I’ve come to the conclusion that nextcloud is probably the best single Google replacement. “Old hardware” is a pretty broad definition, as I’ve still got Zip disks kicking around. But more than likely, you can run Nextcloud AIO reasonably well. The more RAM the better for sure. But you do get an online office, document storage and sharing, calendar, contacts, tasks (to replace Google Keep), text and video chat, picture storage, etc. Doing all of that really well can take a beefier machine, but keep things in perspective, be patient and you can at least get it going to see if you want to expand in the future.

My preference is paying for Unraid and using spaceinvaderone’s Nextcloud AIO package and accompanying video tutorial is the way to go. Unraid isn’t free, but I highly, highly recommend paying for it as a platform. I feel like it still allows some challenges in getting things set up but in a more fun way to reduce frustrations. And Unraid just does so much.

I’m doing that as well (mostly done except some tinkering and optimizations). It’s my third time setting up nextcloud, but this time it’s for real.

In my experience, that’s just true of all software. There’s a couple of high end InDesign plugins I use for work. Aside from that, I’m on my own.

As I understand and have been using it, you don’t need to turn off the tailscale connection. It’s only going to affect how any individual IP address gets routed. In this case, whatever the IP is of Immich. If a phone connected to your tailscale node (phone is anywhere in the world) wants 192.168.1.50 for example, tailscale redirects that request to the other end of the tailscale VPN which happens to be at your home instead of whatever network the phone is connected to. Any non defined IPs just go where they normally would.

Once I changed the default model, immich search became amazing. I want to show it off to people but alas, way too many NSFW pics in my library. I would create a second “clean” version to show off to people but I’ve been too lazy.

I went with Willow related naming.

My main server and NAS is Madmartigan. Proxmox server is Willow. Headless gaming machine is Sorsha. Bedroom/office laptop is Elora Danan Living room laptop is High Aldwin Then two raspberry Pi’s named Rool and Franjean.

I’m not even into Willow that much, I just wanted to find a world of characters I liked.

He helped me so much. I learned an absolute ton because he gave me an easy and safe path to explore. RIP.