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And why can’t university IT set up the server? No offense but you’re a nobody asking us, also nobodies, how to set up some sort of a funky server on the university network, meanwhile the university pays people to do this for a living.

Where will the server actually be? Will it be in a secure location where only authorized personnel can physically access the machine or will it be behind the trash can in the cafeteria where anyone can access it?

Since you will lose access to it once it’s set up who will monitor the system? Who turns it on in case it somehow gets shut down? Who sets up backups and does rollbacks if something breaks?

What happens to the hardware when research project is over?

To me it all smells like something the IT department should set up. They already know the best practices. They also know whatever security guidelines they need to follow. They will have monitoring systems in place so they could admin the system instead of leaving it without an actual administrator. And they’re probably the ones decommissioning the hardware when the research project is over.

My suggestion is to leave it to the people who are getting paid to do this. It’s one thing to know how to set up a home server on your home network, it’s a different thing to set up a server on an enterprise network.

It’s hard to say what is best. It comes down to what you’re trying to achieve. For example Tailscale and Wireguard are both VPN-s, but the purpose of those two is to set up your own personal VPN so that you could securely access devices and services that are available only in your personal VPN. The difference between Tailscale and Wireguard is basically the monetary cost of having an easy setup vs the complexity of setting it up yourself. Wireguard is an open source protocol and software that allows you to set up your own VPN if you have the technical know-how how to set it up. Tailscale is built ontop of Wireguard so at its core it does what Wireguard does, but it offers easier setup at the cost of asking for money if your network starts expanding beyond the free tier.

And then there’s “VPN” which are actually VPN service providers. Some of them allow setting up your own personal VPN but more often than not they offer VPN tunneling where you securely connect your device to their VPN server to route your traffic through their servers. The purpose of that is to hide your online activity. For example if your country really cracks down on illegal torrents you pretty much have to torrent through a VPN. And another purpose is to circumvent regional laws or trademarks. For example VPN usage in the UK went up in response to the Online Safety Act because a VPN lets you circumvent those laws. And another example is if a streaming service doesn’t offer a show in your country but offers it in another country and your VPN provider has a server there you can tunnel yourself into that server and you get to see your show because technically you’re in that country.

Depending on what you’re planning on doing with your home server you might need both kind of “VPN”.

Exposing services to the web is a huge topic with a lot to consider. I could probably write an essay on this topic, but the short answer is that Wireguard is sufficient, however the setup can be pretty complex. If you have a low amount of users you can try Tailscale. It’s built ontop of Wireguard but it is much easier to set up and is free up to 3 users, but you can probably attach more users if you add all their devices under one user, which is probably fine if you trust those people and you’re going to use it only for Immich.

I would recommend starting with something simple you can understand and then look into alternatives when you get a better understanding of what your actual needs are and where your current solution starts lacking.

Since you seem to be testing a lot of different things I’m going to throw out a lot of different ideas and maybe something helps. Worst case you have to start rummaging through logs.

The most basic idea is that if its your home server it should be available on your home network. That means, unless you have some custom configurations, the IP has to be something starting with 192.168. If it’s not starting with that you’re probably way off. Someone assumed your IP starts with a 5 so it’s definitely worth checking out. And a small sidenote, in case you plan on exposing Immich to the web definitely follow their suggestions.

What else you mentioned was that you had installed Proxmox. If you’re still using Proxmox VE there are helper scripts to make your life easier. There’s a script for Immich that sets up an LXC with Immich services. It works without issues right out the box, but assigning a different upload location takes a bit tinkering. And just as a security advice, always open up the scripts and understand what they do because you should never run scripts you got from the web that you do not 100% understand.

You also mentioned docker (compose) which the recommended way to set it up according to Immich documentation. The official docker compose doesn’t seem to have anything special in it, so it should start a container on port 2283 on whatever your servers IP is. Also check if the container is running without issues when you start it up. I don’t know what you use to manage containers but a simple “docker ps” in terminal should be enough to check that the container is running and the port is properly mapped.

I don’t know what you’re running the docker container in as you mentioned different operating systems, but just in case its worth going through ufw (or whatever Firewall your system might be using) to check if there aren’t any rules that are shutting traffic down by default. There shouldn’t be any rules but if you’re stumped it’s one of those things to cross off the list.

And it’s also worthwhile to check your router, that there aren’t any firewall rules in the router that are blocking LAN traffic for whatever reason. Again shouldn’t be any in the first place, but should be crossed off just in case. And if you’re already checking the router you can also check what IP your the router has assigned to your home server to make sure you’re trying the correct IP (and you might want to consider giving it a static IP if you plan on using IP address to connect).

And final note, I’m not sure if its relevant or not but maybe try accessing it through a web browser before trying to access through the app? I remember there being some sort of a first time admin setup, but I don’t know if that was also available through the app.

