Interesting, are you accessing files directly on the NAS or something like that where the symlink makes sense?

I mount extra storage under /mnt/ and store stuff like media in there.

Looks pretty neat for tinkering

Without the utility how would I connect to a grid to sell to others? Who would pay for that and manage it?

They still use far less, bitcoin manages like 10 transactions per second and consumes a staggering amount of power. A normal database running on something using a few watts could handle 10 database updates per second.

At that point the devices could just report without the use of cryptocurrency and we could use normal money, it would also have less power usage because no mining is happening.

I just can’t really visualize the advantage of cryptocurrency here, it increases power usage, cost, and complexity.

I use Frigate, works well with RTSP cameras such as Amcrest.

If you have a 6th gen or newer Intel CPU you don’t need a Coral, you can use OpenVINO instead and it works just as well.

If you have a 6th gen or newer Intel CPU you don’t need a Coral, you can use OpenVINO instead and it works just as well.

Consumer SSDs generally only have a 200-600TBW rating, not petabytes. Its pretty easy to wear one out in a few years installed in a server.

Do you need them imported into browser? There’s not much downside to having them just in a bookmarks app independent of the browser, and the upside is you can freely switch browsers.

The general rule is the 3-2-1 rule, so 3 copies of your data, 2 different storage types, and 1 of them offsite.

Make sure you run backups at least daily too for your data, and keep a month or so worth of incremental snapshots.

Restic + Backblaze B2 is great for an offsite backup.

KVM also allows access if the machine isn’t booted up, so like mounting remote recovery images, re-installing an OS, and changing BIOS settings and that kind of thing.

The i7-6700 has an Intel iGPU that will handle heavy transcoding just fine using Quicksync.

It will even do really fast object detection with OpenVINO, with minimal CPU usage. At least in Frigate both of those things work extremely well.

Does Immich auto update

Only if you auto-update the docker images on your server.

There have been a few breaking chances, but it just takes a minute to tweak the compose file and it’s up and running again.