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Advice Requested: 2006 pc upgrade

Honestly, anything you spend on that PC is a waste. You can get a 5 year old computer for under $100 and move your updated parts over.

Search Amazon for a Lenovo Thinkcentre, Dell optiplex or anything with an Intel Core i7-4770. This is by far the cheapest route.

Alternatively, if you are looking for the adventure of getting back into PC building, check out the build guides at pcpartpicker.com.

https://pcpartpicker.com/guide/

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Charging for tech support

You have to price your labor at the value of the service. The cost of the laptop is irrelevant, as is the fact that you haven't charged in the past.

Your rate is reasonable for a one off business software migration to a new machine. I'd invoice for 2.5-3 hours since the labor most likely involved a lot of research and trial and error, with the idea that you will do more support for them in the future.

If there are no fix-it shops in your area, you could ask for a testimonial and use it as cred for doing more support. Don't lower your hourly rate, instead be more realistic with the total hours. You are going to get better with experience, charge the hours now so your customers have the right expectations.

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Using Immich in combination with NAS permissions

You can configure samba to handle the permissions, but immich will need to connect to the user's share using their password (no ideal)

In smb.conf for each user's share

[user_media]
   path = /path/to/user/media
   valid users = username, immich
   force user = username  # This makes all files.  appear as owned by the user
   force group = media
   create mask = 0660
   directory mask = 0770

Alternatively you can use setguid with your media group:

chmod g+s /path/to/media/dirs
chown -R :media /path/to/media/dirs
chmod 2770 /path/to/media/dirs. (2 = SetGID, 770 = rwx for user and group)
  • Any new file created by Immich will automatically belong to the media group
  • The SetGID bit ensures files inherit the parent directory's group
  • All users (including Immich) can read/write files as long as they're in the media group
  • Individual users still "own" their files (UID stays as the original user when they upload via Samba)

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