I feel like there’s a lot of information missing here. VLANs operate at OSI layer 2, and Immich connects to its ML server via IP in layer 3. It could talk to a remote server in Ecuador over the Internet, so the layer 2 configuration is irrelevant.

What you have is an issue of routing IP packets between subnets. You just need to set up a rule on your router to allow the Immich server on the Internet-facing IP subnet to connect to the correct port(s) for the ML server on the private subnet. Or maybe use the router’s port-forwarding feature. Lacking further information about the setup, I have to be vague here. In any case, it’s conceptually the same as punching a hole in the firewall to let IP packets from an Immich server in Ecuador get to the ML server on your private subnet, except that the server is not in Ecuador.

This is madness, but since this is a hobby project and not a production server, there is a way:

• Shrink the filesystems on the existing disks to free up as much space as possible, and shrink their partitions.
• Add a new partition to each of the three disks, and make a RAID5 volume from those partitions.
• Move as many files as possible to the new RAID5 volume to free up space in the old filesystems.
• Shrink the old filesystems/partitions again.
• Expand each RAID component partition one at a time by removing it from the array, resizing it into the empty space, and re-adding it to the array, giving plenty of time for the array to rebuild.
• Move files, shrink the old partitions, and expand the new array partitions as many times as needed until all the files are moved.

This could take several days to accomplish, because of the RAID5 rebuild times. The less free space, the more iterations and the longer it will take.

If you can assign a second IP address to the network interface, then just do so, and bind the docker container to one, and Adguard Home to the other. Otherwise, the reverse proxy based on the server name is the way.

It always had those dependencies, they’re part of the base desktop system. It’s just that the Chromium package from the unstable branch depends on packages from the unstable branch. The unstable versions got updated so they are no longer the same as the stable packages, and apt has to uninstall the stable versions of them to install the new unstable versions.

According to the ConnectBot issue tracker, it’s not possible to retrieve the private key that it created. You’ll have to make a new key pair, and share the new public key with tildes. The keys are randomly-generated, so the new pair will be different, regardless of whether you use the same password.

Careful, too many packages on one drive becomes unstable, and may collapse into a singularly— technological, astrophysical, or worse, both!

Seriously, though, it’s fine. The trend these days is to isolate network services/apps, each in its own virtual server/container, for security reasons. If that service gets breached by hackers, or the configuration breaks, no other services are affected. A lot of installs, each with only the minimum packages for one service, is bound to bring down the average package count.

A user workstation is bound to have many more packages installed. Install what you need and prosper.

Gotcha. As usual with Linux, there are lots of ways to crack the nut. I would be inclined to go with the built-in option, in this case. Less likely to break.

That’s odd. It does not lock the local user out on Ubuntu, and allows simultaneous use.

I believe that Linux Mint supports RDP, built in. You just enable it in the System Settings. Is that not workable?

This question has really got me thinking about the old days! I thought that it was looking into Debian Linux when trying to repurpose some old IBM PS/2 machines at work, because there were rumors of patchsets for the Linux kernel to support the MicroChannel Architecture bus and ESDI drives. But now I remember that it was actually GeekGadgets, a Unix environment for Amiga based around the ixemul.library. That’s where I first read the GPL, and admired its legal Jiu-Jitsu of using copyright laws to ensure freedom.

I’ve never been a Windows user on my own machines as a result. I just went from Amiga, to FreeBSD, to Ubuntu.

Hey, all you folks ought to get together and publish a guide to writing good FOSS documentation,