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•Created by digital star system 💾🌟 on 12/30/2024 in #help-desk-support
What's the best practice for handling iOS/iCloud Photos? (Questions about external libraries)
TL;DR at bottom.
Hi, all. I decided to finally bite the bullet and move to Immich, since I'll be switching to daily-driving Android soon and wanted something cross-platform. I figured now was a good time to start self-hosting Immich.
However, I'm trying to figure out the best way to handle my pre-existing iCloud storage, with about 10,000 photos/videos (totalling about 100GB). Despite switching to Android, I still use iOS/iPadOS quite a bit, and would like to be able to continue syncing my iCloud photos, even after the switch.
The reason I'm conflicted is because I still need to clean and curate my collection; I have all sorts of screenshots and random downloads going back to 2016/2017 or so. I want to import everything into Immich, and then clean it all up so I finally have an organized photos album. I'm trying to decide if I should just point at icloudpd as an external library and manage that, or if I should import everything I have now directly to Immich, and then just use the iOS Immich app going forward.
Perceived pros/cons for icloudpd:
+ More reliable, doesn't depend on iOS's bad background management.
+ Faster.
+ Can delete photos in iCloud storage without deleting them from Immich (or local storage).
- Entire library isn't stored in the same place.
- Images deleted from Immich aren't deleted from the icloudpd folder, due to being an external library.
- Images deleted from icloudpd's folder are re-downloaded at next sync, unless they're removed from iCloud first.
Perceived pros/cons for using the Immich app:
+ Images are stored and managed in Immich storage directly, thus easier to back up.
+ Deleted images are actually deleted, and don't take up space.
- Slow, and unreliable on iOS.
- Essentially manual, do to background app refresh being useless.
TL;DR Trying to figure out how to keep my iCloud synced going forward. Despite being the most reliable option, my concern about using icloudpd is that it makes things very difficult to re-setup if I need to. If I delete a file in an external library, what happens if I need to reinstall Immich? Will those photos be re-imported, or will it remember that I deleted them? Why don't these photos count towards Immich's storage usage? I worry about these things. If I reimport that external library by doing something like changing it's path, or I move my install to a different server/computer, or I need to restore from a backup, will all of the things that I deleted from the external library show up again, and I'll have to do all of that work to clean them out again?
-# (Using Unraid and the AIO image, as well as the latest iOS app, but I think this is more of a general question than a technical one.)
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•Created by digital star system 💾🌟 on 9/17/2023 in #🛟bazzite-help
System won't enter Gaming Mode, and has broken HDMI Audio
Trying to use Bazzite (Deck) as software for an Intel NUC to use as an HTPC. So far, I've had a few issues.
One of the issues is HDMI audio. It's very crackly and crushed. On normal distros, this was very easily fixed by removing
speech-dispatcher, but I don't know how to remove speech-dispatcher on this specific OS configuration.
The other two issues seem to be somewhat connected. When I boot the system, or enter Gaming Mode via desktop shortcut, or log out of the user, it just kicks me right back to the Plasma desktop. It never boots into Gaming Mode, it never does anything other than spit me back out, inevitably, at Plasma's desktop. Steam also doesn't save login information at this point, so after every reboot, attempt to go into Gaming Mode, or otherwise, I have to re-log back into Steam. Every time.
CPU/GPU are Intel Core i3-7100U and Intel HD 620 graphics. I was fairly sure these were supported, so any help would be appreciated.10 replies