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I came from Nextcloud to syncthing, you're in the right place.

To answer your first bit:

I went owncloud --> nextcloud --> syncthing + radicale.

Not looked back.

I run everything through a proxy in my home-built pfsense box.

You're doing fine.

After seeing someone at work burnout, I'll offer this advice:

Find what you enjoy doing and do nothing more (today). Itch only 1 scratch at a time.

As an analogy - consider you've moved into a newly built house and have an empty garden. No-one would expect you to create that perfectly first time around. Esp. in 1 weekend. It needs time to grow. Some things will need cutting down, some things will need moving. Animals will crap on it.

I think you're trying to make it perfect, first time around. Perhaps as a fear of doing it "wrong".

There is no wrong, it's all a learning experience, doing things good enough for now and improving / breaking things later.

Ensure you know how to backup your files (3-2-1 rule) and the rest doesn't matter.

I've re-written my ansible scripts a few times, but over months and years as I've learned what works best for my system.

For example, I had 1 complete script for each device. I can wipe the device (get it back on the network) and rebuild with no effort...

... then I realised that most of the scripts had very similar parts to tweak SSH and other settings, so then I learned how to call scripts from within scripts, which also meant using variables (facts) to work out if this is a 32b or 64b RasPi (for example)

That probably took 3 months

But I enjoy sitting in my garden and looking at it...

Longterm MythTv user here, watching the discussions

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I want to search for a blog on this now...

Not arguing with you, it's just a choice.

The question was whether Immich had to be executed from within a container system... and it doesn't have to.

I guess that's true.

I'm running it outside of a container and outside a VM... as there's no abstraction layer on top of the underlying OS. Which I guess is inside the bare metal.

So, Yep.

I'm running it bare metal on my NAS.

No problems, plus I don't have to do extra container stuff.

I've not seen that option, but I use syncthing instead of the phone application to sync my photos to a specific folder on my NAS which is then an external library for Immich.

TBH, I don't want anything deleting anything automatically.

I'll often delete newer pictures of temporary stuff but keep older pictures of my frinds & family, so, that's not a feature I'd see any value in. It tends to just make me lazy and build up GBs of junk photos on my NAS (and backups...)

I think you're looking for a calendar on a web page?

So, probably not what you meant, but Radicale is a really good caldav server I use for our calendars

It's a server, you need clients (ie phones, etc) to see the calendars, but I found that no-one wanted a web calendar, they just used their phones... so maybe it's an option...?

1st, definitely get backups offsite. Either cloud or drives at someone else's home, but do that.

When (not if) something breaks you'll need to fix it "now"

So, if you were intending on hosting a failover system in the cloud with Jellyfin, Adguard, Wireguard, etc. that won't be a simple replica - you'll need to redo your whole networking design.

IMHO, you're better having physical spare parts / devices at home and focus on that.

If you're running on an old PC, you'll probably be better getting a newer, more efficient (lower electricity costs) - possibly smaller and quieter - device and moving stuff across... your old PC can then be the backup device.

By which country?