Most Americans don’t think about other countries enough to really grasp what you mean by rogue state

You can typically replace the battery inside the UPS (and should every few years). Looking at $40-50USD for “official” replacements, less for questionable third party ones.

Because as a headless server it’s likely to sit hidden for a long time. This and the always being plugged in is not good for lithium-ion batteries. If/when it starts ballooning will you notice? It’s a fire risk.

UPSes use typically lead-acid batteries like a car.

Heck yeah. Not always the best for power efficiency though.

Old laptops also a great choice but I really recommend removing the battery first.

I just have a script that checks my IP every few minutes and changes the DNS record as necessary

I’m not looking to become a sysadmin

And that’s fine and understandable. But I don’t think that Immich is for you. It’s not consumer-grade software. It’s a piece of Linux server software that requires occasional maintenance and administration. We haven’t seen a breaking update in a while but Immich does occasionally release updates where things will break if you don’t dig in to the config files and reconfigure it.

If you’re self hosting then you could just copy all the files from your server onto an external drive. I have to say that’s not a great backup solution though, and you should learn more about administration of Linux servers so that when things break you can fix them. I wouldn’t rely on it as a safe solution to your photos otherwise.

Are you paying for Immich somewhere? Then you’d have to trust the administrator to back your data up. I had assumed you were self hosting and by managed services I meant like Google Photos, or indeed someone else’s Immich setup.

You should have a backup solution for your server that should cover this, without that you should probably stick with managed photo backup services.

Well yeah you could go on the site and select whatever photos and hit download I suppose.

If anyone’s interested, here’s my Immich backup script. You setup rclone to use an S3 storage service like BackBlaze which is quite cheap. I also use a crypt which means RClone will encrypt and decrypt all files to/from the server. S3 configuration and crypt setup.

Then set this up as a cron job. With the “BACKUP_DIR” option when you delete a photo it will get moved to the “deleted” folder. You can go into your S3 provider’s lifecycle settings and have these get deleted after a number of days. I do 10 days. Or you can skip that and they’ll be gone forever.

#!/bin/bash
SRC_PATH="/path/to/immich/library"
DEST_REMOTE="b2crypt:immich-photos/backup"
BACKUP_DIR="b2crypt:immich-photos/deleted"
RCLONE_OPTIONS="--copy-links --update --delete-during --backup-dir=$BACKUP_DIR --suffix `TZ='America/New_York' date +%Y-%m-%d`.bak --verbose"
rclone sync $SRC_PATH $DEST_REMOTE $RCLONE_OPTIONS

US intervening in Ukraine to purposely push and provoke Russia

US: “why would Ukraine do this???”

To be fair he was also a dumbass in that regard and repeatedly refused to get actually treated in favor of holistic bullshit.

Iirc he’d have lived quite a lot longer if he had.

Seems like some of the bans are being undone? Testing the waters? Banning everything until a mod steps forward and says they were actively modding?

It seems like only straight porn allowed what the fuck they banned /r/gayporn

Like if they wanted to ban ALL NSFW subs that would be shitty but I can get why corpos don’t like that. But this seems designed to generate controversy.

Automotive too

Click MSDL not “Microsoft”

Yeah I’ve run into some issues with that page. This site has some direct links to MS servers maybe it’ll work for you.

https://massgrave.dev/genuine-installation-media

Download the ISO directly from MS.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10iso

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11

Activate using: https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

Their instance and HexBear do not federate.