Maybe something from this list of random suggestions helps you.

And what happens to the heat? Heat can’t just magically disappear which means water can’t cool without heat being able to dissipate somewhere. So it would have to dissipate heat into the dome. What happens to the dome if you keep pumping hot vapor into the dome? It heats up. If it heats up the water vapor stops cooling and the entire cooling system stops working.

I’m not saying it couldn’t work in theory, I’m saying it doesn’t work in practice because the dome would have insanely big, maybe the size of small nation big.

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You fucking donkey.

Next time read your source instead of believing you can’t be wrong because you’re too technologically inept to use the fucking find function.

I’m done putting up with your aggressive bullshit.

I didn’t lie about anything. The image made two statements. First statement is that dogs can identify us as humans. That statement is irrelevant to this discussion because I didn’t address it all. The second statement is that cats view humans as “terrible incompetent cats”.

The person you replied to asked for a source about those claim but they didn’t clarify which statement they wanted a source for. Now asking source for the second statement can be interpreted three ways. The person asked for a source for cats viewing as cats, cats viewing us as “terrible incompetent” or the previous two together that cats view us as terrible incompetent cats.

You gave a source for that statement but you also didn’t clarify which part the source verifies. So taking the 3 interpretations:

• If the person was asking the source for cats viewing us as cats your source is fine.
• If the person was asking the source for cats viewing us as “terrible incompetent” your source directly disproves that statement. Therefor your source is no fine.
• If the person was asking the source for cats viewing us as cats and as “terrible incompetent” your source is true on the first part but false on the second part which means your source is not fine. If you can’t understand why go back to school to learn classical logic.

Two out of three interpretations means your source is wrong. Just because you want to believe you only addressed that one interpretation where your source is right doesn’t mean you actually did because you never specified which part of the statement you gave a source for. How are we supposed to know that was what you meant?

To put it as plainly as I can put it, had you said “This source only shows that cats view us as cats” I would’ve had no issue with your comment. You left your source open to interpretation and 2 of the 3 interpretations meant you were wrong.

Now this conversation had been over many comments ago if you had just gone “I didn’t think it could be misinterpreted, my bad.” but you continue to demand you were never wrong in the first place. That is why you are getting downvoted and I’m not getting downvoted. You being an insufferable asshole who can’t properly express themselves also doesn’t help. And just to be very clear, I haven’t downvoted you once because unlike you I don’t actually care about upvotes or downvotes.

I already said this conversation is over, your unnecessarily aggressive and rude comment got removed and you still come back with not one but two comments. Do your mental health a service and log off for the next week because you’re acting like a nutcase.

I’m just going to ignore the absolute nonsense you just wrote and say that it’s not my problem if you’re incapable of acknowledging a mistake. Go have a day and don’t bother me.

The image says that. The other person asked for a source for that statement and you gave sources without correcting the terrible incompetent part. I think it’s a fair interpretation that you implied it.

I added that part specifically because it’s so obvious. It’s so obvious we don’t even think about all the fine motor movements we can do with excellent precision that no other animal in the world could even do.

From the very Nat Geo article you linked:

I’ve read articles where you’ve said cats think of us as big, stupid cats. Is that accurate?

No. In the book [I say] that cats behave toward us in a way that’s indistinguishable from [how] they would act toward other cats. They do think we’re clumsy: Not many cats trip over people, but we trip over cats.

But I don’t think they think of us as being dumb and stupid, since cats don’t rub on another cat that’s inferior to them.

They might not be able to understand that we’re a completely different species but they do understand that we’re not your average cat (another evidence of that is that cats generally don’t meow between each other but they do meow with humans) and they definitely don’t view us as terrible or incompetent. They view us as clumsy because based on how they see the world we are in general pretty clumsy.

Bit off topic but another interesting fact is that if we factor in fine motor skills we’re the least clumsiest animal on the planet. Cats have excellent gross motor skills but you don’t see them threading a needle. And very few animals could thread a needle because, well for a multitude of reasons but primarily because most animals simply can’t get that level of precision out of their limbs or mouth or trunk or whatever they would have to use. But for us that is so easy we don’t even question the level of complexity and precision we’re showcasing. Gross motor skills looks like it might bring us down but we’re actually very adaptive when it comes to gross motor skills (see parkour, rock climbing or just gymnastics). We simply don’t spend time developing those skills because most of us never need it. We don’t need to climb over fallen trees or crawl under bushes because if a lot of people need to use that route we just pave a road.

Obviously Hamas is supplying Canada with fentanyl and Canada is sending it across the border with those filthy American immigrants who then sell fentanyl to real Americans, you know the white kind of American. You don’t need to be a conservative crackhead to see that, you just need to be a conservative.