BartyDeCanter

Well, fuck. Immich has been a solidly good piece of software for me. Any recommendations that aren’t Nextcloud?

Ahh, I see. I missed that part and was thinking of a KVM that could be controlled via a remote or ssh. Cary on then.

Here’s the secret that KVM makers Don’t Want You To Know: Nowadays KVMs are almost always redundant if you have a monitor with multiple inputs. A simple USB KM switch plus a script that can call https://www.ddcutil.com/ will take care of almost all use cases.

Only 33% downtime? Damn, that must be nice. I really need to get a hardware update.

Don’t bother with excellent passwords, just never allow password auth on anything remote.

Or run your own headscale server, which is what I do.

Just set up a basic ssh connection, using key based authentication. You don’t need anything past that for a basic short term connection. I used one for years with port forwarding through my router to the ssh port on my desktop.

Now that I have a more complex setup with several services I use Tailscale and run my own Headscale server for it. But still, basic ssh will get you a long way and should be the first thing you do.

Either a NAS, or a direct storage box plugged into your server. QNAP and Terramaster make reputable ones. Then you can setup your own storage pool across whatever drives you have.

My first thought would be to try and fix it, then you have a nice laptop or get to be the family hero when you return it working to your brother.

Past that there are several services you might use that can take advantage of the video card: Immich image recognition, Paperless OCR, some of the local Whisper servers.

Or you have a nice set-top PC for big screen gaming and media playback.

It heavily depends on how close you are and their hover system and how much work has been spent to make them quiet. You probably heard about the Amazon ones, which are loud and hover low to the ground. There are other ones, such as the ones Zipline makes, which are quieter to begin with and hover very high, using a powered descend module on a cable. Those are basically silent from ground level.

Avoiding traffic and using an electric vehicle instead of a ICE one. In Bay Area traffic an electric drone can do a delivery in five minutes that would take a car thirty. And the Zipline style high hover + tethered descent drone is quieter than a car. I’m not sure if these are using that style or the low hover type like Amazon had been using, which are much louder.