I always used fingertip with small hands and never thought it was weird. I just figured out maybe it's because I played piano growing up? It feels more natural to have a C shape with my hand and space between the mouse and my palm.

I would suggest an Intel N100 mini PC if you are planning to transcode video files with Plex. Intel Quick Sync performs better than AMD for media transcoding.

All good recs so far but haven't seen anyone mention Infernal Affairs.

Not sure if you're aware, but Immich has a duplicate finder

I have a Miband 6 and it's pretty nice. The advantage over bigger smart watches is the battery lasts like 2 weeks more per charge.

I'm running a mini-PC with the N100, 12GB RAM, and 2x18TB mirrored drives on ZFS and it seems to work well.

Dockge for docker compose stacks. Glances for system resource usage because it has a Homepage widget.

One thing I would do differently is setup LDAP and OIDC so you can use the same authentication credentials for different apps (at least the ones that support them). I use LLDAP and Authelia for this purpose.

Denture cleaning tablets work great for me.

I migrated using the CLI tool to upload before external libraries came out, and it worked well for me. I think I would have preferred to use external libraries for things like my wedding photos, so there aren't duplicates on my server, but it's not a big deal.

The Thelio looks awesome, but it seems overkill for what to do and spend. I would probably do DIY if I wanted something with the specs of the Thelio.

French colonization of Haiti was particularly horrible because of the mass importation of slaves and extremely poor treatment of slaves on plantations. But Haiti's poor development is also the result of many post-independence events. France forced Haiti to pay massive reparations. The US intervened in Haiti several times to prop up US-backed leaders who did little to develop Haiti.

Zotero + WebDAV for me too (I use the Caddy WebDAV module).

Yeah, the mini PCs look great. How do you have your storage set up?

Is your NAS in an old tower PC?

I think I had the misconception that USB was slower than SATA, but USB-C is actually just as fast. And anything USB 3.0+ should be faster than 1 gigabit ethernet I guess?

Yeah, the power prices in my city are really high (USA). They're even higher than Hawaii, from what I've heard. That's why I'm leaning towards the mini PCs and SBC options, even if used server/desktop parts have better performance for the price.

I have a Terramaster 4-bay DAS

I am running my disks as mirrors.

I wasn't sure if it was AI or not. According to the description on GitHub:

Utilizes state-of-the-art algorithms to identify duplicates with precision based on hashing values and FAISS Vector Database using ResNet152.

Isn't ResNet152 a neural network model? I was careful to say neural network instead of AI or machine learning.

The context cache doesn't take up too much memory compared to the model. The main benefit of having a lot of VRAM is that you can run larger models. I think you're better off buying a 24 GB Nvidia card from a cost and performance standpoint.