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MacOS and “unreleased” disk space weirdness
Mac Studio with 512 GB of space and yet somehow almost 300 GB was unaccounted for? Often I leave the system running (it sips power at idle and is mostly solar powered) and mostly don’t install apps just run various terminal and text apps, nothing terribly heavy. Well, maybe local AI plays a part? Also…
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MemTest PSA, Run MemTest before NAS OS Setup
Pretty much the title. TrueNAS installed, ran, and mostly worked on RAM that threw so many errors in MemTest I’m surprised the system posted at all. TrueNAS, being ZFS based, uses RAM heavily for caching, reading, and writing so data was getting corrupted in weird ways with confusing errors. What made it hard to pin…
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Nevermind, Immich on a shared N150, 70k files in 1 week
With 70k+ photos and movies coming into immich; getting all new thumbnails, and organization I thought it would be months before the limited Intel N150 would finish processing but it may just be weeks. In fact, the library was usable almost overnight. Around 20k iCloud files came in about 2-3 hours. It seems like the…
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Jellyfin for Music so far…
While I bought a perpetual Plex license ages ago, I haven’t tried it for music yet. I opted to try Jellyfin first out of curiosity and see how easy it would be to get going in about 1 hour. From installing Jellyfin (on a non-LTS Ubuntu) to adding media, installing an iOS client, and playing…
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Running Immich on an Intel N150 with 70k+ photos is, maybe, not advisable
Revisited: Great results here! Another back and forth between software options this time Immich versus Photopixel. Photopixel was, fine? But not great. So I’ve set up the Docker Compose for Immich and pointed it to 2 external libraries to start digesting. While it is surely pulling everything in it is doing so slowly. Nearly all…
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Moving MacOS local iOS backups for maximizing space
Ditching all cloud services is not easy considering just how convenient so many of them are and how much space some of these services can take. Backing up a phone and tablet, particularly and iPhone and iPad Pro can take as multiple terabytes and often Mac’s have smaller primary storage. (I wonder why Apple…) Fortunately…