SayCyberOnceMore

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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Ansible is an automation tool to setup systems to a known desirable end state.

    TBH, for a single device, it’s overkill, but you seem like someone who keeps good notes and has some custom files to copy across… you could convert your setup note into an Ansible file, and it will also copy over your custom config files.

    For Ansible you define the desired outcome and it does “all” (kinda) the work for you… so… say you want Apache, MariaDB and PHP, it doesn’t matter if half are installed already, or not, or their dependencies - you just say:

    Do an update Install packages: A B C Copy my config files over Start the services Relax

    Yep, it’ll take 10 times as long to get it working up front, but the day you want to duplicate it / start on a fresh Pi / VM, it’s all there for you.

    I use it to setup all my Pi Zeros thr same way (they’re doing BLE presence detection) and for their regular updates

    I’ve also got some VMs setup that way

    But… I tried it on a laptop and as it’s a single device I just ended up setting it up manually and now the ansible script is woefully out of date… just some balanced feedback.






  • I commented elsewhere here, but E2E encryption is just between the server and the end user (ie a VPN)

    You’re thinking about encryption at rest, on the storage.

    Immich would have to setup a whole new design to be able to store all the metadata on a per-user basis… but… you could have multiple Immich instances if you were to host it for your friends, but I think we’re drifting into “why bother” now…














  • I think you’ve read me wrong there.

    First up, I presume you searched for other posts like this one? If not, a pinned post might’ve made that easier for you to get started (ie Mint)

    Second, the pinned post doesn’t become a final answer, it’s a starting point to add to the discussion, (ie you tried Mint, but didn’t like X, Y & Z)

    From my pov there are a lot of posts asking this same question and this was simply a reflection on how we could improve the community… and your experience.