I have till 8 feb to extricate myself from google for email and storage.

@alex I litteraly have a spare pi5 sitting on the hobby electronics desk behind me.......
I sense a plan hatching!

@pearofdoom like purely from a "I know where this is" thing it's handy but also it has another often overlooked upside.

If things really go to shit, you can probably travel and get the Pi/HDD/etc. and bring it home to do a faster restore than over the internet ever would likely be.

@pearofdoom @alex I'm running almost this exact setup with Pi4s. Happy to discuss & learn from each other

immich has superceded google photos for me.
google doesn't support drive desktop app on linux so their sync fabric is no longer of use.
I'm wanting to disassociate from US based big tech.

@pearofdoom made all the harder by them not allowing the complete removal of their "upload by default Photos app" (least on Apple devices). Can only "Remove from Home Screen"

They need to be forced to allow you to use another Photos app as the default.

@Phil_Tanner @pearofdoom @alex Pretty close to my set-up.
Although I use a Pi4 for it, because a 5 is overkill

@Firesphere @Phil_Tanner @alex pi5 is currently my spare and the parents were keen to get a dns ad block setup ASAP

@pearofdoom @Firesphere @Phil_Tanner win win

@alex @pearofdoom @Phil_Tanner I run them separately, but for no good reason.
I personally prefer Wireguard-UI or something like that for a WG setup, instead of PiVPN, but either way, it's not too complex, and a Pi4 can easily handle wg/pi-hole/nas on a single device.

4tb usb hdd acquired.
now which OS to flash on this pi 5?

@Firesphere @pearofdoom @Phil_Tanner sits here with envy behind CGNAT

rpios (debian) provisioned and hardware deployed.
now to do the hard bit and setup backup shedules and de-dupe my archive

@pearofdoom let borg or similar do the deduping, go lazy mode