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Building Out The HomeLab: Photos with Immich

·11 mins
In my post last month about rethinking my personal tech stack, I had mentioned that I had been using Ente Photos as an alternative to Google Photos, but had also been evaluating Immich. I also mentioned that one day in the future I might move over to Immich after figuring out a better backup strategy for my HomeLab.

Building Out The HomeLab: Proxmox and Tailscale

·9 mins
Several years ago, I bought a Synology DS920+ to use as a network attached storage (NAS) appliance in the house. I don’t work as a photographer or video editor so my work doesn’t really have any massive storage needs; rather, I wanted someplace to host media for the family that didn’t require an ongoing subscription service to access. For a few years, it served that purpose almost exclusively, both as a drive I could mount and as a Plex server.