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  • Where are you buying OptiPlex’s for 50? Get one for 30.

    I would say look into i3 (more power efficient) and get some cheap budget SSDs or dirt cheap HDD (it will be plenty fast).

    Because win11 requires TPMs there businesses had to replace office drone email terminals, so there are plates of those getting scrapped. Maybe less, so most probably have been turned to shredded metals.



  • Here are her choices:

    Improved workflow + time investment in cleanup OR BURN BABY BURN THAT MONEY!!!

    Jokes aside. She needs to start splitting photos she is actively working on and the ones that are effectively archived. I am sure there are ways to make the it still available either making a lower rez copy that lets her browse them in Imitch or some other tool that she would find more palatable… but there is going to be trial and error phase… not fun.

    As for the money burning bit start… just buy bigger SSD… you can put them in DAS (direct attached storage) which is similar to NAS but is available only that one machine has deeper integration inside of system so may overcome the bugs lightroom is throwing at her.





  • My age.

    I remember about a decade ago when wiping your phone daily to install the new ROM was not that much big deal. I think a lot of stuff was unstable more unstable than it is now but we relied less on it. Now. I can not imagine loosing some data or some things that are important to me.

    Also regulation. I worked in ecosystem that if it was a cloud service you would have to sooo much extra time on paperwork for only a chance of not getting denied. There was also some other legislation out right eliminated a number of services. Local became only real option.


  • I have a setup where Wireguard docker container that is connected to my local network and if I use any other container to get local access I use `network_mode: service:wireguard-container` for that remote container have the same access as my VPN container.

    This has pros and cons. Major pro that the host machine has no access to my network, so it works as regular server. Cons are that if I want to expose say a web panel for one of my local services I have to apply proxy settings to the VPN container and if you use a multiple copies of the same container that does not allow to change default port… you get collisions.




  • Cost. But I do not agree with ‘Whi would i pay for a service when i could host it myself for free?’

    It is not ‘free’ it is cheaper. Today I got a quote from utilities company saying that api access to how much heat I use is 20 EUR/month a software defined radio recover is 20-40 USD + shipping. To do a full setup and research it takes about half of day some exiting HW and electricity but even summing all of that up. It is cheaper and utils company has already lied to me at least twice this year, so… their stacking motivation for me to independetly monitor the metering.





  • Frigate gives you a lot of fine tune control on the detection, so with aggressive filtering you could have very limited object detection (for cases when somebody very close to it i.e. trying to peal of the camera).

    I would also suggest enabling audio detection if you cameras have mics in them. Audio detection needs a negligible amounts of processing. Fire alarm audio detection should be on by default. You can add things like breaking glass as extra triggers.

    Not enabling detection should work for you but to retain video records you would have to setup config globally or for individual cams:

        record:
      enabled: true
      retain:
        days: 10
        mode: all
    

    I would run both or if your cameras can not handle doubling streams just setup a demo in parallels on one of the cams, so you can test it.

    I also find https://github.com/bairhys/prometheus-frigate-exporter very useful for longer term performance tuning.