They seem to have good builtin support. Let immich make a db backup and then add the db backup directory to your normal backup.
(And the filesystem directory with photos of course) https://docs.immich.app/administration/backup-and-restore/

What I meant with lifestyle was the fact that vegan used to mean not using any products that cause animal suffering, be it a hamburger, leather shoes or makeup tested on animals. None of it is vegan.

While I don’t believe IaaS to be selfhosting I do believe self-managed services on IaaS should be allowed here. It’s the same software stack and requires the same skills so both parties gain from having the discussion in the same place.
Not because I think selfhosting is a badge but because I think it makes sense to call things for what they are.

But I’m an old grumpy who thinks ovo-lakto vegetarians shouldn’t have been allowed to steal the meaning of vegetarian or vegetarians steal it from vegans (and now we no longer got a word to describe old school vegans that makes it a lifestyle not a diet.)

Ah, I take it this is the tactic you use?

Go to https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/ rather than https://addons.mozilla.org/android/ when you find the extension you want to try use the menu button (hamburger/three stripe icon) and toggle “Desktop site” then you can use the “Add to Firefox” button.

Otherwise, if you followed an extension link, you may have to switch to “Desktop site”, then remove /android from the URL in address bar.

It should then install the add-on, but if it tries to download the file instead, then change privacy.resistFingerprinting.block_mozAddonManager back to the default false in about:config.

Yeah, the main tip was that you can use whatever you use to grab streams from youtube on firefox on your computer and add that addon to a collection to get it on your phone.

Creating an addon collection as per this guide allows me to install computer addons to my Android phone:
https://www.androidpolice.com/install-add-on-extension-mozilla-firefox-android/

The addon I use to grab streams didn’t want to work on youtube though, but it worked to grab video streams from other sites.

I blame it on rarely upvoting posts at all! Or maybe it was someone elses fault, must be someone else to blame. I think. Is it your fault? You made me not do it? You must’ve made me not do it. You’re to blame. I’m certain.

Yeah, if you wanna lurk and not comment because you want to stay private then I recommend not voting at all.
If a person is already engaging in communities with comments like you and I are right now then I think the added details from our upvotes only strengthen what they already know from our comments.

I think most of my upvotes are in comment chains like this, when I think that they add value and are on topic.

I feel like this is what upvotes and down votes are for though. Expressing that you agree, like, or don’t like what someone is doing, or saying is not a mental disorder. I have been on the internet long enough, to know that starting a discussion about something, is almost never really worth it. I do feel that I should be able to join in on a general sentiment of approve or disapprove on a platform like this.

This is something where everyone has their own personal idea of what the votes are for. I was taught to think of the votes as relevant (on topic)/irrelevant (off topic) when I first encountered the system.

And that assumption is why I think the choice of the devs to hide it was wrong. They essentially tricked you.

Having votes transparent makes manipulation much harder and people much nicer.

4/999 negative votes (0.4%) or 99.6% positive
You’re one happy dude!
https://lemvotes.org/user/[email protected]

I mostly solve this by upvoting what I like and ignoring the downvote option, reserving it for advertisement bots and spam.
I think that having the voting record hidden in the client UI makes more harm than good to be honest and would’ve preferred if the devs changed their mind on tricking end users that voting is anonymous.

The federated design of fediverse means that upvotes and downvotes must sync between instances and as such they’re not hidden or anonymous in any real sense. Anyone with a fediverse instance can see the votes.

lemvotes.org democratise this by allowing everyone, not just techies with their own instance, to see the votes.

One should know that lemvotes.org isn’t a perfect source of truth though, when I lefthand scroll I sometimes fat finger a downvote that I remove again. The latest downvote in my record is one of those.

https://lemvotes.org/ state I downvoted a post:

https://feddit.uk/ sees 75 upvotes:

https://sopuli.xyz/ sees 75 upvotes and I clearly have not voted:

You can do that with tampermonkey and some javascript.

