

These pages have been written for my own usage and use case, so YMWV…

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.

I don’t get you.

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…

Not sure it counts.

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.

Same kitchen.

Nothing wrong with that!

Just saying that not necessarily everything should be about money.

Also, knowledge and sharing has been critical for advancement of human civilization. Imagine if scientists where to sell their research instead of publishing it(*) where would be today?

• = I mean, you might have to pay to read those publications, but they are literally free and can ask the authors for a copy free in most cases…

Side hustles should be hobbies and done with no need to monetize them.

What the fuck, your job should be enough to support you and live, which includes free time to enjoy your life and hobbies.

But I understand, and more than once in my life I had to look for side hustles.

That’s really true. I was lucky enough to lose data, but be able to recover it. Very lucky.

And you find out you are not really backing up enough!

Nope!

Just wasted 3 days debugging an IP assigned to two devices… Not fun, don’t do it…

I think that proposing immich for every use case out there is not the correct answer.

As much as I like immich, this is not a good use case… iMHO.

All that? Well, I understand your point, but honestly I have more fun learning something new, and was really little work.

Anyway… Its an option too

No you don’t need two: in fact I have only unbound setup to do everything with one piece of software.

Better or worse? No idea, but it works and its one less piece that might fail.

I have a quite rich selfhosted stack, and DNS is indeed part of it.

For such a critical piece of infrastructure I didn’t needed a container, just installed Unbound and did some setup for ad blocking and internal DNS rules.

Here my setup: https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=router:dhcp-dns

You could go with an independent pihole maybe, but that would double the chances of a hardware failure…

Using one device for everything might seem risky, but actually has less chances of failure ;)