My feelings exactly. This was not politics leveraged to advance science. This was science abused to advance politics.

This, but with DAVx⁵ as a CardDAV client app on Android.

If by “people sorting” you mean “facial recognition” - well, it should “just work”. You may, in the admin backend, go to the jobs section and manually force it to start another scan for missing faces.

That said, it will currently only do facial recognition on the faces in the photos your account owns. If you’re using partner sharing (e.g. with your spouse), then you will have separate facial recognition data (only done on your photos) and your spouse will have their own facial recognition data (done on the photos owned by them). Bottom line: facial recognition data is not “shared”. If your spouse “owns” all the family photos in your immich, this is why you only see the coworker meme faces and not your family.

The same is true for memories.

The situation is unsatisfactory at the moment, but I’ve talked to the devs and it’s on their roadmap, so this will be addressed in an upcoming release.

Music isn’t expensive to self-host; 1 min of music cost you roughly 1MB of space, which means your playlist of 7k tracks (assumed average length: 5 mins) clocks in at around 35 GB of storage space. So just start collecting.

As for your other request. I’m not too familiar with Spotify, but a net search yielded this. I cannot speak to the legality if any of the solutions recommended there, and if they still work (the thread is 2 years old).

I’m still not sure what it is you’re asking. If by “finding” you mean

• finding sources for your music: search engines are your friend. Your tastes are likely not so exotic they will exist nowhere else on the net.
• procuring the media themselves: borrow CDs from the library / friends or buy and rip them. Buy digital files. Procure them in… other ways.
• accessing the files you own to your devices: USB / cloud transfer. Self-hosting and streaming to your devices (see my OP above).

If you have really never assembled a library of music you truly own, start now, and start small. Don’t let the large number Spotify gives you trick you into believing you need that. Realistically, you’re not listening to a fraction of the 7k songs it gives you all day every day. Focus on the albums/artists you really cannot live without, and once that is settled, branch out to the more exotic parts of your playlist.

Do you think it’s possible for companies or individuals to not comply with court ordered surveillance and search warrants?

Companies can’t, no. That’s precisely my point. Hence your argument that iOS is more “secure” than any other bar Graphene is disingenuous. iOS is developed by a company which can be (and likely already has been) pressured into compromising its users on behalf of three-letter agencies. The NSA slides are strong evidence of that.

Large collectives of devs spread out all over the world, however, can withstand such pressures since they’re hard to get a hold of. The developers of OSs such as Graphene, Debian or Lineage could easily resist such attempts, simply because they’re not a legal entity incorporated inside a single jurisdiction.

You’re correct in saying that Apple is “selling” privacy and security (as in: marketing, pinky-promising). They may be selling that story, but I ain’t buying it.

There’s good reason to suspect that it’s very terrible from its privacy and security perspective.

If you remember you remember I guess.

How is iOS - a proprietary OS owned by a big tech company - second in your list?

I don’t like Ansible, other tools can be easier to use. But I don’t want to recommend something concrete.

Which ones do you like to work with? (Even though it’s not a recommendation ;) I’ve only dabbled in Ansible so far and found it overkill for most of the things I do, but maybe one of yours isn’t?

But as a result you’ll have a self-documented configuration-as-a-code that will allow you to scale your setup as you need. Reproducing something won’t require reading your notes, remembering your actions etc.

Until you realise that

• you don’t really need to scale a homelab that much
• if something breaks, you just want to quickly fix it manually because “doing the Ansible” is more of a pain
• now idempotency and documentation-as-code is out of the window. ;)

(I’m being tongue-in-cheek here. I don’t doubt this may work for you, but it takes much more discipline than I have.)

If by “getting” music you mean “self-host stuff you already own”: Navidrome is an obvious choice, with Tempus for Android clients. It’s ridiculously low on resources, rich in features and quite pretty.

Nice setup! I particularly like the kitchenowl deployment - it’s such an amazing tool and relatively unknown.

One suggestion: the title header says “Family homepage”, yet the page contains admin tools that none other than you will ever use. I noticed that all this “admin clutter” was so off-putting that it kept others from actually using the dashboard. I’ve therefore created another homepage instance that showcases user-facing services only. It makes the UI much cleaner - and users more likely to actually find the services they may be looking for.

YOU MIGHT WANT TO GET THAT CAPS LOCK KEY FIXED, MATE!