Taasz/Woof

That’s fair, shutdown service + backup everything is certainly more guaranteed to work properly.

With Immich I’m not too worried about the DB potentially being off since it can rescan the filesystem, but I also backup at 3am when nothing is happening on Immich because I’m asleep!

If you have someone far enough away, with fast/reliable internet, and a safe spot to put it.

Immich uses user/YYYY/MM folders on my setup, and I exclude any thumbnail directories from the backup too. So not many dirs/files to check for the backup software and it’s very quick.

You don’t need to shut it down, pg_dump works fine while it’s like if you want to make sure it’s a good database backup. The files side of things are fine either way.

I have a storage box with hostbrr for my ~800GB of files. They have deals sometimes with 4TB boxes for like $9 a month or so. Hetzner storage boxes are also sometimes on sale.

I meant for discord, if they can optimize it more with a toggle for ‘game mode’ why not just make it the default so the experience is better for everyone all the time.

I think it’s worth it, but you could move to one of the VPS deals on racknerd (or another lowendbox.com deal), for like $10-20 a year and save a bunch.

Why not just reduce resources all the time? Why does it need to be a bloated mess only when I’m not gaming if they can just turn a switch on to make it less bloated?

Sounds like an utterly terrible idea.

But in this case they are buying new Pis and modifying them, so their costs have to be higher than the official ones. It’s just weird to me that there is any market for that at all.

In concept nothing. But do you also recognize a legitimate business model of selling multiple products at different price points, spaced out more than the different cost of production?

Yes of course, but if the spacing is too much then stuff like this starts to happen.

is it your argument that they should be able to purchase the $20 product, add $10 of parts, and either use it or sell it as the $200 product?

Yes, once I buy something it’s mine to do with as I want. Obviously warranty may be void in some cases, but otherwise I own it.

If the market exists that is willing to buy it as a $200 product then Raspberry Pi should sell them for that price, their costs would be much lower than someone who buys a Pi at retail, buys new RAM chips, spends the time to desolder and solder on the new RAM chips, market their ‘product’, and deal with shipping it. If the knockoff is $200 and the same-spec legitimate Pi with warranty is $200, the knockoff won’t be around for long.

There’s a lot of good options, but for media you probably just want an x86 mini PC since they are way cheaper. Intel N100 based, or similar.

What’s the problem with a company doing what they want with hardware they purchased and own?

Nahh, their reasoning is BS IMO. It’s not an iPhone or something it’s a hobby product for tinkering with.

IMO they should have a set, compliant default for the radio and not allow users to change it.

I found it really difficult to use/understand and the mobile app is so slow.

Most people using Brave have no idea of those facts I’d bet.

I’ve got my own domain on Zoho mail, not sure if it’s still free for custom domains.

But just for fun I might set up Stalwart with an SMTP relay through SMTP2GO or similar.

I guess? They advertise it as blocking bots and bad actors and such but it doesn’t really do that.