You are better served searching up on it by looking for networking guides.

Rudimentary it could be called a middleman facilitating the connection between two hosts (server and client)

I’d like to be able to disallow any app not explicitly granted permission to use any method to determine my location

Yep. That’s what ai want.

Reverse proxy for unimportant, VPN for important

My scale is ±5 servers. And of them only the ones that are critical like my AD/DHCP/DNS or my backup servers are actually static.

I’d peobably get an aneurysm seeing your network ;), /j
But if it’s tidy and documented, more power to you :)

Again, not much to monetize from that:

At worst they could hack my phone. But then we’d have a different kind of problem.

Hm…Still so.
It should be its fully own permission to allow even if it belongs both to location and networking.

Whoops. Thanks for pointing it out. Read it as a fact not as an example.

If it makes him/her happy and fulfilled?
Who am I to judge who should be liked.

Now if my child would be dismissive or abusive against them, then I’d be not so chill anymore.
Everyone (aside from abusive or exploitative humans) should be treated as an equal and with a respect for their existence.
So hitting a homeless person is a no-no.
Hitting Trumpp is allowed. :)

You can set up immich to use external libraries.
It can ingest your current library without changing anything in the folder structure and it will be alongside it.
Just make sure to check the external library configuration and immichs documentation before doing anything.

Also make sure you have a backup :p That doesnt hurt either way

What a question… :D

Anyway: YES.

I’d go as far as to say, it’s infamous state of being fragile as fuck, every update is a breaking change and needing to read every changelog before updating is a bit outdated.
But they are still working on it quite a bit.

This is not a question of software (that answer will be yes, because you can then easily switch away from synology once it’s becoming bad) but instead a question of ability fo install it on your currently available hardware.
If you are able to utilize docker containers to the satisfaction of immichs guide? You should.

The machine-learning face detection and picture search is amazing.
I have searched for “Shelf with black boxes” in german (the default context model is only english but they have multi language models) and it found the picture of the shelf with my black tea containers.
Or searching “food” brings up pictures of food and dishes, or “moon” of the moon. Honestly I am still amazed :)
(I also like the geo-tagged pictures on a map feature)

Poject Hail Mary, The Martian
Both by Andy Weir.

Also M.O.N.A. and S.I.N.O.N. by Dan T. Sehlberg

The books by Andy Weir are hard sci-fi books. Very grounded in physical/realistic expectations but with a sprinkle of “the future”.

The books by Dan Sehlberg are IT thriller-like novels.
Basically something like current ‘Neuralink’.
The first books plot is about a scientist developing a brain-computer interface enabling the user to visit cyberspace in a sort of advanced VR like world but full on inside instead of just goggles you put on.
His wife trials it, visits her job sites web page during a cyber attack on the jobs IT-infrastructure, get’s in contact with the malware there and brings the digital virus inside her to the real world.
Now the digital malware/virus has become a biological one. The scientist now wants to find the cure for the illness.

Doing it that way is a sure way of loosing your mind at a certain scale.
Don’t do that.
Ensure your DHCP and DNS work as expected and save your headache for the future when you want to expand the homelab to something like https certification or IPv6.
Static IPs should be used sparingly. Like for servers.

What a bs permission to have been invented.
It should be it’s own special network permission or something but what the hell does that have to do with the general meaning of “location”?.
Just allow the app to see what SSID I am connected to if I want to allow that

Sry for having to endure my rant

Location is such a weird permission…
For example the permission is also needed to find local devices via bluetooth (eyeroll)…
And even then, local device finding is a sub-permission of location…

Source for that?
I don’t like that a software with access to my files has logic for this behavior.
I use syncthing as a backup-tool so it would be, let’s say bad if it should happen.

Wouldnt that also result in inbreeding or is there enough diversity to this being of no concern?

the sounding community seems to leak again…

Well reasoned response.
Thanks :)

Probably inspired by it.
It’s a neat feature :)