my solution is not never have anything important on my computer, i have a dedicated gaming pc just for my flight simulator. And please just empty that damn mailbox, it is not a storage system for documents and it increase surface of attack if compromised. For the rest just air gap many backups of your most important data.

E.g. keeping your taxes report unencrypted at rest on disk is a dumb idea too or worst a copy of your ID documents.

Just also stop saving critical stuff on your phone you’ll never use nor open again. A good mailbox is an empty mailbox, empty signal chat and so on. With AI it is leaking any away possibly out your phone

try also https://www.affinity.studio/ by Canva, free and run on linux great

yes as most service sleep, and time to spin them up is fast. Moreover some services continuously poll folders and avoid disks to sleep. Letting disks sleep the whole night is a good idea if not in use, this won’t shorten their lifespan.

In here it is .30 pro Kwh

yes and no…

• Idle process are not cheap: some processes avoid all disks to sleep. .
• In Europe electricity is not cheap, a bit more than .30 euro/kwh

yeah i was also using hugo and free hosting with github pages, I recommend Hugo or Jekyl as you can host for free in a github repo.

but think twice, the internet is dying, people use social network 5 to 10h a day, dont read blogs and use AI chat more and more. A blog yes but maybe not public anymore, you feed tons of AI Bots and you compete against AI generated blog and avatar.

this page list a lot more issues https://www.waltercedric.com/posts/leaving/

Good luck!

40 containers behind traefik, but I did just add a new sablier middleware to stop when iddle and start when first requested. Electricity is not cheap for me. But i got lucky to add 64GB RAM in my NAS and 128GB Ram in Desktop last march before prices went crazy

wait spin a docker container with navidrome and another docker with aonsoku web player and call it done or use any subsonic compatible clients. And this work anywhere!

Use xnview which is open source to detect and remove duplicates before importing in Immich. Immich can also detect duplicates but it would to have to create lots of thumbnails for nothing.

If a picture don’t trigger an emotion or you’re not on it, think that you could get it from internet in better quality.

Cleaning is important and will help to keep backup tidy.

I don’t like personally to import in Immich, I use external library. Yes a pain in the ass to make folders but if Immich disappear, I won’t be locked in there.