You don’t have unlimited storage though.

Google will patch your exploit eventually and you could lose all your data.

Cool so you don’t have unlimited storage and might lose everything if Google decides to path the exploit you’re using.

How?

Google Photos isn’t free. You are the product.

Also it’s literally not free, it’s cheaper to host Immich than it is to pay for storage indefinitely

I think you can select all folders, I recommend taking the path I did. Run Immich in parallel with Google-Photos for a few months and see if you like it.

I did so an synced my camera roll from my phone (~6000 photos) and it works great. I also added some family members etc. and they also like it.

Now in the process of moving everything over.

It would be great if there was kind of cleanup plugin for Immich.

Like Tinder for pics you want to keep or dump. I could spend 10min every day in the train to swipe left or right on pics I want to keep or remove.

Been using Linux for. A year now, srill don’t know what it is

I started on Mint and then switched to Kubuntu But just work

I like KDE a lot

It’s their media PC, they literally just use to to watch YouTube and Series.

They’re fine with the switch it makes no difference to them and KDE is nicer

Yea I know that, but I only have one USB and eventually came to this place where it’s useful to just have them saved

I distro hopped them once on their media PC they just use to watch YouTube and series.

I don’t see myself changing it again, Kubuntu & KDE is so nice

For me KDE is so much nicer to use

Idk having 10 usb’s sound fun 😅 Chaotic Good.

Is it much easier than TrueNAS?

I went with TrueNAS because it’s open-source, and it’s been smooth sailing.

(I just use it as a NAS, nothing more)

I’d be curious to rewrite some of the malware we made in class and see if AVs would pick it up now.

Most of them didn’t make any network calls etc. they would just mess with your files and system Things like Set background to Justin-Bieber, play Justin-Bieber randomly, we were very mature

The best security is to limit your risk vector.

Like you said Anti-viruses aren’t some magic bullet, in university a bunch of us wrote Malware and wrecked each other’s lab computers or did things like having the whole Lab’s computers CD trays open at 10am every morning.

The AV didn’t pick up any of them and we barely knew what we were doing.

Afik, AV’s mostly scan for known threats

I’m more than happy to share. If others didn’t share I wouldn’t have been able to do my hobby.

So basically I just kinda copied this:
https://www.darkrym.com/posts/2025/05/my-rack-setup-2020-extrusion-diy-mini-rack/

The biggest difference is I used different corners, and I made mine a bit deeper (28cm total, so that it would fit a 30cm 3D printer bed)

Right now the back is literally empty, I’m planning on moving all the power cords there soon.

The HDDs are plugged into the ODROID H4+ (the thing that looks like a PSU)

Check my linked post and you’ll see what I’m talking about

Ooof that is rough!!

If you can make your own like I did I would highly recommend it.

If you have the Alu tubing cut and threaded for you most of the work is done

The thing that looks like a PSU is actually a ODROID H4+ it has 4 SATA and power connectors, so I just power it from that.

It’s all in excruciating detail here: https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h4-plus/

You can also have a look at my old post: https://piefed.social/post/1002037 that might give you a better idea.