Just looked and yeah, not far off when you buy new. An old PC with a couple of hard drives can do the trick, but obviously it’s more work to set up.

The used and refurb market is your friend.

For large capacity refurb enterprise-grade drives, I recommend serverpartdeals

I’ve had some good 16TB drives from there for a good few years and still kicking. They can be a little loud though. You can get 10TB drives for maybe €250.

A Synology 4-bay NAS can be bought second hand from eBay for about €200-€300. They aren’t very powerful but might be fine for Immich and pretty easy to use. Many come with some hard drives you can pawn off or get started with using a RAID config that means if one or two die you are fine. If the drives are second hand (not pro refurb) though do not pay more than 30% of retail price because who knows how long they will last.

Photos don’t take up that much space. Even 100 000 photos tends to take up less than 500GB. Video is much heavier, so if you’re a videographer you may struggle without reencoding.

Reminder that Immich has basically all the features of Google Photos and more, and you can migrate fairly easily by doing a Google Takeout.

https://www.bigiron.cc/guides/migrating-google-photos-to-immich-via-takeout

ICE Candidate

They can just tell you really hate brown people and love licking boots by your vibe.

In my company some of the top users spend over $3000/m. $29 is maybe 30 mins - 1 hour continuous running for a *medium" sized model like Sonnet. Not sure about cheaper models.

I’ve heard a lot of cheap Chinese devices have telemetry or malware on them. I’m almost surprised this does not.

Chinese stuff also tends to not rely on Google Services, does it have casting support? Maybe that’s on an app-to-app basis anyway.

Thanks, I’ll have a look.

What software / OS would I run on this device to get a seamless fullscreen experience (like consoles / sticks / SteamOS)?

I have a server and all, but I’d need the right software to make the casting work and perhaps get a nice GUI + remote if I want to use actual apps.

I prefer to not rely on screen mirroring as it means I can’t check my phone without interrupting what I’m watching. Especially a problem when watching with someone else.

I don’t have any other Apple devices, and I really want to be able to cast from my apps to the device, so I can keep watching something I have started seamlessly.

Is that possible on the Apple TV?

Thanks for the reply.

Not exactly a windfall

Late last month, plaintiff Alek Schott of Houston was awarded $76, one dollar for each minute that he was detained. (Schott asked for this exact amount as symbolic compensation.)

“Money was never what mattered,” his lawyers said. “This was and has always been about the Constitution. IJ will now ask the court to enjoin Bexar County from using baseless traffic stops as a tool for warrantless searches, and will work to enforce the precedent across the state.”

Ah, fair.

Worth a read. The nonsense he went through is bizarre.

I got some 16TB drives recently for around $200 each, though they were manufacturer recertified. Usually a recertified drive will save you 20-40%. Shipping can be a fortune though.

EDIT: I used manufacturer recertified, not refurbished drives.