It’s been quite a while since I played through SOTC, and maybe it’s the passage of time but I recall the frustration being a minor part of the play and ultimately balancing itself nicely with the thrill of actually taking down the Colossus.
With that said even when I was playing it maybe 10 years back (so long after release) a lot of the control and feel had not aged well so I get where you’re coming from.
Thanks for the heads up, I will check that out!
Photoprism, running on a Raspberry Pi 4. I’m just running it as a single user, and it’s been working well for that. A couple of notes:
I’ve got a very similar setup now. Only recently adopted tailscale and was previously port tunnelling over SSH to access anything on the local network. SSH is still open, and am just waiting a bit to see if theres any cases where I need it before closing that out too.
Short story: If you don’t need stuff open to the general public, just having Tailscale will probably cover you.
Same setup here. I’ve got a really basic script running nightly from cron. B2 is cheap as, and having an encrypted backup that’s versioned is great for piece of mind.
At one point I was away from home and my (little rpi) server wasn’t accessible, but with the restic repo up on B2 I was able to easily find a file I urgently needed remotely. It’s awesome.
Seconding Syncthing! You don’t need a rpi to get started, but it’s fantastic having it around as the always-on node you can use to sync multipe devices without them being online at the same time.
Came in to criticise the writing too. Got AI or at least bad translation vibes. Really hard to follow.