While splitting Compute and Storage is nice I think the main takeaway should be having your opnsense/router on it’s own physical hardware.
Having your storage separated won’t stop a Jellyfin interruption if you reboot your compute.

For a NAS solution the cheap way would be a used desktop with at least 4 SATA ports, a Linux distro you’re used to and Cockpit installed.

I find it harder to believe someone can rate any of these monsters as sexually attractive:

But with those it would be very easy to let then rate a whole bunch of monsters where only one of the variables differ - such as penis size.

For those that are interested here’s a featuretable comparison between Thunderbird and Betterbird
https://www.betterbird.eu/#featuretable

I use the same combo.
I find FairEmail + Fossify Calendar/Contacts + DAVx5 works great on my android.

Oh, I just looked at it. Seems like the perfect solution. I enjoy that you can easily lock and unlock the vault while the machine is up and logged in to ensure no one can gain access due to the computer being left on but unattended. Much smoother than the old encrypted 7-zip that I used as a teenager.

As you’re using KDE and NixOS I imagine you got Dolphin as your file manager.
edit: While the below is great for an encrypted backup of your images that you can move to a thumbdrive or another computer I recommend you look at the Vaults mentioned by @[email protected] for encryption directly on the machine.

Step 1: - Create an encrypted and password protected 7-zip

Step 2: - Settings for the 7-zip

Step 3: - Opening up the encrypted 7-zip file by double clicking and entering the password from Step 2

Step 4: Place the picture folder and the 7-zip next to each other

Removal of pictures from the 7-zip is as simple as rightclicking on them:

Adding pictures to the folder can be done as a simple drag and drop:

While this allows you to see the thumbnails of your unencrypted images before drag and dropping them to the 7-zip you will not be able to see thumbnails when they’ve been encrypted (Compare left and right view in drag and drop image).
You can double click images in the encrypted archive to open them up though.

Section 9 - The Engineering Mindset was an interesting part of the article.

edit: Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 2009
This is an ooold paper

The proportion of engineers who declare themselves to be on the right of the political spectrum is greater than in any other disciplinary group: 57.6 % of them are either conservative or strongly conservative, as compared to 51.1 % of economists, 42.5 % of doctors and 33.5 % of scientists, 21.4 % of those in the humanities, and 18.6 % of the social scientists, the least right-wing of all disciplinary groups.
[…]
The Carnegie survey reveals an even more surprising fact, hitherto unnoticed, that strengthens the suspicion that the engineers’ mindset may play a part in their proneness not only to radicalise to the right of the political spectrum, but do so with a religious slant: engineers turn out to be by far the most religious group of all academics – 66.5 %, followed again by 61.7 % in economics, 49.9 % in sciences, 48.8 % of social scientists, 46.3 % of doctors and 44.1 % of lawyers.
[…]
One could question whether this mindset is unique to academic engineers. The answer is likely to be negative: similar results are found on the political and religious opinions of students, both for “un-socialised” beginners in the first four semesters and more advanced ones.
[…]
Still, one could further object, the phenomenon could be uniquely American. Some old evidence suggests that at least the right-wing bias occurs in the Middle East: a 1948 survey of 3,890 Cairo University students recorded the highest sympathies for fascist ideology among engineering students (Botman Reference Botman1984, p. 70). A survey of Canadian professors also found that engineers are the least liberal of all (Nakhaie and Brym Reference Nakhaie and Brym1999).

Unfortunately, non-US data that would allow us to combine political and religious attitudes are of much lesser quality.
[…]
The results from 2,816 cases in 16 mostly Western countries show that engineers were not more religious than other graduates and only insignificantly to the right of them. However, the combination of the two characteristics occurred far more often among engineers than the null hypothesis of non-correlation would predict – the only professional category in which this happened. Whereas based on individual scores on religiousness and right-wing attitudes we expected 9.4 % of engineers to share both attributes, 13.9 %, actually did (significant at 0.05).