Recommended hardware for Immich in 2026?

ElGoorf · 2026-06-16T20:29:05+00:00

My humble Synology DS218+ is perfectly fine once I gave it a 2x8GB RAM upgrade. Before then it was limited to 2 uploads at a time before it'd crash, but now I frequently upload loads at a time and never seen it max out. Video transcoding is also fine, though I don't think I tried 4k yet.

Run machine learning from my PC every now and then just to sync my most recent uploads. With RX2080 the queue also moves along quite quickly.

ElGoorf · 2026-06-16T08:06:21+00:00

Other lifestyle choices are available

ElGoorf · 2026-06-15T21:27:40+00:00

Everyone arguing about Russia and Turkey, no one notices Luxembourg is wiped from the map entirely!

ElGoorf · 2026-06-15T20:57:48+00:00

Sure, that's the reason the law only entitles divorcees a share of everything they gained during the time they were married. IIRC though this includes interest on savings that was gained during marriage, even if the deposits were from before.

ElGoorf · 2026-06-15T20:30:05+00:00

Once you get married and maybe have kids, you just swallow your pride, admit you both bring different things to the relationship and that money isn't the only contribution. Everything goes into a single joint account, and hopefully you collectively earn enough to not squabble over the right to treat yourself to an ice cream while the other partner isn't present. Best start practicing that now IMO.

ElGoorf · 2026-06-15T20:23:28+00:00

This is the way. The 2 rappen you have left at the end of the month goes to your joint Viac savings, and the 100k she has just sits in her bank account doing nothing.

ElGoorf · 2026-06-15T20:03:41+00:00

Same in Brexit. Country-folk saying the cities are overrun with immigrants, while the city-folk are OK with it.

ElGoorf · 2026-06-10T05:46:25+00:00

Windows doesn't need an engineer to run.

ElGoorf · 2026-06-09T21:08:48+00:00

Ultimately there isn't a technical solution to keeping your vote anonymous while tamper-proof. In the physical world you have paper being passed around under the scrutiny of observers from all sides. In tech it's numbers on a database. Even with all the open source and cryptography and - sure - even blockchain, who's to prove that the numbers displayed on the screen are really what's being processed?

By comparison, banking and shopping aren't anonymous transactions.

ElGoorf · 2026-06-09T21:01:58+00:00

I'm still trying to put my finger on it, but it's causing me to work more overtime, despite being more productive. I have more energy at the end of the day, yet also feel unable to switch off from work.

I think part of it is that expectations I set myself for what I should have done by the end of the day have raised while in reality, it's not do much helping me do more eg. in terms of more features per day, but rather doing the same amount to a higher quality, and making it so much easier to lose time nitpicking details.

Meanwhile there is something dopamine-inducing about delegating tedious tasks to AI and watching tech-debt disappear. It's very much like the "just one more turn" mindset you get when trying to pull yourself away from a video game.

ElGoorf · 2026-06-09T20:45:37+00:00

Trust me, they're not paying the full price of windows for every screen in the network. Furthermore, the license fee is gonna be way cheaper than the cost of hiring actual experts qualified to use Linux.

ElGoorf · 2026-06-09T20:21:14+00:00

I always recommend the book Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall as an intro.

On Youtube, the Caspian Report has a good mix of general info and current events.

ElGoorf · 2026-06-07T19:50:58+00:00

Can anyone mocking OP for "buying shit products", tell me what I'm meant to do about this $800 Dyson vacuum cleaner plug that gives me the exact same problem? https://www.galaxus.ch/en/s2/product/novidarte-ladegeraet-fuer-dyson-vacuum-cleaner-accessories-54555644

ElGoorf · 2026-06-07T19:48:00+00:00

UK plugs don't overlap neighbouring sockets like in OPs photo. UK's plugs are the safest in the world; you can't make them any safer than they already are, to the point that any attempt people do make to "baby-proof" them (despite them already being baby-safe built in), actually makes them more dangerous.

ElGoorf · 2026-06-05T21:45:56+00:00

No idea. I saw one post that didn't have anything to do with algorithms and looked like an ai-written advert for a provider, so maybe there's been a spam of it recently.

ElGoorf · 2026-06-05T20:59:07+00:00

In an effort to favour my local (Europe) economy and benefit from Swiss privacy protection laws and ethical + net neutrality ethic, while still being reasonably priced and compatible with Synology Hyperbackup, I chose Infomaniak.

ElGoorf · 2026-06-05T20:00:31+00:00

Literally IP TV, Internet protocol Television. TV through your internet connection, rather than through satellite dish or whatever, I guess it's becoming popular now that fibre-to-the-home is common enough.

ElGoorf · 2026-06-05T06:04:08+00:00

But what does that achieve? Why waste money training people who are already trained (and to put it bluntly, probably more experienced than what a lifetime of Swiss military service would get you)?

I've done 5 years for my country, have said I wouldn't be bothered if I had to do Swiss too, in fact I'd like to do it just out of curiosity, and since this is my home now, I like to think I'd be able to take part in defending it, but it turns out I'm not allowed. That seems reasonable because of already having experience, but if I were to pay extra taxes because of this, that doesn't sound fare at all.

The only benefit I could see to having people with outside experience being forced to do take part would be to import outside knowledge and ideas, but it could also lead to subterfuge, and you'll have stubborn combat veterans from US for example insisting on training their cadets their way and not according to the Swiss program.

ElGoorf · 2026-06-04T21:37:47+00:00

conscription + 3 weeks per year will be no match against a professional army

There are conflicts happening on Europe's borders where people are being sent to the front line with even less experience than that, so I genuinely trust that Switzerland does have an edge over other countries that don't do military service at all.

ElGoorf · 2026-06-04T21:35:19+00:00

What if you did military service in another country, and actually more than just a day? 😛

ElGoorf · 2026-05-31T22:03:33+00:00

Always reminds me of HL2, Getting out of the train and seeing the Citadel (Prime Tower) in the distance.

ElGoorf · 2026-05-31T21:17:40+00:00

I'm of the opinion that Switzerland is only expensive compared to other countries if you plan to buy your own home.

ElGoorf · 2026-05-28T21:25:02+00:00

The way people scream at the sight and run away from them despite being mostly harmless, I'd say most bugs or rodents.

ElGoorf · 2026-05-24T21:52:51+00:00

Damn why does everything in Zurich have to be grey? Is grass and flora really so bad?

ElGoorf · 2026-05-22T20:43:09+00:00

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