Or if something has the word “mountian” it’ll come up.

Sometimes it’s easier to just redownload in a format that’s more usabe than trying to make do with what you got. Obviously there’s a bunch of reasons why redownloading could not be a valid option.

If you can’t configure Docker, reverse proxies, and Yaml files, you shouldn’t be self-hosting

Yes, absolutely.

Configure Docker

if you cannot run docker compose up or understand the basics of what it’s doing, you should not be self hosting. Yes, Docker can be difficult to troubleshoot but you need to understand where your data is being stored and generally self hosting projects using Docker are easy to set up.

reverse proxies

Implying exposing your server to the Internet. Yes. 100%. If you do not know what you’re doing, you should not. This is dangerous to your machine and to your data.

Yaml files

This is a plain text file. You can open it with Notepad or your operating system’s equivalent. Editing a text file to enter some default parameters is a low bar and if you can’t edit a text file, you’re going to get caught up in some other part of self hosting

Immich is a fantastic photo backup service that is a replacement for Google Photos both in form and function.

There’s a demo at demo.immich.app to see what it looks like and what you can do with it. As far as self hosting stuff goes it’s relatively easy to setup. Work through the setup guide and see if you can understand that to get it running.

What it will do is make it available on any devices on your local (WiFi or wired) network. You will need to open a port on the Linux box’s firewall, but that step is easy and I can show you how to do that on Mint. Then you’ll be able to connect to it from your phone or any other devices (or right from a browser right on the server).

If you have any questions feel free to ask. I have a few things running on a Mint server I have.

Yours is faster haha. It’s the 7100T which is the 35w low power model that the Lenovo mini PCs came with. The only advantage is it has decent video decode hardware so it can handle media transcoding better.

My i3 7100 is about to get a workout

Edit: did 15,000 photos overnight so not bad at all

Depends on where you are in the world but Lenovo mini PCs and eBay will probably cover your needs.

I just pulled an old Android phone out of the closet and messing around with Termux and I’m seriously impressed. I had a file server up in my network within a minute. All without root too!

Depends on your ISP. In my case my IP hasn’t changed in the two years I’ve been with them so it was easy as setting up port forwarding in my router. Took a minute or two.