Doesn’t need to be touch for that

I’m renting a Mazda and it seems really tame on that front. Buttons for everything… There’s one screen that can do Android Auto/Carplay but it’s NOT touchscreen. You have a big knob down with the gear selector that you can rotate and push in/up/down/left/right to use it. But no car controls except radio tuning on it. There’s a separate knob for volume (and on-wheel controls).

Every one of them can, AFAIK. I have a second cheap used phone I picked up to play with Ubuntu Touch and it has a system called Waydroid for this. Not quite seamless and you’ll want to use native when possible but it does work.

SailfishOS, PostmarketOS, Mobian, etc all also can use Waydroid or a similar thing

Well how’d it work out after that

I use my own [email protected] (well actually it’s last-net.com because I couldn’t secure any better domain. It’s too common.)

Never had an issue.

Yesssssssss BUT the Google Apps that are critical for most users are not. Plus in reality the devices are loaded full of firmware and drivers that aren’t open source, like the modem for cellular connectivity.

Mild tbh

OP most likely works in a SCIF - where such restrictions are pretty common.

TL;DR OP is a fed or fed contractor

Do you think an FM radio is enough to be banned from a SCIF?

Awesome news. Lemmy has felt kinda empty and sad lately without them

I just have a script that checks my IP every few minutes and changes the DNS record as necessary

Go ahead post some pro-genocide/Israeli stuff around lemmy see where it gets ya

Good for them honestly

It has been since 2019 but before that it was bash.

macOS is UNIX, certified UNIX actually.

But I mean, if someone had the merest impression of macOS and was very familiar with Linux and never bothered to look any further then I’d understand. Maybe they only played around with macOS a little and saw the terminal app had bash and most all the familiar tools as on Linux. It’s not hard to see why they might’ve thought it’s Linux based.

Probably. Same way your screen works through a screen protector.

I’m not looking to become a sysadmin

And that’s fine and understandable. But I don’t think that Immich is for you. It’s not consumer-grade software. It’s a piece of Linux server software that requires occasional maintenance and administration. We haven’t seen a breaking update in a while but Immich does occasionally release updates where things will break if you don’t dig in to the config files and reconfigure it.

If you’re self hosting then you could just copy all the files from your server onto an external drive. I have to say that’s not a great backup solution though, and you should learn more about administration of Linux servers so that when things break you can fix them. I wouldn’t rely on it as a safe solution to your photos otherwise.

Are you paying for Immich somewhere? Then you’d have to trust the administrator to back your data up. I had assumed you were self hosting and by managed services I meant like Google Photos, or indeed someone else’s Immich setup.

You should have a backup solution for your server that should cover this, without that you should probably stick with managed photo backup services.