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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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    • before you switch, sort out your apps. Look at what you use on windows, see if it runs on Linux. If not, find a replacement that does and test it out.
    • Most Linux distros can boot into a desktop from a thumb drive. You can play and test without touching your windows installation.
    • in that vein, ventoy is neat. You can make a bootable drive and drop ISOs in a folder to boot from. No messing with etcher or whatever it’s called
    • desktop environment matters as much as the distro. Check out gnome, KDE, and cinnamon.





  • I have 113k images going back two decades. The screenshot above doesn’t include RAW files, with those included I’m around 2 terabytes of total storage.

    • Immich is in fact a photo album, and a damn good one at that.
    • Immich keeps google’s grubby paws off my photos. I don’t need or want anyone datamining every precious memory I have in order to modify my behavior to their benefit.
    • Immich shares photos between my wife and my phones.
    • Immich ensures that if I lose my phone, my photos aren’t lost.
    • Immich lets me easily re edit and re-export RAW files without creating duplicates or losing metadata
    • Immich lets me conveniently share photos with friends and family without requiring them to have an account anywhere.

    Mostly I self-host things when I want data synchronized between multiple devices, or I don’t want to lose it in the event I lose the device it was created on.

    Also, like, phone screens are tiny and typing on them is terrible? Why would you want to do everything on your phone?